Live Entertainment in Dubai

117Live is a major concert promoter and venue operator driving the development of Dubai's live music scene, bringing international touring acts to audiences across Dubai and the wider UAE. The company has been instrumental in expanding the breadth and ambition of live entertainment in the region, working with venues across the emirate to present major pop, rock, and electronic music shows.

The Dubai national football stadium complex serves as a major outdoor concert and large-scale event venue for Dubai, providing the city with open-air capacity for mega-events and international festivals. The venue has hosted significant outdoor entertainment events drawing tens of thousands of attendees as Dubai's entertainment infrastructure continues to expand.

Alserkal Avenue is Dubai's most important contemporary arts district and showroom cluster — a converted industrial warehouse district in Al Quoz that houses over 60 contemporary art galleries, performance spaces, cinemas, and creative studios. As the anchor of Dubai's genuine independent arts scene, Alserkal Avenue's showroom spaces host experimental theater, performance art, artist talks, and cultural events that give Dubai's creative community a home entirely distinct from the city's luxury entertainment mainstream.

Autism Rocks Arena at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre is a major outdoor concert venue that has hosted some of the biggest names in international music while simultaneously raising awareness and funds for autism support. The arena's unique mission combining world-class entertainment with social purpose has made it one of the most celebrated and innovative concert venues in the Gulf region.

Coca-Cola Arena is Dubai's premier indoor concert and entertainment venue, a purpose-built 17,000-capacity arena in the City Walk district that has attracted the world's biggest acts since its 2019 opening. The arena is the first and largest indoor multi-purpose venue in the Middle East, featuring world-class acoustics, sightlines, and production infrastructure that places it among the finest concert venues in Asia.

DUCTAC (Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre) inside Mall of the Emirates is the UAE's most active community arts and performing arts showroom, hosting hundreds of performances annually ranging from amateur theatrical productions to professional dance performances and music concerts. DUCTAC's remarkable role in supporting Dubai's resident artistic community and its extraordinary accessibility within one of the world's most famous shopping malls create a community arts venue of genuine UAE cultural significance.

Dubai Creek Theatre is a performing arts showroom positioned within the emerging Dubai Creek Harbour development, one of the most ambitious waterfront urban projects in the world that will ultimately surpass Downtown Dubai in scale. The theatre serves the cultural programming needs of this new district as it develops into one of Dubai's premier residential and entertainment destinations.

Dubai Opera is the UAE's premier performing arts venue — a stunning 2,000-seat dhow-shaped concert hall in the shadow of the Burj Khalifa that presents opera, ballet, Broadway touring shows, and classical concerts for the most ambitious arts programming in the Middle East. Opened in 2016 as part of Dubai's transformation from trading port to global cultural capital, Dubai Opera has rapidly attracted the world's finest performing arts productions and established itself as the region's most important venue for high-culture entertainment.

Dubai Opera is the UAE's premier performing arts venue, a spectacular dhow-shaped concert hall in the heart of Downtown Dubai with a direct view of the Burj Khalifa that has no equal in the world of architectural concert venue settings. Since opening in 2016, the opera house has hosted world-class opera, ballet, classical concerts, and major international touring productions, rapidly establishing itself as one of the most important cultural venues in the Middle East.

Dubai Opera's main stage serves as the UAE's premier showroom for world-class theatrical productions, musicals, and performing arts, with a technically sophisticated 2,000-seat auditorium capable of transforming between theatre, concert hall, and flat-floor configurations. The venue has attracted Broadway and West End productions of the highest calibre, establishing Dubai as a genuine destination for premium performing arts in the Gulf region.

The Dubai World Trade Centre Arena is one of the region's most versatile large-scale event venues, hosting major international concerts, sporting events, and entertainment shows within the expansive DWTC complex on Sheikh Zayed Road. The venue's flexible configuration and central location make it the preferred choice for high-profile touring productions requiring capacities that smaller Dubai venues cannot accommodate.

The Dubai World Trade Centre showroom facilities are a critical component of Dubai's vast MICE and entertainment infrastructure, providing flexible, high-specification spaces for corporate performances, product launches, and entertainment presentations. The DWTC complex has hosted some of the world's largest trade events alongside major entertainment productions, reflecting Dubai's position as the convention capital of the Middle East.

The Madinat Jumeirah Amphitheatre is a stunning outdoor performance venue set within the magnificent Arabian-themed Madinat Jumeirah resort complex, with a backdrop of traditional wind towers and waterways that creates one of the most atmospherically unique showroom environments in the world. The amphitheatre hosts outdoor concerts, comedy performances, and theatrical events for hotel guests and the wider Dubai public within this extraordinary resort city.

Zabeel Theatre is one of Dubai's dedicated theatrical and performing arts showrooms, presenting a program of live theatre, comedy, and musical performances for Dubai's growing performing arts audience. The venue contributes to Dubai's expanding non-nightlife cultural calendar, reflecting a broader shift in the city's entertainment offering toward arts and culture as a complement to its world-famous dining and nightlife scene.