Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater (ACL Live or Moody Theater) is the theater and studio for ''

Austin City Limits ''Austin City Limits'' is an American live music television program recorded and produced by Austin PBS. The show helped Austin become widely known in the United States as the "Live Music Capital of the World", and is the only television show to ...

'', completed in February 2011 as part of the

Block 21 Block 21 is a $300 million mixed-use development complex located in the Second Street District of Downtown Austin, Texas. Austin's eighth-tallest building, the W Austin Hotel and Residences and Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater, th ...

complex. The

Moody Foundation The Moody Foundation is a charitable foundation incorporated in Texas and based in the island city of Galveston. It was chartered in 1942 by William Lewis Moody Jr. and his wife Libbie Rice Shearn Moody ''"to benefit, in perpetuity, present and ...

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granted $2.5 million to

KLRU KLRU (channel 18), branded on-air as Austin PBS, is a PBS member television station in Austin, Texas, United States, owned by the Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council. In 2022, KLRU moved into its "Austin Media Center" studios lo ...

, the largest single gift ever received by the PBS station, to help equip the new home of ''Austin City Limits'' on Second Street (Willie Nelson Boulevard) in

Downtown Austin Downtown Austin is the central business district of Austin, Texas. Downtown is located on the north bank of the Colorado River. The approximate borders of Downtown include Lamar Boulevard to the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and the ...

, Texas with high-definition production equipment. In recognition, the venue is called Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater. The theater/studio holds 2,750 fans, up from the capacity of 320 at its old space on the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

campus, and hosts an estimated 100 concerts and 100 private events a year, in addition to the ''Austin City Limits'' tapings. KLRU gets 45 days a year, rent-free, to produce each season of the longest-running music series in American television history.

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* {{official, https://www.acl-live.com/ Austin City Limits Music venues completed in 2011 Music venues in Austin, Texas Television studios in the United States 2011 establishments in Texas