Anchorage
This small off-center playhouse is the best live theater in town, staging everything from Hamlet to Archy and Mehitabel (comic cockroach and a cat…
Anchorage
This small off-center playhouse is the best live theater in town, staging everything from Hamlet to Archy and Mehitabel (comic cockroach and a cat…
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts
Anchorage
Impresses tourists with the 40-minute film Aurora: Alaska’s Great Northern Lights (adult/child $15/7), screened on the hour from 9am to 9pm during summer…
Prince William Sound
What a cultural resource! The handsome new Cordova Center would make a town 10 times the size proud. Aside from a museum and library, the facility…
Talkeetna
Based in the Sheldon Community Arts Hangar across from the museum, this outfit runs theatrical performances and an arts program throughout the summer. It…
Anchorage
Cruise into this very cool venue (check out the mural on the lobby ceiling) where you can enjoy great microbrews, wine and dinner while watching first-run…
Juneau
In among the thick cluster of jewelry shops that plays to the cruise crowd is this delightful art-house theater, which presents small-budget foreign films…
Homer
Live drama and comedy are performed in a ‘come-as-you-are’ warehouse next to the Fishing Hole on the spit. Shows start at 7:30pm.
Anchorage
Anchorage Opera is the largest producer of the performing arts in Alaska and one of America’s leading regional opera companies.
Anchorage
A fun, cruisy bar with two dances floors, Drag Diva shows, a cabaret, and dance music most nights after 9pm.
Anchorage
Anchorage had an orchestra before it had paved roads, which says a lot about priorities around here.
Skagway
This melodramatic show, held in the old Eagle's fraternity hall, is almost as long-standing as the events it portrays (it's been running since 1923). The…
Juneau
Founded in 1979, this is Alaska’s only genuine full-time professional theater company. Sadly the theater season begins in September and ends in May,…
Anchorage
More than just Anchorage’s favorite meat market, ‘Koots,’ as the locals call it, is a landmark. The sprawling, wooden edifice has 10 bars, four dance…
Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Dancers
Sitka
Tlingit dancers perform in the Tlingit Clan House, next to the Pioneers Home, with half-hour performances oriented around the cruise-ship crowd. The place…
Anchorage
This semipro team of the Alaska Baseball League plays at Mulcahy Ball Park, where living legend Mark McGuire once slammed a few homers. Also taking the…
Denali National Park & Preserve
At the back of the Denali Park Village in McKinley Village, this community center holds local talks and speeches, art shows and theatrical and musical…
Fairbanks
One of the Fairbanks area’s most popular nightspots, the Loon features live bands and DJs, movie nights, dancing, food and lots of good beer. A couple of…
Anchorage
Try this place for top-drawer musical groups, trade shows and other big events.
Sitka
Whenever a cruise ship is in port, this troupe of more than 30 dancers in Russian costume materializes onstage at the Harigan Centennial Hall for a half…
Anchorage Region
A semipro team of the Alaska Baseball League that plays against clubs like Fairbanks Goldpanners and the Anchorage Bucs. Until 1980 the Palmer players…
Fairbanks
Pioneer Park comes alive at night in this historical theater with honky-tonk piano, cancan dancers and other acts in the Golden Heart Revue, which…
Denali National Park & Preserve
The outdoor amphitheater at this hotel hosts 30-minute ranger-led interpretive talks on national park topics ranging from wildlife to sustainability.
Anchorage
More a tourist trap than a movie house, with IMAX-style nature films and a 15-minute theatrical simulation of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake.
Fairbanks
This multipurpose arena hosts numerous events, including the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics.