Text Source: Hoch, Isabel. 2008. Pages 83, 137, 159
The Radio Theatre built by David Stibbards was a handsome concrete structure ventilated by panels of metal louvres with a gravel floor and rows of canvas seats, 135 ft. long. It was a hard top, with an orchestra pit (eventually covered over with boards) down under the screen, and with a seating capacity of 400-450 people.
Its opening night, 10 April 1926, saw a crowd reported in the newspapers to be 850, including people from Aramac, pack the house. Music was supplied by a piano, violin and cornet. Those who couldn’t get in apparently went around to the Paramount, and it too had a good night.
Picture going was an important part of social life in the hard years and most people found attendance money somehow. The first week’s program cost 2/4d for canvas seats, 1/3d for back seats, children’s entry and chairs.
The equipment was a Western Electric projector, which had its own generator on standby for when the power went off. The first movies were silent films, with Lewis Vale playing piano.
Dave Stibbards owned and operated both the Glideograph and the Radio after the Radio opened, having alternate programs at one stage. Prior to owning the theatres, Dave Stibbards owned mainly property and butcher shops. In face of the competition, Vic Burke built a jazz floor at the Paramount.
In 1938-39 Dobbie and Solley were lessees.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Mrs Rose Fischer, Dave Stibbard’s daughter, operated the theatre.
In 1986, the floor was concreted to flatten it for indoor cricket games, the nets being rolled up when the pictures were shown.
The theatre closed in 1991, but in 1993, the old theatre found new life. With a Regional Arts Developmen
t Fund grant secured by Barcaldine Arts Council the exterior was painted by volunteers in colours to reflect the Outback and an Art Exhibition was introduced there as part of the Artesian Festival.
In 1994, the Arts Council working with Barcaldine Shire Council decided that the old theatre would make a suitable venue for future entertainment if the theatre were fully restored. To create interest and inspire help from other organisations the Arts Council arranged a screening of the then-current hit, ‘Priscilla – Queen of the Desert’ in January 1995 and by October 1995 the Outback Courier announced that regular film nights would soon be revived. Annual Art Competitions were also to be held, with the winning entries acquired by the various sponsors.
On February 4, 2008, community members gathered at the Radio Theatre to hear what was to happen as a memorial to the Tree of 
Knowledge.
In 2017, movies are shown with the new digital equipment twice a week.
