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Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture
From historic to modern, visitors can enjoy art, performances
and educational opportunities throughout the city. Neighborhoods
around Atlanta house several museums, galleries and theaters,
many with chef-owned restaurants or eateries that make a
night on the town complete.
Downtown
Agatha's – A
Taste of Mystery presents original mystery comedy
with audience participation six nights a week, served with a
five course dinner with wine & murder.
Theatrical Outfit performs at the new Balzer Theatre
at Herren’s downtown, a historic building once housing
a landmark restaurant.
Inman Park
Jimmy Carter Library
and Museum portrays President
Jimmy Carter’s life and administration through films, displays
and a recreation of the Oval Office. The museum’s partnership
with the Smithsonian brings popular visiting exhibitions.
Sweet Auburn District
At the Martin Luther King,
Jr. National Historic Site, visit The King Center and Dr. King’s and Coretta
Scott King’s graves, the King birth home and Ebenezer Baptist
Church, where he preached. The surrounding Sweet Auburn
District was the thriving center of black enterprise in Atlanta from the
1890s through the 1940s.
Little Five Points
Theater is alive in Little Five as Horizon
Theatre Company brings contemporary plays to the stage. For off-the-cuff
improvisation, Dad’s
Garage Theatre Company is the ticket.
7 Stages brings new plays and international artists to its stage.
Midtown
The High
Museum of Art’s permanent
collection of more than 11,000 works includes African, American,
decorative, European, folk, modern and contemporary art, and
photography.
Now in its 62st season, the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra performs more than 250 concerts a year. Recordings have won
23 Grammy Awards, more than U2, Madonna and the Rolling Stones
combined.
Alliance
Theatre is one
of the largest regional theaters in the nation serving a diverse
audience. The Alliance hosted the world premieres of “The
Color Purple” and “Aida.”
The largest museum
of its kind in the Southeast, the William
Breman Jewish Heritage Museum offers three permanent galleries: “Creating Community: The Jews of Atlanta from
1845 to the Present;” “Absence of Humanity: The
Holocaust Years;” and “The Legacy Project: Coming
to America.”
The Fox Theatre is one of the country’s
best preserved picture palaces from the Golden Age of cinema.
Built in the 1920s, the theater has an indoor Arabian courtyard
with flickering stars and drifting clouds.
Check out the schedule
when you are in town, or take
a walking tour of this historic theater.
Atlanta Ballet is the longest
continually-operating ballet company in the United States.
Catch presentations of classical and contemporary works at
The Fox Theatre and Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
Catch contemporary plays at
Actor’s
Express on
Midtown’s Westside; classics by Shakespeare and other
accomplished playwrights steal the show at the
New
American Shakespeare Tavern in Midtown.
Emory University Area
The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
features art of ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the
Americas including Egyptian mummies; pre-Columbian pottery; ancient
Greek and Roman sculptures; and artifacts from the Middle and
Far East.
Buckhead
At the Atlanta
History Center, explore Atlanta’s
history of the Civil War, civil rights and antebellum South at
the Museum, housing the largest collection of Civil War artifacts
in the world, as well as an interactive, 27,500-square-foot wing
memorializing the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Also see the
1928 Swan House and the Tullie Smith Farm, an 1840s plantation
farmhouse.
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