The Wortham Theater Center is a performing arts center in Houston, Texas. The Center was designed by Eugene Aubrey of Morris Architects and built entirely with $66 million in private funds. It officially opened on May 9, 1987 with one of the inaugural performances being a modern dance program, Tango Argentino, in the Brown Theater and Robert Wilson and David Byrne's The Knee Plays , presented by the Society for the Performing Arts in the Cullen Theater.