Palace Arts Center — Attraction in Grapevine

The historic Palace Arts Center is a beautiful 1940's performing arts theatre that is very well built, preserved, and fantastically maintained. For its age, it looks good. I'm glad to see the venue is still in operation and utilized for various artistic and ceremonial activities. I'm grateful I had a chance to see the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie for the first time here. (Yes, I know, I'm a little late, 1981 was a super busy year for me as I was just coming into my own, and I never got a chance to fully see it til now. Lol). The place has a lovely old school vibe that pays homage to historical moments like a museum. The open seating was comfortable (nice balcony views), the acoustics were good, and the host was great offering a great introduction. The schedule seems to be consistently full with events (live performances and classic movies), but if I get a chance to visit again, I will take Brian's advice that the Right Place Is On The Floor/Ground seating since I'm very sensitive to activity and vibrations of others around me and like to immerse myself into a movie. (In the balcony, the slightest footsteps can be felt and evenmore so if children are running and when they are tapping their feet on the chair in front of them.) Lastly, I appreciated the affordable concessions (popcorn with seasoning options, candy bars and treats, bottled water, fountain soda with collectable/souvenir cups. (I don't know why I was craving a nice milkshake - maybe because it was hot hot outside.) Palace, I Want You Around (Aa), so I hope your rare venue is appreciated and valued for many more years to come by Dallas Fort Worth/Grapevine locals and visitors, young and...

Gorgeous building, on historic Grapevine's main Street and love that they play old movies. The frustrating thing, is the people that are die hard fans of older movies are loud and obnoxious. Not the theatre staff's fault but they also don't do anything to quiet or control the noise level at all whatsoever. During the most recent Star Wars New hope the die hard fans clapped and screamed for every single actor introduction. They booed for Darth Vader and made noise any scene they liked or disliked. It was so difficult to hear anything which made this not enjoyable. For Monty Python it was somewhat better but still the old movies draw out people who have no sense of respect for others trying to watch the movie. This unfortunately means it is going to be hard to return, which sucks because I live right down the road and love the theatre. But no point going if you can't hear and don't love screaming like the obnoxious groups that attend the movies. If you go, I recommend sitting downstairs for the best sound experience and hopefully you won't sit near the...

We took our kids to see a Charlie Brown Christmas and Frosty the Snowman. We loved the theater, staff, and concessions. However, we left during the second movie due to the crowd. It was very busy, which I expected. We showed up early and were able to find seats together. People were saving large groups of seats, but no one showed up to use them and they just stayed empty, which I thought was unfair. We had a family of 6 with a newborn sitting in each others laps in 3 chairs during the movie because they couldn't find seats. There were several screaming babies in the theater, and no one took them to the lobby, they just kept screaming.There were a bunch of empty seats behind us that were reserved by a lady. About 45 minutes in, she had a friend show up with 2 small children. They kept coughing very loudly behind us and should not have been there. We decided to get up and leave. Again, we loved the theater, but it would have been very helpful to have someone assist with finding seats and checking on the crowd in the theater from...