Richardson Will Crown the Next Miss Texas This Month at the Eisemann Center

A Stage That Has Seen It All Gets Ready for Its Close-Up

The Hill Performance Hall inside Richardson’s Charles W. Eisemann Center has welcomed orchestras, touring Broadway productions, and community galas. On the evening of June 28, 2026, it will do something it has done before but that never quite loses its charge: watch one young woman walk to center stage while the rest of the state watches with her.

The Miss Texas and Miss Texas’ Outstanding Teen scholarship competitions return to the Eisemann Center this month, running June 23 through 28 at 2351 Performance Dr. The week builds to the Saturday-night finals and crowning ceremony, when the next Miss Texas will be named and sent forward to represent the state at the Miss America competition.

For a city that takes quiet pride in its performing-arts infrastructure, hosting the official state-level scholarship competition is not incidental. It is, in a sense, exactly what the Eisemann Center was built for.

What the Competition Actually Is

It is easy to reduce a scholarship pageant to its most telegenic moment — the crown, the flowers, the walk. What that image leaves out is the structure underneath it.

The Miss Texas competition is, formally, a scholarship program. Participants are evaluated across multiple areas, and the title that emerges at the end of the week comes attached to scholarship dollars that follow the winner into her academic and professional life. The Outstanding Teen component mirrors that framework for a younger division, meaning that the Eisemann Center will host two separate crowning moments across the competition’s six-day run.

The winner of the Miss Texas title moves on to the Miss America stage, carrying the name of the state with her. That progression gives the Richardson event a longer tail than most: the woman crowned here on June 28 will represent Texas in a national competition, which means the week at the Eisemann Center is, in a real sense, the beginning of something larger.

Why Richardson, and Why the Eisemann Center

The Eisemann Center is not a rental hall that happens to be available. It is a purpose-built performing-arts facility with professional-grade technical capabilities, substantial seating, and decades of experience managing large-scale productions. Hill Performance Hall, where the finals will take place, is the venue’s flagship space — the room designed for exactly the kind of high-production-value event that a statewide scholarship competition requires.

For Richardson, the return of Miss Texas to that stage is a reminder of the center’s reach. The city sits along the US 75 corridor north of Dallas, and the Eisemann Center has long functioned as one of the region’s serious performing-arts addresses. Booking a competition of this profile is consistent with that identity. It brings participants, families, and audiences from across Texas into Richardson for a full week, filling hotels, restaurants, and coffee shops in a way that a single-night event cannot.

It also puts the city’s name in front of people who may be encountering it for the first time. A family driving in from Lubbock or Beaumont for a daughter’s competition week is spending real time in Richardson — eating here, navigating here, noticing the parks and the streetscapes and the particular texture of a mid-sized Texas city that has invested deliberately in its public amenities.

The Week’s Shape

The competition opens June 23 and moves through its preliminary rounds across the week, with each day building toward the June 28 finals. The structure of Miss America–system competitions means that audiences who attend preliminary events are watching a genuine athletic contest, not a rehearsal: scores accumulate, standings shift, and the Saturday-night finals reflect everything that has happened in the days before.

For residents who have never attended a Miss Texas event, the preliminary nights are often where the competition reveals its depth. The talent portions alone draw a remarkable range: classical instrumentalists, contemporary dancers, vocal performances, original spoken-word pieces. The scholarship framework attracts participants who are serious about what they do, and the performances across the week tend to reflect that seriousness.

The Outstanding Teen competition runs on its own track, giving younger participants their own arc through the week and their own crowning moment. Parents who bring children to the Outstanding Teen events often find that the experience lands differently than they expected — it is less about spectacle than about watching young women articulate who they are and what they care about under significant pressure.

A Summer That Keeps Delivering at 2351 Performance Dr.

The Miss Texas competition arrives at a moment when the Eisemann Center’s summer calendar is already doing considerable work. The week before the competition opens, a children’s theatre production runs in the Bank of America Theatre. The week after the Miss Texas finals, the First Thursday Art Walk on July 3 opens a new exhibit called “Urban Whispers” in the Green Mezzanine Gallery upstairs, with free admission and light bites from 6 to 8 p.m. A comedy show follows in July.

The center, in other words, is not coasting through summer. It is running a full program, and the Miss Texas competition sits at the center of that stretch as its most substantial single event — six days, two titles, and a Richardson address that will appear in the biography of whoever walks out of Hill Performance Hall on the night of June 28 as the next Miss Texas.

Getting There

The Eisemann Center is located at 2351 Performance Dr. in Richardson. Tickets and schedule information for the Miss Texas and Miss Texas’ Outstanding Teen competitions are available through the official Miss Texas website. The finals take place Saturday, June 28, in Hill Performance Hall.

For a city that has spent years building the kind of infrastructure that attracts events like this one, it is a week worth paying attention to.