Performances are free to the public, but tickets are required for covered seating.
All unclaimed seats are released 5 minutes before curtain. HSF hires both Equity and Non-Equity Actors. Now celebrating its twenty-sixth season, The Houston Shakespeare Festival has grown into one of the major events on Houston's summer entertainment calendar, attracting more than 475,000 people in its recent history. Festival audiences are an exciting mix of ethnic groups, young people, adults, and families who are able to experience, perhaps for the first time in an era when entertainment costs are often prohibitive to many, the excitement of live theatre. Prior to the establishment of the Festival, the fully equipped, city-supported Miller Outdoor Theatre boasted an impressive list of classical and jazz concerts, ballets, and operas in its schedule of free entertainment.