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The Atlanta Shakespeare Company began on May 16, 1984. It began with a performance of As You Like It at Manuel's Tavern on North Highland Avenue. Over a period of six years, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company produced Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Taming of the Shrew in the back room ...
In the mid-1980s, it was called Buckhead Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, [4] until it was converted into the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre. [ 6 ] A significant Atlanta concert venue in the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the Roxy finally closed after Live Nation and Clear Channel ended their lease in 2008.
Joanna Mitchell and Jason Loughlin in Georgia Shakespeare's 2007 production of Macbeth. Georgia Shakespeare (formerly Georgia Shakespeare Festival) was a professional, not-for-profit theatre company located in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States on the campus of Oglethorpe University from 1985-2014. Georgia Shakespeare produced three plays ...
Atlanta Symphony Hall is the home venue of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It is located within the Woodruff Arts Center at 1280 Peachtree Street in Atlanta , Georgia , USA. The venue has a total capacity of 1,762 seats on three levels: 1,074 in the orchestra section, 349 in the lower balcony and 339 in the upper balcony.
The art center also included the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art. All three entities were combined into one corporation. The Alliance Theatre was added in 1970 as the fourth division of the Woodruff and 35 years later in 2005, a fifth division was added when Young Audiences joined the center.
Center Stage is a mid-sized concert complex comprising three separate venues located in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally known as Theatre Atlanta, the concert hall was built in memorial to a young theater enthusiast. Upon its opening in the fall of 1966, the building functioned as a performing arts theater, but has since become primarily music-focused.
The Alliance Theatre is a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia, based at the Alliance Theatre, part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, and is the winner of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award. [1] The company, originally the Atlanta Municipal Theatre, staged its first production (King Arthur) at the Alliance in 1968. The following year the ...
After a successful $14 million fundraising effort led by Georgia State University President Carl V. Patton and GSU alumnus and former Southern Company President A.W. "Bill" Dahlberg, the old Rialto Theatre and the nearby Haas-Howell and Standard Buildings were demolished and rebuilt in the autumn of 1994. There was a need for extensive remodeling.