Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theater reopens at Taliesin in Wisconsin

After a lengthy $1.1 million restoration project, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theater at Taliesin is back open in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The endeavor was meant to preserve the iconic building while modernizing it for contemporary use. It was shepherded by Ryan Hewson, director of preservation at Taliesin for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Hillside Theater was first built in 1903 by Wright’s aunts as part of the Hillside Home School. It’s been a staple for the arts scene in Wisconsin’s Driftless area, otherwise known as Bluff County, ever since. Stuart Graff, president and CEO at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, called Hillside Theater’s reopening a “preservation milestone.”...