Higher Ground: Dance Theatre of Harlem Houston Education Residency

Renovations at Jones Hall

We will enter a major new phase of the renovation in 2023. Upcoming projects include installing brand-new seats and side aisles throughout the entire auditorium; a long-awaited restroom expansion with improved access from the main lobby; an expanded donor lounge with added restrooms; and a host of additional projects.

While many projects will continue to take place during upcoming summers, major restroom and lobby renovations will begin this month. Jones Hall patrons will see our progress during this “pardon our dust” phase.

Starting this month, restrooms on the courtyard level will be renovated, with executive luxury washrooms placed outside the main lobby entrance of Jones Hall. This top-of-the-line, climate-controlled restrooms are more accessible, private, and convenient than our existing restrooms, and will be conveniently located at the lobby level. Ushers will be available to help direct patrons to the nearest restroom location, including other restrooms throughout the hall that will remain available.

We appreciate your patience and understanding while we work to update this historic building, addressing what we know are some of our audiences’ biggest concerns and improving the accessibility and experience of the venue for decades to come.

Annual Report

Celebrate with us!

Houston Art Makes The New York Times

Yunchan Lim, the 2022 Van Cliburn gold medalist, performed for a sold-out audience at Cullen Theater in October. The NYT lauded the Cliburn-winner’s playing as “poised poetry that had a standard sounding fresh…a maturity and confidence uncanny in a teenager.”

Our friends at DACAMERA were also on the list with the Houston premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), which had its sold-out world-premiere at the 50^th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel in February 2022. “Monochromatic Light feels less like a nostalgia trip than a broadening of [Morton] Feldman’s path deep into the pain and community of our time and the distant but resonant past,” (The New York Times).

Dance Theatre of Harlem made the list of Best Dance Performances of 2022 with Robert Garland’s Higher Ground. This ballet set to the music of Stevie Wonder is a soulful, funky social commentary that combines Black vernacular dance with classical steps. There’s still prime seating available for Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Houston performances of Higher Ground, along with other repertory works, February 3-4 in Jones Hall.

Family Day at Gazillion Bubble Show

That same day, attendees can enjoy Family Day in the lobby before each show, featuring community partners, prelude performances by the Theatre Under the Starts Pre-Professional Company and Elevate Dance Company, and arts and crafts activities for all ages. The fun begins in Jones Hall at 10 am.

Coming soon: The New Year Sale

Upcoming Performances