Live Entertainment in Wichita

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center is Wichita's landmark civic venue — a striking 1969 disc-shaped building housing a 2,200-seat Concert Hall and 700-seat Mary Jane Teall Theater serving as home to the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Grand Opera, and major touring performances. The distinctive architectural statement on the Arkansas River waterfront has served as Kansas's premier performing arts venue for over five decades.

Century II Performing Arts Center is Wichita's premier cultural arts complex — a three-facility performing arts campus presenting Wichita Symphony, Theater League Broadway series, and major performances for the Great Plains region. Its role as the cultural anchor for a vast region spanning Kansas, Oklahoma, and southern Nebraska makes Century II one of the most regionally significant performing arts venues in the American interior.

INTRUST Bank Arena is Wichita's most important entertainment venue — a 15,000-capacity downtown arena presenting major touring concerts, Wichita Thunder ECHL hockey, and special events. Wichita's extraordinary position as the regional hub for south-central Kansas and the surrounding four-state area creates a concert market that significantly exceeds the city's 400,000 population.

Memorial Hall is Wichita's most historic performing arts venue — a 1920 neo-classical building presenting concerts, theatrical performances, and community events in downtown Wichita. Its architectural grandeur and its 100-year history as Wichita's cultural anchor reflect the ambition of Kansas's largest city to maintain performing arts infrastructure worthy of its status as the Great Plains' most significant commercial hub.

Music Theatre Wichita is one of America's most celebrated regional musical theater companies — a Wichita summer theater presenting major Broadway musicals at the highest professional standard in the Midwest. MTW's extraordinary reputation for producing outstanding musical theater in a relatively small Midwest city (it regularly attracts major Broadway performers to its productions) creates a theater company of genuine national musical theater significance.

Wichita Symphony Orchestra is one of the most important mid-size American orchestras — a Beyer Hall institution presenting world-class symphonic programming to one of Kansas's most culturally ambitious cities. WSO's extraordinary history (one of Kansas's oldest cultural institutions) and its consistent presentation of outstanding classical music create an orchestra of genuine Kansas cultural significance.