High-wire acts and heavy props, used to build the gravity-defying steel “bird cage” on concrete stilts that frames the tallest little theater in Texas, stole the show from myriad balancing acts that combined into a command performance at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
The “most challenging thing” about the 132-ft-tall Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre was the structure’s instability until it was complete, says Jeff Wagner, senior project manager in the Dallas office of McCarthy Building Cos.