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 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.....
Built entirely around the world's most famous building bricks, the LEGO Discovery Center Atlanta is an indoor family attraction tucked inside a major shopping mall in the upscale Buckhead district. Part of an international chain of such centres, it is designed chiefly for younger children and their families, packing a colourful mix of hands-on play areas, gentle rides and brick-built spectacle into a single climate-controlled space. A highlight for many visitors is the miniature cityscape, wher.....
In the Atlantic Station district of Atlanta, the Museum of Illusions turns a visit into a playful exercise in not believing one's eyes. Part of a fast-growing international chain, it gathers optical illusions, mind-bending installations and hands-on exhibits that explore how the brain interprets, and is fooled by, what it sees, all wrapped in a format built for laughter and photographs. The experience is anchored by a series of immersive rooms and effects. A tilted room throws visitors off bala.....
Presence Arena appears in concert-ticketing directories as a live-entertainment and sports venue associated with Atlanta, Georgia, with listings citing concerts, comedy and family shows. Independent, authoritative information about the venue - its capacity, ownership, opening date and operating history - is not readily verifiable, and the limited details available are drawn chiefly from event-listing aggregators rather than an official venue source. The address and contact details that circulate.....
Built around the surprisingly soothing pleasures of slime, the Sloomoo Institute Atlanta is an immersive, sensory experience that elevates a childhood plaything into an entire afternoon of tactile fun. An offshoot of an original venue in New York that drew enormous crowds, the brand has expanded into several American cities with locations devoted to play, design and a vivid, candy-coloured aesthetic that flows from room to room. The visit unfolds as a series of interactive stations. Walls lined.....
Few cultural institutions in the American South gather as many art forms under one roof as the Woodruff Arts Center, a Midtown Atlanta campus that combines a symphony orchestra, a producing theatre and a major art museum on a single Peachtree Street block. Opened in October 1968 as the Memorial Arts Center, it was conceived partly as a tribute to 122 Atlanta arts patrons who died in the 1962 crash of a chartered jet at Orly Airport in Paris, a tragedy that pushed the city to build a permanent ho.....