We are Arizona’s center stage, engaging the community through diverse arts experiences that ignite emotion, stimulate conversation and inspire connections to the arts. Box Office is open Monday through Friday, 12PM to 5PM and during performances.

Built in 1989 to support and foster the growth of performing arts in Phoenix as a performance venue and arts incubator, the Herberger Theater Center actively contributes to the cultural and educational development of the Valley.

From Our Founding to Our Future For more than three decades, the Herberger Theater Center, which was conceived as a nonprofit, civic treasure in the heart of downtown Phoenix, has played a vital role in Arizona’s cultural evolution. In the late 1980s, Richard Mallery, a local attorney and champion of an urban revitalization effort, led the charge to build an artistic showcase. Mallery invited philanthropists Katherine “Kax” and Bob Herberger to lunch, where they perched beside the windows atop what is now the Chase Building so they could see the future construction site below. The Herbergers, passionate supporters of the arts themselves, committed to the project on the spot and helped found this first performing arts center of its kind in the state. Now, almost 35 years since that fateful lunch, the Herberger Theater is home to three resident companies, some of which, until we opened our doors — and like other arts organizations around town — were performing in storefronts, in search of a place to call