Named for a lawless ghost town, built to civilise a gap in the market. Beer City Music Hall at 1141 NW 2nd Street anchors Oklahoma City's Iron Works District, a 500-capacity venue that the team behind the Tower Theatre and Ponyboy carved out of a long-vacant testing laboratory and opened in April 2022 - a secret local-bands show on 31 March, then a sold-out Eli Young Band official opener two nights later. The name honours Beer City, the pre-statehood Panhandle settlement that lived two riotous y.....

Oklahoma City's comedy scene got its big-league room ten weeks before the world shut down. Bricktown Comedy Club opened in December 2019 at 409 East California Avenue in the Bricktown entertainment district, steps from the canal, and had barely seated its first audiences when the COVID shutdown arrived in March 2020. The club survived on limited-capacity shows and came out the other side as the anchor of stand-up in the state: a purpose-built room run by family-owned BARK Entertainment, whose gr.....

Oklahoma City voted to tax itself to build a ballpark, and the ballpark rebuilt the neighbourhood around it. Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark at 2 South Mickey Mantle Drive opened on 16 April 1998 before a sellout 14,066 - the RedHawks falling to Edmonton - as the flagship project of the original MAPS program, the citizen-approved sales tax that remade downtown Oklahoma City. The 34-million-dollar park by Architectural Design Group and Boldt Construction anchored the Bricktown Entertainment District.....

The principal performing-arts venue in Oklahoma City, the Civic Center Music Hall is a handsome art deco landmark in the heart of downtown. Originally opened in 1937 as part of a wave of public works, the building was extensively renovated and reopened in 2001, a project that preserved its period character while transforming the interior into a modern, world-class hall capable of hosting the most demanding productions. The main auditorium seats around two thousand five hundred people across mul.....

Vince Gill's first big stage came here by accident - his band Mountain Smoke was the emergency opener called in when Kiss's support act missed the 1976 show. The Civic Center Music Hall, at 201 North Walker Avenue in Oklahoma City - home stage of Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's biggest productions - opened on 4 October 1937 as the Municipal Auditorium. The building is New Deal monument: Roosevelt's Public Works Administration funded 55 percent of the six-storey Art Deco-and-neoclassical hall design.....

The principal indoor arena of Oklahoma City, Paycom Center is the home of the city's professional basketball team and the region's premier venue for major concerts and events. Opened in 2002 and known for much of its life under previous corporate names, the arena was a catalyst for the revival of the city's downtown and has since hosted championship-level basketball alongside a steady stream of the biggest touring shows. The arena seats around eighteen thousand for basketball, with flexible con.....

The building fed the Oklahoma Opry's audiences for decades; now it books the bands their grandchildren listen to. Resonant Head at 400 SW 25th Street, Suite A, in Oklahoma City's historic Capitol Hill District opened on 21 April 2023 inside a 1953 structure that served as the snack bar - the old Nag Station - and recording studio for the country music institution next door. The renovation embraced the mid-century bones and pushed them somewhere stranger: the designers describe a psychedelic fun.....