When the curtain rises at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts this season, the spotlight will shine on more than an impressive roster of celebrities thanks to a recently completed $16 million renovation. The star of the Center's elegant new look and feel is the high-tech Virginia G. Piper Theater, which features 852 plush new seats, improved sightlines, state-of-the-art acoustics and lighting, and an intimate atmosphere that allows audience members to sit closer to the stage. Outside the theater, the newly christened Dayton Fowler Grafman Atrium boasts a redesigned, permanent box office area, a café managed by Arcadia Farms, and a radiant public art installation by artist Kana Tanaka that features more than 100 blown-glass pieces illuminated with fiber-optic lighting.
On stage, the Center’s 2009-10 season will offer the best of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and satire, including performances by comedians Jason Alexander, John Cleese and Martin Short; the groundbreaking Martha Graham Dance Company; Grammy Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma; the dynamic Shen Wei Dance Arts as part of the new Destination China series; and jazz legend Arturo Sandoval, who headlines the first Scottsdale Latin Jazz Festival.
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