Performing Arts Venues in Phoenix
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For decades the Valley’s Actors Theater has delivered theater-goers consistently high-quality professional theater productions. They recently managed to save themselves from financial peril and it’s quite a boon to the local theater and arts scenes. For 26 seasons the company served as the resident theater troupe of the Herberger Theater Center in downtown Phoenix, but […]
Having debuted back in 1971, the Alwun House arguably sired the entire downtown arts district. Housed in a historic two-story built in 1912 home, owners Kim Moody and Dana Johnson the joint as both a gallery and studio for themselves and local artists. There’s also an ample stage area in the back that has hosted […]
The Arizona Financial Theatre is among downtown Phoenix’s most popular indoor concert halls. With seating for up to 5,500 people, the expansive venue has hosted musical artists as diverse as Doc Severinson and Nickelback, and has been home to touring companies of everything from Little Shop of Horrors to Les Miserables. Former Phoenix Suns and […]
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Arthur Murray International, Inc., the country’s second oldest franchise organization, has franchises located throughout the United states, Canada and Puerto Rico, Europe, the Middle-East, Japan, South Africa and Australia. In Phoenix it’s a reliable place to learn to dance like the stars to see if you really can dance, because we know you think you […]
In 1957 then ASU President Grady Gammage called on famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright to help create a unique auditorium for the university. Originally Wright had the design that would eventually become Gammage Auditorium in mind for Baghdad, Iraq but ended up placing the opera house in Tempe instead. The 3,000-seat performance hall is 80 […]
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays
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Located just outside of Phoenix’s bustling business district is the Trinity Cathedral, an 82-year-old Episcopalian church. Those who’ve driven the area have probably passed the church many times, but might not know that it houses an ideal getaway for anyone seeking an artistic reprieve from the stresses of downtown life. Between the cathedral and Bishop […]
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, noon-4 p.m. Saturdays
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Childsplay, founded in 1977, is a professional childrens theater company. The theater company founder David Saar recognized during his Master of Fine Arts studies that children could benefit in big ways from professional theater and after graduating, began performing in local classrooms. To this day Childsplay offers three annual touring productions that stop and perform […]
This popular Westside venue, located just across from Metrocenter Mall, is devoted to street-level art forms-by which owners Danny “Scooby” Morales and House Magana mean it provides space for performing and practicing the art of b-boy and hip-hop dancing, graffiti art, DJing, emceeing, and skateboarding. Both men are founding members of the Furious Styles Crew […]