Fairbanks Plays & Performances

The Alas­ka Cen­ten­ni­al Cen­ter for the Arts was built in 1967 and designed to resem­ble a south­east Alas­ka trib­al hall. The masks on the out­side rep­re­sent ani­mal spir­its. Many peo­ple think the build­ing looks more like a birth­day cake, which is fit­ting since it was built for Alaska’s 100^th birth­day. Some Fair­banksans also refer to the cen­ter as the Pick­le Bar­rel. The Alas­ka Cen­ten­ni­al Cen­ter for the Arts is rumored to be haunted.

These music per­for­mances are spon­sored by the Fair­banks Arts Asso­ci­a­tion. They are held at the gaze­bo through­out the sum­mer. Bring a chair or blan­ket to sit on as bench seat­ing is limited.

The Lacey Street The­atre, one of a series of Art Deco build­ings in Fair­banks, anchors the area between Cush­man and Lacey streets. Its con­struc­tion cou­pled with two pub­lic build­ings, the old Fed­er­al Build­ing and Main School, changed the down­town streetscape of the old gold rush town in the 1930s. It was built in 1939 by Austin E. Lath­rop, own­er of a string of movie the­aters. In a 1966 fire, the inte­ri­or of the build­ing was exten­sive­ly damaged…  ...more