The Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA), located at
700 W. Rio Salado Parkway, is one of the finest venues
in Arizona
a jewel in the crown of a city known for its support of the arts.
The strikingly magnificent TCA, Designed by Tempe-based Architekton
and award-winning Barton Myers Associates of Los Angeles, houses a
state-of-the-art, 600-seat proscenium theater, a 200-seat studio theater and
a 3,500 square-foot gallery. The finely appointed Lakeside
overlooks Town
Lake, with views of the
Papago and Camelback mountains, and is available for meetings, banquets and
special events.
The TCA, located on the southwest end of
Tempe
Town Lake,
resides in a beautifully appointed 17-acre lakeside art park developed by
Design Workshop, a Tempe
landscape architecture firm. A
pedestrian bridge is scheduled for completion in 2010 that will complete
a loop around Tempe Town Lake and join the north bank with the south in
front of the TCA.
Local favorites including Childsplay, Tempe Little Theatre, the
Tempe Symphony Orchestra, the Tempe Community Chorus, A. Ludwig Dance,
Desert Dance and the Tempe Wind Ensemble perform on the centers stages.
