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This fall, Perseverance Theatre will welcome the community back for the 44th Season, opening with Frank Henry Kaash Katasse's (Tsaagweidí Tlingit) original play Where The Summit Meets The Stars, opening October 7th, 2022 and running on the Perseverance Mainstage until October 23rd, 2022.

While the last 18 months found the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra losing its popular and long-standing Music Director Randy Fleischer and performing in two very unconventional seasons - one entirely virtually with more than 115 produced films and the next with half-filled halls due to COVID surges, the nimble and resilient Anchorage Symphony open their 77th season with some well-deserved bright spots!

Nominations are now open for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Anchorage Awards! The 2022 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.

Tony-winning star of “Jersey Boys” take center stage at the Seventh Annual Galavant in the Garden Gala to benefit Bucks County Playhouse on September 17 in Solebury, PA.

This fall, Perseverance Theatre will welcome the community back for the 44th Season, opening with Frank Henry Kaash Katasse's (Tsaagweidí Tlingit) original play Where The Summit Meets The Stars, opening October 7th, 2022 and running on the Perseverance Mainstage until October 23rd, 2022.

The rings atop Alaska Center for the Performing Arts (ACPA or PAC) will light up downtown Anchorage more frequently this September as many of the PAC's resident companies launch their 2022/2023 seasons.

Close your eyes and imagine you’re transported to a dance club in Cuba in the late ’40s – that relentless rhythm you hear is the heartbeat of Orquesta Akokán. With the island’s finest players and dynamic singer José “Pepito” Gómez, these 21st century hotshots are polishing the golden sound of mambo with a contemporary sheen and powerful sense of akokán, meaning “from the heart” or “soul.”

Hailing from the remote island of Tiree, Skerryvore has skyrocketed to become one of Scotland’s greatest musical exports, and it’s easy to see why. Their eclectic fusion of folk, rock, and Americana – with thundering drums and bagpipes, of course – is as rich as a single malt scotch.

Neko Case is unlike any other artist. Fearless and inventive, she wields her voice like a kiss and her metaphors like a baseball bat. With a career spanning over 20 years, she has journeyed from punk/country torchbearer to an avant pop icon.

Anchorage Concert Association, the state's largest arts and entertainment presenter, is has announced its full lineup of shows for the 2022/2023 season.

It's 1956 and The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled 'widows' await the announcement of the society's prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass? How will the 'widows' respond as their idyllic town and lifestyle faces attacks?

Join your Sweet Cheeks Cabaret Performers for a culinary cabaret at The Cheeky Room - The Broken Blender. Live burlesque plus small nibs and drink service available by order!

81 year old Tom Rush is a legendary singer, songwriter, and interpreter who influenced James Taylor and introduced Taylor to Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne to mainstream artists. Rush's own songs are classics recorded by Emmylou Harris and others.

Nederlander and Alaska Center for the Performing Arts announced their partnership to present a new Broadway subscription series at the Center beginning with the 2023-2024 season.  

Anchorage Concert Association, the state's largest arts and entertainment presenter, is has announced its full lineup of shows for the 2022/2023 season.

If you want to experience the best Beatles tribute ever, you won’t want to miss The Fab Four–The Ultimate Tribute.

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has hypnotized, inspired, and terrified audiences worldwide. The spectacular, crowd-surfing empress embodies a new kind of 21st century cabaret – with plenty of sensational singing, witty banter, and sass for days.

Sweet Cheeks Cabaret presents its second completely scripted, fantastically wonderful, burlesque play! Lose yourself in the drama of this telenovela, and see if you can find the secret pastie glue formula that has mysteriously disappeared.

Anchorage Summer Arts in the Park (ASAP) returns to downtown Anchorage during June and July. The two-month live performance series is a collaboration by Alaska Center for the Performing Arts (ACPA or PAC), Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center and Anchorage Downtown Partnership.

Two years in the making, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I makes its way to Anchorage! Set in the 1860's, The King and I follows the story of Anna Leonowens, a British school teacher who travels to Bangkok to teach the children of the King of Siam. This wonderfully vibrant production featured a suite of local Alaskan artists and dancers including choreographer and dancer Suparat Prasannet. I had the chance to speak to Suparat about her involvement with the production. Suparat has been Traditionally Thai dancing with Wat Dhamma Bhavana Buddhist Center since she was 3 years old. She states that every Sunday, her parents would take her to the Thai Temple in order for her to learn more about her culture through movement and reconnect with her roots through language.

Performing together for the first time, @Studio C is proud to present ‘The Ed Washington Experience’. With a soulful and engaging sound, ‘The Ed Washington Experience’ gets intimate and creates a groove that can best be described as intoxicating. The Experience is fronted by Ed Washington on vocals and keys, Levi Betz on guitar, Oliver Petraitis on bass, and Kengo Nagaoka on drums. They will be playing Ed tunes like you have never heard them before, as well as introducing a new song in this debut performance

The Piano Guys come to Atwood Concert Hall on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Performances are at 2pm and 7:30pm.

@ Studio C is the home of Momentum Dance Collective and visual artist Enzina Marrari. An artist driven, community focused space, Studio C brings you a fun and final stop for First Fridays in Anchorage.

After two years of rescheduling, The King and I is bringing its dazzling musical numbers and lavish costumes to the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. In Anchorage for one week only, presented by Anchorage Concert Association. 

Momentum dancers hit the stage after a two year hiatus from indoor performances for their production, It's a party at UAA's Mainstage Theatre.