Centennial Hall

Centennial Hall is an auditorium on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, designed by campus architect Roy Place in the university's signature red brick and opened in 1937 as a venue for musical programmes, stage plays and lectures. From 1947 to 1984 it hosted the Tucson Sunday Evening Forum, whose speakers included Martin Luther King Jr, Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Jackie Robinson and Walter Cronkite. It was renovated in 1985 at a cost of more than $4 million and renamed for the university's centenary. The hall is operated by UApresents, the university's professional performing arts programme, which brings theatre, dance, and classical, jazz and world music to southern Arizona alongside its continuing use for university lectures. In 2010 it hosted Wicked as the first Broadway in Tucson production staged there, in the first partnership between that series and UApresents.

Where it is

Centennial Hall is a landmark near Tucson, in Pima County. It is one of the landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Centennial Hall, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

• Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
• Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
• Official site: https://centhall.org/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.