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The Fox Theatre (often marketed as the Fabulous Fox), a former movie palace, is a performing arts venue located at 660 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, and is the centerpiece of the Fox Theatre Historic District. The theater was originally planned as part of a large Shrine Temple as evidenced by its Moorish design.
The Goat Farm Arts Center is a visual and performing arts center located in West Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia.The center is housed in a 19th-century complex of industrial buildings and contains the studio space of over 300 artists.
Movie Premiere at the Rialto - 1940. In the fall of 1916, [2] a 925-seat theater, the Southeast's largest movie house, opened in the Central Business District (and the original theater district) of Atlanta. The theater was named the "Rialto," which is defined as an exchange or a marketplace.
In 1983, movie theatre entrepreneur George LeFont bought the theatre and renovated the 1000-seat space by converting the balcony area into a second auditorium. [3] The LeFont era witnessed an influx of independent, foreign, and art-house movies that would become the norm from 1983 to the present.
The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) is an international film festival held in Atlanta, Georgia and operated by the Atlanta Film Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. . Started in 1976 and occurring every spring, the festival shows a diverse range of independent films, with special attention paid to women-directed films, LGBTQ films, Latin American films, Black films and films from the ...
The Fox Theatre, a cultural icon of Atlanta. In the early 1980s, Midtown Atlanta was a blighted area mainly consisting of parking lots. By 1987, One Atlantic Center was built on the corner of West Peachtree Street and 14th Street, which kick-started the redevelopment of the area. Some contemporary buildings of note are:
Police have arrested two people who had been wanted for shooting a fellow moviegoer who had shushed them in an Atlanta theater last month. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Camryn King ...
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.