The
1886 Stafford Opera House
Location:
425 Spring St,
Columbus, Texas 78934
Telephone: 979-732-5135
Fee: $30
per person, includes dinner and production
We accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover, Check and Cash
For Tickets: Call 979-732-5135 for tickets.
Dates: Refer to calendar of
events at www.columbustexas.org for performance schedule.
Hours: Social……..5:30pm
Dinner…….6:30pm
Curtain……7:30pm
Designed in 1886 by the respected Galveston architect
Nicholas J. Clayton, and
commissioned by cattleman and banker Robert Stafford,
this beautiful, fully-restored building hosts dinner theater productions once a
month from September to June.
Sponsored by the Columbus Historical Preservation
Trust, Inc., these professionally produced events are performed by theater
troupes from Austin, Fredericksburg, and Deer Park, Texas.
In addition to the
theater productions, the site serves as a meeting facility and a museum. On
record as the state’s largest flat floored opera house, the building features a
copper, French-Mansard roof, curtains painted to resemble those which originally
hung over the stage, and a room containing the vault original to the period
1886-1890 when the building housed a bank on the first floor.
For more
information on the architecture of Nicholas Clayton go to
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utaaa/00020/00020-P.html
