Must-see entertainment in Georgia

  • Mercedes-Benz Stadium

    Atlanta

    Atlanta's state-of-the-art, $1.6-billion multipurpose eight-petal retractable-roof stadium is home to the NFL's Atlanta Falcons (football) and the MLS'…

  • Clermont Lounge

    Atlanta

    The Clermont is a strip club, the oldest in Atlanta. But not just a strip club. It's a bedrock of the Atlanta scene that welcomes dancers of all ages,…

  • Blind Willie's

    Atlanta

    This divey Virginia-Highland blues bar behind a neon alligator is one of the nation's top spots for the world's best down-and-dirty blues. Taj Mahal,…

  • Variety Playhouse

    Atlanta

    A historic, smartly booked and well-run concert venue built in 1940 and fully renovated in 2015. It hosts a variety of touring artists and is one of the…

  • Woodruff Arts Center

    Atlanta

    This arts complex contains within its campus the High Museum, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre.

  • Apache Café

    Atlanta

    An eclectic performance-art venue for hip-hop, spoken-word poetry and soul artists on the rise. It's a must-stop for those looking to dive into Atlanta's…

  • Terminal West

    Atlanta

    One of Atlanta's best live-music venues, this concert space is located inside a beautifully revamped 100-year-old iron and steel foundry on the Westside.

  • Goat Farm Arts Center

    Atlanta

    Embedded in a revamped 19th-century cotton-gin manufacturing factory that previously stood in ruin, Goat Farm Arts Center is the city's most cutting-edge…

  • Alliance Theatre

    Atlanta

    Internationally renowned theater inside the Woodruff Arts Center which produces a diverse bill of 10 or so annual productions, several of which later wind…

  • Stage on Bay

    Savannah

    All-ages venue hosting entertainers and artists of all genres, with a broad stage and high ceilings that allow for arena-style shows in the intimacy of a…

  • Dad's Garage

    Atlanta

    No, that's not a hipster worship hall. Dad's Garage, Atlanta's most award-winning and longest-standing improv group, took over this former church in the…

  • Savannah Smiles Dueling Pianos

    Savannah

    This dueling piano bar, where patrons decide what's played on the stage, brings the party crowd from far and wide. The lively space can host up to 450…

  • Tabernacle

    Atlanta

    Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan, Adele and Kendrick Lamar have all played this storied downtown live-music venue dating to 1910. While it was formerly an…

  • Jinx

    Savannah

    A good slice of odd-duck Savannah nightlife, the Jinx is popular with students, townies, musicians, and basically anyone else who has a thing for dive-y…

  • Eddie's Attic

    Atlanta

    This is one of the best venues for live folk and acoustic music, renowned for breaking local artists on to the regional – and sometimes national – scene…

  • SunTrust Park

    Atlanta

    Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves moved into this new, 41,149-capacity stadium 10 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cobb County beginning with…

  • Starlight Drive-In

    Atlanta

    Atlanta's only remaining drive-in theater shows double features on every screen. Drive up, tune in via your car radio and enjoy big-tickets movies like…

  • Venkman's

    Atlanta

    This newer entertainment supper club in the Old Fourth Ward hosts live music and is rather serious about food and drink (there's a to-die-for patty melt)…

  • Earl

    Atlanta

    It's grimy, it's grotty and it has a great lineup of live music most nights. We love any bar that occupies that perfect juncture between dive and live…

  • Rialto Center for the Arts

    Atlanta

    On the campus of Georgia State University, the historic Rialto has produced national and international jazz, world music, orchestra, dance and other…

  • Fox Theatre

    Atlanta

    A spectacular 1929 movie palace with fanciful Moorish and Egyptian designs. It hosts Broadway shows and concerts in an auditorium holding more than 4500…

  • Plaza Theatre

    Atlanta

    Atlanta's oldest continuously operating movie theater opened in 1939.

  • Soul Bar

    Georgia

    Dark and seedy, Soul Bar is a James Brown–dedicated Broad St staple lit by little more than a beckoning red light at the entrance and rows of colorful…

  • Imperial Theatre

    Georgia

    With a gilded awning, and a staged graced by actors/comedians Charlie Chaplin and Milton Berle as well as ballet-dancer Anna Pavlova, the 100-year-old…

  • Miller Theater

    Georgia

    This historic, 1300-seat art deco–style theater was the second-largest theater in Georgia behind Atlanta’s Fox Theatre when it originally opened in 1940…

  • Tybee Post Theater

    Savannah

    Historic theater constructed in 1930 as a movie house for army soldiers, it went dark in the '60s and dodged the wrecking ball at the turn of the century…

  • Midtown Art Cinema

    Atlanta

    One of Atlanta's artier theaters, showing independent as well as big-studio films.

  • Philips Arena

    Atlanta

    The home of the Atlanta's Hawks; hosts large-scale arena concerts as well.