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Cullen Theater [1]

Type: 
Reading Venue
Website: 
https://www.visithoustontexas.com/theater/venues/wortham-center/ [2]
Phone: 
(832) 487-7000

The 1,100-seat Cullen Theater hosts smaller opera and ballet productions and serves as the venue for the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, a nationally-renowned series that has featured more than 300 of the world’s most accomplished literary writers. Its intimate size is ideal for solo artists, chamber music, and small touring shows and recitals.

Genre: 
Poetry [3], Fiction [4], Creative Nonfiction [5]
Event types: 
Reading [6], Talk [7]
Representative readers: 

Chimimanda Ngoze Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, Robert Boswell, Anne Carson, Mohsin Hamid, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpra Lahiri, James McBride, Colum McCann, George Saunders, Elizabeth Strout, Junot Díaz, T.C. Boyle, Emma Donoghue, Zadie Smith, Kim Addonizio, Terrance Hayes, Jesmyn Ward, Amber Dermont, Jonathan Lethem, John Jeremiah Sullivan

Address: 
Wortham Theater Center 501 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77002

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_places/cullen_theater

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_places/cullen_theater [2] https://www.visithoustontexas.com/theater/venues/wortham-center/ [3] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [4] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [5] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [6] https://www.pw.org/category/event_types/reading [7] https://www.pw.org/category/event_types/talk