The Reno City Council is now asking local historian and writer Alicia Barber to plan a citizen’s summit to gage the next steps for the perpetually in limbo and idle Lear Theater.
This comes after the council received a letter of interest from a local photographer with few financial specifics to revive the historical theater built in the 1930s by the Black architect Paul Revere Williams.
On its own website the City of Reno has a page called Lear Theater, which it started after it took over the historic building from Artown in 2021, which never got it going in its own years of having it under its control…