GALA Hispanic Theatre

This guide to GALA Hispanic Theatre in Washington, D.C. follows two parallel stories: Harry Crandall's grand 1924 Tivoli movie palace, designed by Thomas Lamb, which went dark in 1976, and the small Spanish-language stage Hugo Medrano and Rebecca Read started that same year in their own townhouse. It traces the 1999 bidding war over the derelict Tivoli, and Read's drive to raise the money to win it.