September 17th, 2025
Scottsdale Arts announces new performances and shows for 2025–26 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
CAPTION: Images (clockwise from top-left): Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, ”DUNGEONS & DRAGONS The Twenty-Sided Tavern,” Leftover Salmon and ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ “BIRDMAN LIVE” will appear at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts during the 2025–26 season. (photos by: Justen Williams, André Chung, Nick Negrete and Bógar Adame)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottsdale Arts announces new performances and shows for 2025–26 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
The off-Broadway sensation “DUNGEONS & DRAGONS The Twenty-Sided Tavern” will make a stop in Scottsdale during its national tour. With five shows, audiences can experience a different show each time thanks to all-new technology that allows for choosing the path of the performers in real time.
Grammy-nominated Trombone Shorty will bring a party and a performance to Scottsdale with his legendary live show that blurs the lines between funk, soul, R&B and psychedelic rock. Audiences can clap, sing along and dance across the lush lawn of the East Bowl amphitheater in the spirit of a New Orleans street parade.
Several new dance-adjacent programs have been announced, including Films.Dance Screening, the most recent production directed and produced by Jacob Jonas The Company. The dance company will also host a sunrise hike at Papago Park and a meditation with Jacob Jonas on March 28, 2026, before an evening performance.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts is part of the multidisciplinary nonprofit Scottsdale Arts. Below is the schedule of newly announced concerts and events, which will go on sale Sept. 18 at the newly revamped ScottsdaleArts.org (subject to change):
Sun and Spine | A Conversation on Health, Nature, and the Body
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, 7 p.m.
Reflect on the body as a landscape for healing and on movement and art as a practice of connection to both self and environment.
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Thursday, Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2 p.m.
Join an interactive fantasy adventure, where you choose your heroes, battle monsters and help three adventurers on an epic quest to save the world.
Leftover Salmon
Friday, Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m.
With nontraditional instrumentation and an innate ability to push songs in new psychedelic directions, the architects of jamgrass have created their own weirdly unique style.
GALLIM Public Masterclass
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, 9 a.m.
Meet the dancers from GALLIM, and work closely with them in an immersive session, exploring ideas, approach, technique and the company’s body of work.
Films.Dance Screening
Sunday, March 8, 6 p.m.
Experience the most recent productions from Films.Dance, a global platform and creative studio for dance. Directed and produced by Jacob Jonas The Company, these screenings offer another angle to encounter and enjoy the company’s multidisciplinary practice.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Friday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
A natural-born showman with utterly magnetic charisma, the exhilarating grooves of Trombone Shorty’s legendary live shows blur the lines between funk, soul, R&B and psychedelic rock.
Sunrise Hike at Papago Park with Jacob Jonas The Company
Saturday, March 28, 2025, 6:19 a.m.
Connect with nature and engage your senses with Jacob Jonas The Company on a hike through the striking desert landscape of Papago Park.
Meditation with Jacob Jonas
Saturday, March 28, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Ground your body and calm your mind with a sunset meditation in James Turrell’s “Knight Rise” Skyspace ahead of Jacob Jonas The Company's evening performance.
ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ “BIRDMAN LIVE”
Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts© All rights reserved
Sunday, March 29, 6 p.m.
Watch the film “Birdman” alongside a visceral solo percussion performance of its soundtrack by Grammy-winning composer Antonio Sánchez.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts would like to thank the following sponsors and partners: City of Scottsdale, Billie Jo Herberger, Karen and John Voris, National Endowment for the Arts, Betty Hum & Alan Yudell, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, AJ’s Fine Foods, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Christine and Richard Kovach, Dr. David and Joan Goldfarb Trust, Mountain Shadows Resort, Dr. Mischa Cohen-Peck & Philip McNamara, Renewal by Andersen, Sternberg 3, and Dayton Fowler Grafman Endowment for Classical Music.
MEDIA CONTACT: Sydney Ritter | SydneyR@ScottsdaleArts.org | 480-874-4663