{"id":458873,"date":"2026-10-07T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458873\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:08:12","slug":"jones-hall-celebrates-60-years-and-renovation-completion-heights-river-oaks-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458873\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Hall celebrates 60 years and renovation completion | Heights &#8211; River Oaks &#8211; Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jones Hall for the Performing Arts celebrated its 60th anniversary and the completion of the venue\u2019s first full-scale renovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>Leaders with Houston First, the city of Houston and Houston\u2019s theater district gathered at Jones Hall on Oct. 5 for a tour of the newly renovated theater. Improvements include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Improvements also feature technical and infrastructure renovations backstage, including new, modernized stage automation controls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese improvements represent something much larger than a renovation\u2014they represent a commitment to the future,\u201d said Michael Heckman, president and CEO of Houston First Corporation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other details<\/p>\n<p>Jones Hall is home to the Houston Symphony and host to other performing arts events. It was founded in 1966 and is named after Jesse Jones, a philanthropist and politician from Tennessee who moved to Houston as an adult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/performingartshouston.org\/visit\/jones-hall-renovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Renovations<\/a> cost over $67 million, according to city officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones Hall for the Performing Arts celebrated its 60th anniversary and the completion of the venue\u2019s first full-scale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,5083,58,57,6803,156984,156983,5351,6740,156985],"class_list":["post-458873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-first","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-symphony","tag-jesse-jones","tag-jones-hall","tag-performing-arts","tag-renovation","tag-theater-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}