Marty Stuart came home to Philadelphia, Mississippi, and brought a theatre back to life with him. The Ellis Theater at 311 Byrd Avenue opened in November 1926 as the City Theatre, a small-town movie house designed by Henry Bell Hutchinson, was renamed the Strand by 1939, and ran films into the 1950s before settling into decades as a community live venue under the Ellis name, stewarded by the Philadelphia-Neshoba County Arts Council. The transformation came when the Arts Council donated the buil.....