6 Best Performing Arts Venues in Houston and Galveston, Texas

Houston's resident professional theater company is set in a fortress-like low-lying structure.

The largest professional African-American theater company in the Southwest stages gripping performances on its own stage in Midtown.

The Grand 1894 Opera House stages musicals and hosts concerts year-round. It's worth visiting for the ornate architecture alone. Sarah Bernhardt and Anna Pavlova both performed on this storied stage.

This Robert A. M. Stern–designed center's two opulent theaters, Zilkha Hall and Sarofim Hall, host Broadway Across America and Theater Under the Stars productions.

This hall, home to the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Society for the Performing Arts, appears almost encased by a second, colonnaded building. Its teak auditorium is more attractive than the exterior.

The Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Ballet perform in this center's two side-by-side venues, the Roy and Lillie Cullen Theater and the Alice and George Brown Theater.