The Backdoor Theatre offers a variety of shows year round. They have regular shows and dinner theatres. For more information and a calendar of events visit www.backdoortheatre.org or call 940.322.5000.

Open Mon-Fri 8am-5pm when school is in session. Midwestern State University is strongly committed to providing attractive, serviceable fine arts facilities. The theatre wing of the Fain Fine Arts Center includes the recently-refurbished 475-seat Fine Arts Theatre and the flexibly-designed Bea Wood Studio Theatre. The art wing features spacious, meticulously maintained studios that ensure working environments conducive to creativity and achievement. Moreover, the recently refurbished Juanita Harvey Art Gallery is continually active, annually hosting exhibits by visiting professional artists, as well as students and faculty.

Originally built as a public library in 1917, the Kemp Center for the Arts is the center of the art community in the Wichita Falls area. The Arts Council and the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, as well as many other groups are based here. There is a beautiful outdoor Sculpture Garden and both permanent and rotating art exhibits in the North Light Gallery and the West End Studio. Regular performances of the various arts, public classes and a variety of other events are featured at the Kemp.

The last area Indian battle had been fought only 10 years before on the bluff where Memorial Auditorium now stands. Built in the late 1920's, in the early days, Will Rogers chewed gum, twirled ropes and performed on our stage along with Al Jolsen, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Keller, Gene Autry and Bob Hope. More recently, the Judds, Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, George Strait, Ricky Van Shelton and Garth Brooks have frequented our city. These current stars' double sellouts were matched by a double sellout of the national tour of the famous Broadway show Cats. Memorial Auditorium is proudly situated in a market in North Texas-Southern Oklahoma available to a population of over a quarter million people. Our attractive and comfortable auditorium serves a public within a 100-mile radius of Wichita Falls. It is our highest priority to provide both the public and visiting artists and promoters with the finest service possible. We are happy to advise interested parties in choosing the most appropriate performance dates and to assist in publicity plans, press conferences and ticket planning.

Open Tues-Fri, 10am-5pm, others by appointment. Originals, prints and giclees. Custom framing available