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    Broadway in a hall for 2,000, junior hockey in a 1983 arena and baseball that ends in daylight: picking seats and dates in Alaska's largest city.

    By the Reserved Seat editorial teamUpdated How we research
    The skyline of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. Home to 291,247 residents, it's the largest city in Alaska and contains nearly 40 percent of the
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    Upcoming events in Anchorage

    Dates and live ticket listings appear here as soon as they are on sale. The guide below covers what to know before you buy.

    Anchorage in one look: rooms and the seats to want

    Anchorage has no major league franchise, so your tickets here are for touring Broadway and concerts downtown, junior and college hockey, Seawolves basketball and volleyball, summer ball played by college athletes, and a string of late-winter festivals. Venues are modest in size, which means most seats are decent; the decisions that matter are few.

    • Atwood Concert Hall: mid-orchestra, center, or the opening rows upstairs; skip the far sides for staged shows.
    • Sullivan Arena: about 6,290 seats for hockey, so nearly every row is close to the glass.
    • Avis Alaska Sports Complex: only about 800 seats for Seawolves hockey, so buy early for marquee opponents.
    • Mulcahy Stadium: about 3,500 seats; any of them is near the field.

    Big arena tours route through Alaska far less often than through the contiguous states, so when a headliner does come, demand piles onto just a few dates.

    Atwood, Discovery and Sydney Laurence: picking a theater seat

    The city's arts complex on West Sixth Avenue, formally the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, opened on September 15, 1988, and welcomes more than 200,000 people a year. Three rooms share the building:

    • Evangeline Atwood Concert Hall: the big room, roughly 2,000 seats, used for Broadway tours, the symphony, opera and ballet.
    • Discovery Theatre: a mid-size room of roughly 700 for drama, chamber-scale opera and dance.
    • Sydney Laurence Theatre: the smallest, roughly 340 seats, for plays, screenings and chamber concerts.

    Resident companies include Anchorage Opera, Alaska Dance Theatre and the city's symphony orchestra.

    Seat advice for the Atwood

    At this size, the best blend of acoustics and view comes from mid-orchestra center or the opening rows upstairs. Seats at the extreme sides lose a slice of the set on staged productions, so avoid them for Broadway and save them for concerts, where the angle matters less. In the two smaller rooms, almost any seat is close.

    Other music rooms

    Bear Tooth Theatrepub mixes touring bands with movies. The downtown Egan Civic and Convention Center stages occasional events, the Rondy Music Fest among them.

    Wolverines, Seawolves and where they play

    Sullivan Arena

    Sullivan dates to February 8, 1983. It stands on Gambell Street within the Chester Creek Sports Complex and seats roughly 6,290 for hockey. The ECHL's Alaska Aces played there from 2003 to 2017, and UAA hockey used it until 2019. Starting in 2020 it served at times as an emergency shelter, a use that wrapped up in May 2023. Since the 2024–25 season the tenant has been the Anchorage Wolverines, who compete in the NAHL (North American Hockey League), a junior league that feeds players into college programs.

    Alaska Airlines Center

    UAA basketball and volleyball play in this 5,000-seat campus arena, opened in September 2014. It has no ice sheet.

    Avis Alaska Sports Complex

    Seawolves men's hockey plays on campus here, in a rink for roughly 800. The program was eliminated for budget reasons in 2020, rescued by donors in 2021 and returned for 2022–23 with no conference affiliation. With so few seats, weekends against well-known opponents sell out; this is the one Anchorage ticket worth buying well ahead.

    Baseball in daylight at Mulcahy Stadium

    Summer baseball here means the Alaska Baseball League, a circuit for college players, who must have a year of college behind them and NCAA eligibility remaining. In practice, you are watching draft prospects up close. Two local clubs, the Anchorage Bucs and Anchorage Glacier Pilots, split home dates at 3,500-seat Mulcahy Stadium, and the 2026 season got under way in early June. Rival clubs play close by in Chugiak-Eagle River, in Palmer (home of the Mat-Su Miners) and in Kenai (the Peninsula Oilers).

    The draw is the light. Night games regularly end with the sun still up, and the compact park keeps every seat near the action. Pack a jacket; July evenings can still turn chilly.

    Fur Rondy, the Iditarod start and the State Fair

    • Fur Rondy (late February to mid-March): the Fur Rendezvous winter festival. The 2026 edition ran February 24 through March 14, and its lineup included reindeer stampeding down Fourth Avenue on March 7 (the Running of the Reindeer), a music festival at the Egan Center and a Melodrama staged at the Heritage Theatre inside 49th State Brewing.
    • Iditarod ceremonial start (early March): mushers and teams leave from Fourth Avenue in the heart of downtown. The 2026 race left on March 7, with the timed restart in Willow on March 8. Watching is free; the crowd is deepest near the start line, so come early.
    • Autumn through spring: junior and college hockey, UAA hoops, and the performing arts calendar.
    • June and July: collegiate baseball, beginning in early June.
    • Late summer: roughly an hour's drive north in Palmer, the Alaska State Fair runs into Labor Day, with a concert series at the Borealis Theatre. Dates for 2027 are August 20 through September 6; details are on the fair's website.

    Summer is the tourist peak, and hotels get scarce. Come in late winter for the reindeer run and the sled dog send-off, and you catch the city's signature events during a quieter travel season.

    Driving between venues and where to base yourself

    Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is roughly 5 miles from downtown, to the southwest. A rental car is the norm, because the venues spread across three zones: downtown for the arts center and Fourth Avenue events, the Chester Creek area east of downtown for Sullivan Arena and Mulcahy Stadium, and the UAA campus farther east for the Alaska Airlines Center and the Avis complex.

    • Downtown hotels: you can walk to the arts center and to the Fourth Avenue start line.
    • Midtown and campus: drive or use rideshare for hockey and university games.
    • Winter roads: snow and ice are routine from fall through spring, so pad your travel time for night events.

    Bag and ticket rules vary by building, so confirm them before you go. Reserved Seat orders include guaranteed entry.

    Frequently asked questions

    Where should I sit for a Broadway show in Anchorage?

    Touring shows use the Evangeline Atwood Concert Hall. Mid-orchestra center or the opening upstairs rows give the best view and sound; extreme side seats can miss part of the set.

    Is there pro hockey in Anchorage?

    Not since 2017, when the ECHL's Alaska Aces ended their Anchorage run. Today the junior Anchorage Wolverines skate at Sullivan Arena and the UAA Seawolves play a college schedule at their campus rink.

    Why are Seawolves hockey tickets hard to get?

    Their campus rink, the Avis Alaska Sports Complex, seats only about 800, so series against well-known opponents sell out quickly.

    When do the Iditarod mushers leave Anchorage?

    The ceremonial start happens in early March along Fourth Avenue. The 2026 send-off was March 7, and the timed race restarted in Willow a day later.

    Can you see a baseball game in Anchorage in summer?

    Yes. From early June, two Alaska Baseball League clubs, the Bucs and the Glacier Pilots, play home games at 3,500-seat Mulcahy Stadium.

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