Hobby Center For The Preforming Arts Reviews

The views in all areas of The Hobby Center are spectacular. Parking in the garage is easy, just expect to walk 2 blocks from the garage.

Whatever you do DO NOT purchase box tickets. They have installed these huge boxes on the edge of the stage for audio and lighting and it blocks your view of the stage and makes for a horrible experience.

Love the Hobby center! Reminds me of NYC Broadway the seating is usually good and the show are almost always a wonderful surprise. Just saw Memphis great singing and dancing and my kids loved it.

Good parking, clean restrooms and accessible bars for intermission drinks

Saw the musical "Oklahoma " at 2 today. Great performance.

A must while in Houston. Great entertainment. Great service. Great location.

Watched Aladdin..the performance was Grand. The location was Gorgeous

Easy access to the freeway. Great restaraunt inside called Artista. Very nice theater.

The shows are amazing, and the acoustics are great.

Very nice building, clean, staff very professional overpriced snacks and drinks but hey I still enjoyed myself

Nice entertainment venue. Horrible drink prices. Similar to Broadstreet pricing but probably without the union

I really like this venue. It isn't too big and, with the exception of the box seats, doesn't seem to have a bad place to sit.

The place rocks, but do not park at the parking building. It takes an hour to get out!!!!

I have been there twice for shows and really enjoyed them. Looking forward to going again

Always good although on the expensive side. Added food service has improved the experience, while being moderate in price.

Not quite as open and friendly since you have to go through scanners, dump liquids in trash but today's security is necessary. Hobby Center is beautiful and many wonderful performances every year.

Recommended. Nice location. Affordable parking across the street. Vallet parking available. Very good sound system. Chairs could be a little better for comfortably sitting three hours. Overall very good.

Too much echo in the sound for a comic performance.

Houston audiences need training. It is incredibly rude and dangerous to leave during curtain call. Wait until the lights go up.

The parking is close. But it is behind the center. Needs more lights for the walk after dark.

Been to several shows and sat at highest seats and lowest seats. Have thoroughly enjoyed the shows I've been to. Mary Poppins was the most recent and it was great production, cast and set were great. Highly recommended catching a show here.

The theatre is beautiful and the parking is free for Lexus owners (us!) So it's a win-win. The performances are spectacular.

Awesome shows and great bar tenders. This place is a must for a good Broadway show

Great venue, fabulous shows that are affordable. Easily accessible, and offers vallet parking. They have a gift shop and several restaurants to dine in. Enjoy.

Sat in mezzanine. Good view but no participation in the magic show, which was fine for me but disappointing to the children. The venue itself is beautiful as well as comfortable. The staff was mostly friendly with the exception of a few. Overall, we had a great time. Parking was $12. I felt like after paying $350 for the tickets, parking should be included, but hey it's Houston and I know what to expect.

My wife and I came here for a showing of The Bodyguard and had a fantastic time. We enjoyed the show so much. This place is very beautiful with excellent sound systems and effects. I don't get to see live theater very often but it was absolutely worth it to go see this. I would definitely return here in the future and see many more performances by the very talented cast.

The ushers and other workers here we're also very polite, helpful, and courteous. So all in all, a really great experience coming here.

Love the Hobby Center, but the cost of parking is obscene and the show I saw was too much slapstick and too little theater for my taste

Went there to see the Nick Jr. Live show and was very impressed with the parking, areas outside the theater, and inside the theater.
The only qualm I have were the seats are definitely a little tight for heavy set people. Thia, however was not enough to detract from all the theater's strong attributes.

What an amazing show. Saw Lion King it was great. Be advised they will take your mace at the door.

Wonderful evening of dinner and a great theater on a beautiful Houston spring day.

Saw Phantom Of The Opera here. The acoustics are excellent, even in the back, and employees are helpful. Parking is tough, they were full when I arrived. Take an Uber or Lyft.

Drink prices high but good atmosphere and very well maintained.

Love the Hobby Center. Sadly, the adjacent restaurant Artista is closing. But Hobby remains a vibrant venue.

Great venue! Always love watching performances here.

I've noticed allot of changes in recent years. This year is the first year that even after curtain call people were still allowed to get to from there seats and go in and out.
Also, the metal detectors took away from the experience of going to see a musical. I know...we live in sad times but there has to be a better way than making patrons feel like they are walking into a place that is presumed to have allot of from. Makes people feel uneasy. At least it for for me.

The Hobby Center obviously did not give the restroom design much thought at all. Really, you want almost 2000 people to go down stairs from the orchestra level to take a pee at intermission and come back and be seated all within 15 min. The lines at the restrooms are unbelievably long for men and women. And you had better be able to move fast or you will get trampled by all the folks that have already figured out the restroom locations are a joke. Furthermore the parking garage design is no better either, again if you are not up and out of your seat, running for the door as soon as the show is over you will sit in line in the garage for at least another hour.

Phantom of the Opera was phenomenal! This production spared no expense and presented we Houstonians a Broadway experience without ever leaving home. So much talent and such class.

Went to Champagne and Stilettos an event given by Carla Lane of Lane Staffing and it was fabulous!!

Beautiful theater! They put on an amazing Broadway show!

Great place..Lines moved fast and they had people there to help you find your seats

Saw Spamilton, which if your able to keep up with fast talk was very entertaining to see.

Went to go see Rent. It was my first show there. Place was really nice. Seats were comfortable. Drink and RR lines were fast.

The Hobby Center it's self is a nice theatre. The restroom is clean, the seats were average size, the sound was good, however I say pick your events.. We saw "Set It Off" it was horrible... the 4 stars are for the Hobby Center

What a beautiful warm theatre. A truly great artistic experience!

everything is good but the bar has low quality mixed drinks

The building is beautiful and well maintained. I saw the Set It Off play there and I was really expressed.

I've been to the Hobby Center multiple times and every time, I have enjoyed myself.

what ever you do, do not buy the box seat. due to the speaker and lighting, you can only see half of the stage. Someone should be fired over this..........

Great venue. Went to see Set It Off. Had fun. Clean restrooms great atmosphere. Beautiful view. Bistro had on two options etouffe that was soupy and chicken with hashbrown casserole which was hashbrown and sourcream. Have to get better food cause for forty dollars it wasn't appetizing. Drinks were great!

Great place to see plays but the parking could be better.

They are figuring out the sound. The show was amazing.

My first visit. Parking was easy, the staff was very courteous, and the performance was amazing! I will be back.

Very nice venue. Parking is easy, staff is friendly.

Get there early for valet parking. Professional, helpful and friendly staff. Enjoyed each show very much. Seating was a little tight on upper levels. Floor, lower level seating is much better.

Go here for TUTS. Show selection is suffering with new management. Good cocktails, good food, staff is ALWAYS wonderful and very helpful and friendly. The staff really makes the atmosphere and the event.

Wonderful presentation of Les Miserables. Excellence performances.

Good place to go out in the evening with friends or date night.