Taylor Sheridan's group bought the Stockyards' Isis Theater and plans a 1920s-style supper club

One of the oldest movie houses in Fort Worth is headed for another life, this time as a dinner-and-show venue.

SGS Supper Club, a company owned by filmmaker Taylor Sheridan and business partners David Glasser and Dan Schryer, bought the Downtown Cowtown at the Isis at 2401 N. Main St. in the Stockyards, the Fort Worth Report reported Thursday. Glasser confirmed the purchase to the Report, and Tarrant Appraisal District records cited by the outlet show the deal closed in December 2025.

The sale price was not reported.

The group plans to turn the theater into a Texas supper club styled after the 1920s, according to the Report. Glasser told the outlet construction will begin soon but that no opening date has been set because design work is still under way. He said the aim is to "preserve and restore" the building, with its outside left largely as it is.

"We're not rushing any of the projects that we have," Glasser told the Report. He did not say whether the theater's roughly 500 seats would come out.

Reaction in the district

The project follows the same group's purchase of nearby Cattlemen's Steakhouse in the summer of 2025, the Report noted. Sheridan is the filmmaker behind "Landman" and "Lioness."

Paul Paine, president and CEO of Fort Worth Stockyards Inc., called the plan "very positive" for the district, and Mayor Mattie Parker called it "especially exciting," according to the Report.

Preservation advocate John Roberts, founder of the Architecture Fort Worth website, offered a note of caution to the outlet. "I hope they can maintain the existing theater space more or less as it is," he said.

A century of setbacks

The building opened in 1913 and was among the city's first movie venues. A fire destroyed it in 1935, and it reopened in an art deco style as the New Isis Theater in 1936, according to the Report's history. The 1942 Marine Creek flood damaged it along with much of the Stockyards.

The theater closed in 1988 and changed owners at least three times between 2005 and 2014 as redevelopment plans fell through. Jeffrey Smith and Debbie Garrett-Smith reopened it in 2021 as the Downtown Cowtown at the Isis after about four years of renovation, but it closed again in November 2023.

Records later showed $5.3 million in loan defaults and delinquent taxes under previous management, the Report said.

Sources

fortworthreport.org