MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE

Miller Outdoor Theatre
100 Concert Drive, in Hermann Park
Houston, TX 77030-1702

The Miller Outdoor Theatre schedule is administered online by the Miller Theatre Advisory Board, at www.milleroutdoortheatre.com.

Located on nearly eight acres in the heart of Hermann Park, Miller Outdoor Theatre is the only free open-air theatre of its kind in the United States. It is a home away from home for some of Houston's most dynamic arts organizations such as HITS Theater, Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Festival Chicano, Houston Symphony, Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) and a host of other multi-cultural groups and theater companies. Every performance in our March to November season is free.

History
Miller Outdoor Theatre officially opened in August 1968. The 1,582-seat facility is actually the second theater in Hermann Park to bear the name of the late Houston mining engineer Jesse Wright Miller. The first Miller Outdoor Theatre opened in 1923. A classic Doric proscenium structure, on the site of the present facility, the theatre featured 20 Corinthian columns on either side of the stage. Some of the surviving columns may still be seen, grouped around a circular pool forming the Mecom-Rockwell Colonnade at the entrance to Hermann Park.