{"value"=>"<p>Hall began his tenure as Artistic Director of the Dallas Theatre Center (DTC) in 1983. He served both TRC and DTC posts for throughout the 80's. With his managing director, Peter Donnelly, fresh from the Seattle Repertory Theater, Hall first addressed the most pressing physical needs of the theater: a renovation of the original Wright building to improve the backstage area, the basement floor facilities and the traffic flow; to find, or build a second playing house with wide open space to accommodate innovative productions; to develop broader audiences and to keep more actors working with simultaneous or overlapping play runs.</p> <p>The new Arts District Theater, designed by Hall`s associate, the distinguished stage designer, Eugene Lee, opened in 1985 and turned out to be an engaging metal barn which adapts to virtually any staging a director may devise. It is the most flexible performance facility in the country.</p> <p>The idea of a permanent company was another major priority and Hall assembled DTC`s company by bringing some people from Trinity Repertory, using some local actors and importing others. He opened with a brilliant production of Brecht's <span class=\"title\">Galileo</span> in the Kalita Humphreys Theater and, as soon as he could, staged his own adaptation of the Robert Penn Warren novel <span class=\"title\">All the King's Men</span>, which inaugurated most of the facilities the new Arts District house could provide. [Cf. http://www.dallastheatrecenter.org]</p>"}