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Major Performing-Arts Centers
Symphony Hall,
75 N. Second St. (
&
602/262-7272;
www.ci.phoenix.az.us/
CIVPLAZA/stages.html#SYMPH), is home to the Phoenix Symphony and the
Arizona Opera Company. It also hosts touring Broadway shows and various
other concerts and theatrical productions.
The
Orpheum Theatre,
203 W. Adams St. (
&
602/262-7272
), is an elegant,
historic Spanish-colonial baroque theater built in 1929.
Celebrity Theatre,
440 N. 32nd St. (
&
602/267-1600;
www.celebrity
theatre.com), seems to be booking lots of great performers these days, such as
Taj Mahal or Ottmar Liebert.
The
Dodge Theatre,
400 W. Washington St. (
&
602/379-2800;
www.dodge
theatre.com), which seats from 2,000 to 5,000 people, books top names in
entertainment as well as Broadway shows and international touring compa-
nies.
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed
Grady Gammage Auditorium,
Mill Ave-
nue and Apache Boulevard, Tempe (
&
480/965-3434;
www.asugammage.
com), on the Arizona State University campus, hosts everything from barber-
shop quartets to touring Broadway shows.
The
Scottsdale Center for the Arts,
7380 E. Second St., Scottsdale (
&
480/
994-2787;
www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org), hosts a variety of perfor-
mances and series, ranging from alternative dance to classical music.
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run $15 to $117. The
Center Dance Ensemble
(
&
602/252-8497;
www.centerdance.
com), the city's contemporary dance company, stages several productions a year at the
Herberger Theater Center. Tickets cost $24.
Theater
The
Herberger Theater Center,
222 E. Monroe St. (
&
602/254-7399;
www.herberger
theater.org), is the city's main venue for live theater. Its two Broadway-style theaters
together host hundreds of performances each year, including productions by the Actors
Theatre and the Arizona Theatre Company (ATC).
Actors Theatre
(
&
602/253-6701
or 602/252-8497 for tickets; www.atphx.org) tends to stage smaller, lesser-known off-
Broadway-type works; tickets go for $24 to $42.
ATC
(
&
602/256-6995;
www.aztheatre
co.org) is the state theater company of Arizona. Productions range from world premieres
to classics. Tickets run $30 to $77.
Phoenix Theatre,
100 E. McDowell Rd. (
&
602/254-2151;
www.phoenixtheatre.
net), has its performance venue in the Phoenix Art Museum building. Musicals are the
mainstays here; tickets to most shows are $25 to $53. If you're staying in Scottsdale and
are looking for something to do with the entire family, the
Scottsdale Desert Stages
Theatre,
4720 N. Scottsdale Rd. (
&
480/483-1664;
www.desertstages.com), stages
primarily musicals and children's theater productions. Tickets range from $12 to $25.
