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Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. National and local acts across all genres have performed at the Theatre, including rock, folk, country, indie, alternative, hip hop and electronic. The venue is on the Athens Music History Walking Tour sponsored by the Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Georgia Theater (now Emma Kelly Theater in the Averitt Center for the Arts), Statesboro, 1936; Grand Theater, Fitzgerald, 1936; Hogansville City Hall (former Royal Theater), Hogansville, 1937; Holly Theatre, Dahlonega, 1948; Liberty Theater, Columbus, 1925; Martin Theatre (now Martin Centre), Downtown Douglas Historic District, Douglas, 1939
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.
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With the Georgia Theater taking over as the high-capacity venue and with the closure of the smaller Uptown, there was again a market for a small club that would focus on local acts. In 1991, [ 3 ] the 40 Watt moved to its fifth and current location at 285 West Washington Street, the former Potter's House Thrift store building.
Theater companies in metro Atlanta include the Georgia Ensemble Theatre and Conservatory in Roswell, Onstage Atlanta in Decatur, the Academy Theater in Avondale Estates, Performing Arts North in Alpharetta, Theatre in the Square and the Children's Garden Theater in Marietta, and Act 3 Productions in Sandy Springs. [21]
The result was a beautiful Art Moderne-style building that featured Italian marble terrazzo, black walnut millwork and a performance stage framed by fluted columns and hand-painted panels. Named after its founder, the Miller Theater seated over 1600 patrons and was the second-largest theater in Georgia, behind only Atlanta's Fox Theatre (Atlanta).
Loew's Grand Theater, originally DeGive's Grand Opera House, was a movie theater at the corner of Peachtree and Forsyth Streets in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It was most famous as the site of the 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind , which was attended by most of the stars of the film.