The Alley Theatre

The Houston Theater District, a 17-block area in the heart of Downtown Houston, 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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 233 KB) The Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas (advertising plays by Edward Albee) Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, Feburary 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: The Alley Theatre Theater (structure) ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 233 KB) The Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas (advertising plays by Edward Albee) Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, Feburary 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: The Alley Theatre Theater (structure) ... The Alley Theatre is a famous theatre in Downtown Houston. ... Downtown Houston is Houstons largest business district. ... Downtown Houston City nickname: Space City Official website: www. ... The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ...

The district is ranked second in the United States for the number of theater seats in a concentrated downtown area and is one of only five cities with permanent professional resident companies in all of the major performing arts disciplines (the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Ballet, and The Alley Theatre)^[1]. The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. ... Jones Hall The Houston Symphony Orchestra is one of the United States of Americas major orchestras, based, as its name suggests, in Houston, Texas. ... The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fifth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. ... The Alley Theatre is a famous theatre in Downtown Houston. ...

Houston widely recognized as the nation's third most important city for contemporary visual arts. The city is a prime stop for touring companies from Broadway; concerts and shows, from The Rolling Stones to Cirque du Soleil; and exhibitions for a variety of interests, ranging from the nation's largest quilting show to auto, boat and home shows. The visual arts are a class of artforms, including painting, sculpture, photography, and others, that focus on the creation of artworks which are primarily visual in nature. ... The Rolling Stones are a British rock group who rose to prominence during the 1960s. ... Cirque du Soleil (French for Circus of the Sun) is an entertainment company founded by Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier, both former street performers, in 1984 and is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...

One of the several attractions in the district is the Bayou Place Entertainment Complex—a large multilevel building that is home to full service restaurants, bars, live music, billiards, multiple theatres and art house films. The Houston Verizon Wireless Theatre stages a variety of live concerts and the Angelika Theatre presents the latest in art, foreign and independent films. Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table. ... A concert is a live performance, usually of music, before an audience. ... An Independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. ...

Trivia

• More than two million people visit the Houston Theater District annually.
• The Houston Grand Opera is the only opera company in the U.S. to win a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy.

The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. ...

External links

• Houston Theater District
• Alley Theatre

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