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 .....

Near downtown Phoenix at the historic Papago Park, the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting is one of the largest firefighting museums in the world. The collection was begun in 1955 by Wisconsin executive George F. Getz Jr., whose lifelong fascination with fire engines led him to collect his first apparatus in 1955 and gradually amass one of the most significant private firefighting collections in the United States. After several relocations the museum opened at its present 50,000-square-foot Pa.....

On the eastern edge of central Phoenix in the historic Papago Park, the Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately operated non-profit zoo in the United States and one of the most heavily visited zoological gardens in the American South-West. The 125-acre zoo opened in November 1962, the brainchild of the Arizona businessman Robert E. Maytag (whose family owned the Maytag appliance company), and operates today as a private non-profit organisation under the umbrella of the Arizona Center for Nature Con.....