Palace Arts Center

The Monday night before Christmas and the city of Grapevine is full of Christmas cheer, what a lovely surprise! The Palace Theatre shows Christmas movies during the season, I came to see It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) on the big screen. The screen is on the smaller side, but it’s still magical to see the old classics in a theatre. The movies sell out each night, I recommend you plan ahead! Tickets are only $ 6 (: The concession stand has popcorn ranging from $ 1 — $ 4 and soda and candy for $ 1. This is definitely an old school theatre built in 1940 and survived a fire in the 1980s, so adjust your expectations accordingly and enjoy the atmosphere. My only complaint is the movie started 25 minutes late to accommodate all of the late arrivals. It’s a long drive home and 25 minutes makes a difference on a work night. On the plus side, no previews.
Main Street in Grapevine is a holiday destination! Be prepared to drive slow through Main as the theatre is at the end of the street.

The Palace Arts Center encompasses both the actual Palace Arts theatre and the Lancaster theatre. I’d been to the Lancaster in the past as a guest and fell in love with the place. The floors, the brick walls, the copper? Super amazing.
When my husband and I started planning our wedding, we assumed (1) the Lancaster would be fully booked for 2 years and we’d be screwed and (2) it would be so expensive it’d be right off our list.
NOT TRUE! I can’t say anything for how far they’re booked out, but we were offered a couple of dates well within range. It was awesome. Now, at the time, they were changing over their booking system. The coordinators had to check 2 or 3 different systems to ensure a date was available. As such, we got our hopes up that our engagement date (the following year) was open! How cool would that be?! We get a deeply apologetic phone call later stating that date was not available, but they had a date a few weeks after open, 100% for sure. That’s totally fine. We take the date.
I’m super laid back, but still had to send a lot of emails to various vendors– the venue being no exception. Frank was quick to respond and never once rolled his eyes at how many emails I had to send.
Our guests loved the venue and we had a great time.
Have an event coming up? Wedding? Big birthday party? Family reunion? I highly recommend the Lancaster!

We had a fun family night out, at the Historic Palace Theater seeing the Princess Bride on the «Big Screen» for the first time. No one got mad or gave us dirty looks when we quoted our favorite parts right along with the movie. It seem very child friendly, and parents where being respectful of those that didn’t have children. Seating is a little «old school» tight, which to me added to the charm. The building is an museum in it’s self with lots of eye candy to enjoy as you go in and wonder about. The snack bar had the normal «old time» theater food, with surprisingly fair prices (wish others would catch on). Bring in a same-​day receipt from any Grapevine restaurant and receive a free small popcorn. The tickets were also very reasonable, dare I say cheap. The staff was very nice, helpful, what more could you ask of a staff. My understanding is the staff are volunteer.
We left with an all around good feeling about the night.

I just went to another great Main Street Band’s show. Those singers put their heart and soul into entertaining us. I actually cried during their Veteran America tribute. They love the USA and Texas. I highly recommend it.

After lots of research we rented the Lancaster Theatre for my husbands birthday party. Nadine our coordinator was great to work with. During research I noticed that a lot of places give you the room for free but the food and alcohol are very high price. Here they charge you for the room but after that you can customize your party to fit your needs. We did the catering with their provided. The price was fair and the food was great. I had people calling me the next morning to see if I had any leftover cake it was so good. With a small fee you are able to provide beer, wine and liquor. This is huge if you are wanting a full bar because a lot of the places will not allow liquor. I would highly recommend this venue.

They show really good movies that are old school and it costs $ 5.00 to see them that place is worth it!!!

Cute place.
I went here to see a movie. «Rear Window». I thought that’d be fun to see an older movie in a theater like this. It’s certianly cheap — $ 5 a ticket. You get your ticket outside like they used to do back in the day. The theater is nice enough — the concessions stand doesn’t sell much — NO ALCOHOL so please do keep that in mind beforehand and uh, «plan accordingly»…
They sell popcorn and sodas and water and some candy. It’s not a rip-​off either.
The theater isn’t too big but it’s nice. Seats are the old-​school uncomfortable ones. You’ll be squirming to adjust how you’re sitting within half an hour.
My main gripe was the sound. Picture quality was OK but the sound was terrible — it was really hard to hear what people were saying and it wasn’t a question of loudness, but CLARITY. I don’t know what needs to be done — but definitely don’t go expecting movie-​theater-​quality sound. I was pretty shocked. I missed a lot of jokes and stuff because I couldn’t hear.
Left of the theater is a big function hall — someone was having a wedding rehersal dinner in there or something. I coulda walked right in and stolen their food — smelled awesome. But it’s a nice little area.
I thought I’d be psyched to go here but it was only all right because of the sound quality, or lack thereof.

The husband and I met some friends this weekend to watch Jurassic Park in the theatre. It was so much fun! The atmosphere was relaxed and everyone seemed to have a great time. $ 5 tickets and $ 1 popcorn was a good deal. We really enjoyed it and will be going back again sometime to check out the rest of the arts center because it looks beautiful.

I came here for a Quentin Moore album release listening session. I’ve never been to the Palace Arts Center before. It’s located on Main Street in downtown Grapevine. It’s a pretty huge venue and is really beautiful on the inside. The area in which we were had great sitting and the band sounded amazing. The employees that were on shift that night were very kind and made sure that everyone enjoyed themselves. This is a great venue and a pretty good location.

Burning time to make our flight out of Dallas, we took some of it to tour Grapevine and were treated to an impressive revue of local talent dancing their hearts out to a full house in the modern, clean and heavenly-​cool theater. All for free. Dance after dance, these locals swung and swayed, bounced and strutted across the stage with renditions from Bob Fosse’s «All That Jazz» (
) to Magenta & Riff-​Raff thrusting pelvises to the «Time Warp», we wanted more but our plane, which we missed, was waiting. Bummer, ain’t it?.
This local establishment offers the cultured an idyllic little venue and the sound system is good and loud, almost as loud as the cheering audience.
Local artists hang their work from the walls or adorn mannequins with their latest creations. And the air conditioning makes it all so comfortable when it gets hot.
So let’s do it again, come on… put your hands on your hips and
Oh, you want more? Well hot patootie, ya rockers

The Palace Arts Center is located on Main Street in the heart of historic downtown Grapevine. There are two separate spaces in the Center: the Palace Theatre and the Lancaster Theatre. The Palace Theatre is a historic theater with seating for 432, a full stage, movie screen, light booth and sound booth. The Lancaster Theatre is a black-​box style theater with hardwood floors, brick walls and beautiful copper accents. The Lancaster can be set to suit any type of event from meetings to banquets to weddings.