In January 2012, the production company Woodlawn Theatre Inc was formed and took residency in Woodlawn Theatre on March 1, 2012. The Woodlawn Theatre continued to host mostly musical theatre productions during Pennington's tenure, and the production company was eventually renamed to Pennington Productions. With support from the local community, Pennington completely revamped and rebuilt major portions of the Woodlawn Theatre, turning it into a community theatre stage and hosting a number of Broadway-style shows. In 2006, Jonathan Pennington began leasing the property under the production company name Amphisphere Theatre Productions. In 2005, the last temporary tenant, known as Actors Theater of San Antonio, vacated the property. In 1986, the Woodlawn premiered the laser-show tribute to Pink Floyd while hosting a series of jazz and blues concerts. In 1979, an acting group known as San Antonio Theater Center was housed there. The building remained vacant and slowly deteriorated for a number of years, falling through the hands of many tenants, mostly small theater groups. It continued to be an active movie house through the 1960s and 1970s, and was purchased by Santikos Theatres in 1975, but it eventually was forced to shut down. On October 24, 1960, John Wayne hosted the world premiere of his film The Alamo at the Woodlawn. The Woodlawn Theatre opened Augas an elegant venue for Hollywood films. An exterior photo of the Woodlawn Theatre, taken July 4, 2009
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