The Houston Theater District is ranked second, only behind New York City, for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area, and Houston is one of only five cities in the United States with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines of opera, ballet, music, and theater.
In addition, the Theater District is home to Houston's nine world-class performing arts organizations, the 130,000 square foot Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas, and parks.
The Theater District's resident performing arts companies are:
The Theater District is located in the northwest corner of downtown Houston and includes:
PERFORMING ARTS HALLS Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby Street Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana Street Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas Avenue Wortham Theater Center, 500 Texas Avenue
BAYOU PLACE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX Including establishments such as: Angelika Film Center Bar Houston Slick Willie's Downtown Mingalone Italian Bar and Grill Sake Lounge Hard Rock Cafe Verizon Wireless Theater
PLAZAS & PARKS Jones Plaza, Louisiana and Capitol Fish Plaza, Smith and Texas Sesquicentennial Park along Buffalo Bayou
HOTELS The Crowne Plaza Downtown, 1700 Smith Street The DoubleTree at Allen Center, 400 Dallas Street The Four Seasons Hotel Houston, 1300 Lamar Street The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa, 111 North Post Oak Lane The Hyatt Regency, 1200 Louisiana Street The Lancaster, 701 Texas Avenue The Sam Houston Hotel, 1117 Prairie Street
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