The leading producing theatre in the southeastern United States, the Alliance Theatre is the resident professional company at the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta. Founded in 1968, it has grown into one of the country's most prominent regional theatres, known for premiering new plays and musicals, many of which have gone on to Broadway and beyond, earning the company a national reputation and a Tony Award for regional theatre excellence. Its principal performance space, the Coca-Cola Sta.....

A lush green oasis in the heart of Atlanta, the Atlanta Botanical Garden spreads across thirty acres beside Piedmont Park, combining manicured display gardens, woodland trails and striking glasshouses. Founded in the 1970s, it has grown into one of the city's most popular attractions, celebrated for its orchid collection, its tropical conservatory and its elevated walkway through the treetops. The garden was established to create a public botanical showcase in the city, and over the decades it .....

One of the largest history museums in the country, the Atlanta History Center spreads across a wooded campus in the Buckhead district, combining museum galleries, historic houses, gardens and a vast painting depicting a Civil War battle. Founded in the 1920s, it gathers under one institution the story of Atlanta, the American South and the Civil War, told through immersive exhibits and preserved buildings. The centre grew from a local historical society into a sprawling complex set among garden.....

Atlanta's concert hall was born from the city's deepest grief. Atlanta Symphony Hall opened on 19 October 1968 inside the Memorial Arts Center at 1280 Peachtree Street - the complex, now the Woodruff Arts Center, built in memory of the 106 Atlanta arts patrons killed in the 1962 Orly air crash while returning from a museum tour of Europe. Robert Shaw conducted the inaugural concert, an all-French program honouring the French citizens whose contributions helped raise the building. The 1,762-seat.....

College football's oldest FBS stadium was built by the students who filled it. Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech, on North Avenue at Techwood Drive in downtown Atlanta, has hosted football on the site since 1905 and as a proper stadium since 1913, when a 15,000-dollar gift from trustee John W. Grant - given in memory of his son Hugh Inman Grant, for whom the field was named - funded concrete west stands that Tech students largely built themselves. The horseshoe grew with the century: east stand.....

A handsome art deco landmark in the affluent Buckhead district of Atlanta, the Buckhead Theatre is a historic venue on Roswell Road that has been entertaining the city since 1931. Originally opened as a cinema and known over the decades by several names, the Spanish Baroque and art deco building was restored and reopened as a live-music venue, preserving its ornate facade and period detailing while adapting the interior for concerts and events. The room holds around eighteen hundred people acro.....

A long-standing fixture of Atlanta's live-music scene, Center Stage is a versatile performance complex on West Peachtree Street in the Midtown district. Originally built in the 1960s as a venue for theatrical productions, the building has evolved into a multi-room music and events destination, with its flagship theatre joined by two additional spaces that together host a wide range of concerts, shows and private functions throughout the year. The main Center Stage Theater is a seated and standi.....

A wave of steam-bent oak now cocoons the stage where The Color Purple first met an audience. The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre, inside the Woodruff Arts Center's Memorial Arts Building at 1280 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, is the renamed and rebuilt main stage of the Alliance Theatre, the Tony Award-winning regional company founded in 1968 on a campus it shares with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art - one of the largest arts centres in the world, drawing m.....

More than three hundred kinetic light orbs float and dance over the dance floor - a ceiling installation no other club in America runs. District Atlanta at 269 Armour Drive NE opened in 2016 in a converted 11,700-square-foot warehouse in Armour Yards, the industrial pocket between Piedmont Park and Buckhead, directly across the street from SweetWater Brewing Company. The renovation kept the warehouse bones deliberately raw while installing production that outguns rooms twice its size: the signat.....

The Fabulous Fox, as Atlanta affectionately calls it, is among the most lavish surviving movie palaces in the United States, a riot of Moorish and Egyptian fantasy on Peachtree Street in the city's Midtown. The building began life in the late 1920s as an ambitious headquarters for a local Shriners organisation, but the extravagant cost outran their means, and the auditorium was leased to the film magnate William Fox. It opened on Christmas Day of 1929, just weeks after the stock-market crash tha.....