2 Best Performing Arts Venues in Downtown, Anchorage

Four theaters make up the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, which is home to nine resident performing arts companies—including Alaska Dance Theatre, Anchorage Opera, and the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra. The center also showcases traveling production companies. The lobby box office sells tickets to the productions and is a good all-around source of cultural information. Take a look inside to learn more about upcoming events—which are understandably more bountiful in winter—or relax amid the blossoms in the adjacent flower-filled Town Square Park on a sunny afternoon.

On summertime Fridays, open-air concerts are presented at noon in Peratrovich Park (also known as Old City Hall Park). Come back on Saturday afternoons for Jazz in the Park from 4 to 6.