One of the most distinctive concert venues in the American Southwest, the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix is a theatre-in-the-round famous for its revolving stage. Opened in 1964, the circular venue was designed so that its central stage rotates during performances, ensuring that every member of the audience enjoys a constantly changing, close-up view of the action, a feature that has made it a beloved and unusual fixture of the city's entertainment scene for decades. The theatre seats around two .....

Phoenix's theatre-in-the-round has been slowly spinning audiences around its stage for six decades. The Celebrity Theatre at 440 North 32nd Street opened on 13 January 1964 with the musical South Pacific starring Betsy Palmer, built as the Phoenix Star Theatre - a convention and cultural centre commissioned by hotel magnate Del Webb for his flagship Hiway House complex. Beverly Hills architect Perry Neuschatz designed the twenty-sided prestressed-concrete drum, 196 feet in diameter, winning the .....

Phoenix solved the problem of 110-degree baseball with nine million pounds of moving steel. Chase Field at 401 East Jefferson Street in downtown Phoenix opened on 31 March 1998 as Bank One Ballpark - "the BOB" to a generation of fans - the 354-million-dollar home of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks, designed by Ellerbe Becket after ground broke on 16 November 1995. It was the first stadium in the United States built with a retractable roof over natural grass: the 517-foot-span lid opens or clo.....

Nirvana, Tool and Pearl Jam played this address when it was the Mason Jar; the room that replaced it was named America's best small venue. The Rebel Lounge at 2303 East Indian School Road in Phoenix opened on May 20, 2015, when promoter Stephen "Psyko Steve" Chilton and partner Chuckie Duff bought the fabled rock bar's building and rebuilt it from the studs. The predecessor's legend loomed over the project: the Mason Jar ran from 1979 to 2004 as Phoenix's infamous metal and hard rock haven, hos.....