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With a capacity of about 2,750, Arena Theatre is the redheaded stepchild of Houston music venues. Even with all the competition it has these days, the Arena manages to keep the lights on most nights out of the month. Its calendar is constantly crowded with music across a wide variety of styles, including R&B, blues, country, rap, Latin and rock, plus comedy, boxing and MMA fighting. The seats are comfortable, the concessions are reasonable (even the cocktails), the sound is clean, the rotating stage never ceases to be a novelty and the gallery of posters for past shows in the walkway leading from the parking garage is second to none.
Besides making a perfect punchline to the joke "Why did the farmer start a punk-rock band?" (he was tired of haulin' oats, y'see), Darryl Hall and ...
Despite being best known for his solo R&B career, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds has actually been a big player on the music scene since the late '70's...
Jeezy Arena Theatre, May 17 A self-proclaimed hustler on the mike, the Atlanta rapper known as Young Jeezy has grown up quite a bit since his 2001 debut album dropped under the name Lil J. Rising thr... More »
Paul van Dyk Arena Theatre May 1, 2013 In 1994, Paul van Dyk released a song entitled "For An Angel." Over time it would become a trance anthem, one of the most popular and influential songs to ever ... More »
The Airborne Toxic Event House of Blues, April 29 What happens when you layer dynamic, symphonic arrangements, painfully guttural vocals, and a wicked viola player? You wind up with The Airborne Toxi... More »
Cave Singers Fitzgerald's, April 19 The Cave Singers are hard to pin down. Made from parts of Pretty Girls Make Graves and the Blood Brothers, among other decidedly less folky bits, the Singers cut a... More »
Pop-rock wonders and '80s radio mavens Daryl Hall and John Oates are coming to Arena Theatre on Saturday, May 25, their second time through the Houston area in the past few months. Most people outsi... More »
With a capacity of about 2,750, Arena Theatre is the redheaded stepchild of Houston music venues. The part of Houston that doesn't use the Southwest Freeway as their major commuter artery tends to forget it's even over there by Sharpstown Mall, but it's been there -- albeit not continually operating -- since 1965. (The office towers adjoining the theater were built in the early '80s.) But even with all the competition it has these days, the Arena manages to keep the lights on most... More »
looking forward to Najee & The Jazz All-Stars Valentine's Jam!
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