Symphony Hall
Since the doors to Symphony Hall first opened in 1972, millions of people have crossed the venue’s welcoming threshold into a cultural and performance icon integral to the Valley’s arts landscape. It’s now a new era for this very-popular venue with the recent completion of an extensive $18.5 million renovation and expansion.
The multi-purpose Symphony Hall, home to The Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, and Ballet Arizona, is also the site for Broadway touring companies, a variety of dance productions, and appearances by popular entertainers, as well as the location for business seminars, and convention general sessions.
Symphony Hall now features 2,312 chairs with wood bases for better acoustics. Reconfigured main-floor cross aisles, additional elevators and a new wheelchair seating section greatly improve accessibility for patrons with disabilities and updates compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
There is a 60 foot x 100 foot stage area, high technology acoustical, lighting, rigging, and sound systems, a Green Room, rehearsal hall, and star, chorus, and musicians dressing rooms.
SYMPHONY HALL
75 N. 2nd St (2nd St and Adams)
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Orpheum Theatre
The Orpheum Theatre is an intimate setting for Ballet and Opera performances with only 1,062 seats in the main orchestra level and 302 seats in the balcony. Built it 1929, in the Spanish Baroque Revival Style, the Orpheum is a gorgeous backdrop for ballet performances! The theatre is the only theatre designated historic in the Valley, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Beginning in the 1980s, The Orpheum was purchased by the City of Phoenix and restored at a total cost in excess of $14 million dollars. The City of Phoenix 1988 citizens’ bond election authorized $7 million for Orpheum restoration and the Phoenix Civic Plaza Building Corporation authorized additional funding. Organized by the Junior League of Phoenix, the Orpheum Theatre Foundation was established as a non-profit organization in 1989 to raise private sector funds to supplement the publicly authorized funds and to enable a complete restoration. The Orpheum reopened on January 28, 1997 with Carol Channing “Hello Dolly.
Orpheum Theatre
203 West Adams Street
Phoenix, AZ 85003
Dorrance Theatre
Ballet Arizona’s in-house theatre provides a professional, yet intimate setting for performances that bring the audience closer to the action on stage than any other venue. By day, Dorrance Theatre serves as a state of the art studio serving both the professional company and The School of Ballet Arizona. Come performance time, the space is transformed into a black-box theatre complete with close to 300 seats, lighting, sound and backdrops. A performance in the Dorrance Theatre is indeed a treat for audiences!
Dorrance Theatre
2835 E. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85034