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RIALTO CENTER FOR THE ARTS

80 Forsyth Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30303


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Rialto Center for the Arts Closes in on Fundraising Goal


by Stephi Wild - April 30, 2024

One year after restoring connections to its roots as a downtown movie palace, the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University has announced successes from its first year of operation featuring the historic venue’s new Digital Cinema Projection (DCP) projector and larger Stewart cinema scr...

Rialto Center For The Arts To Ring In 2024 With Eight Performances


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 13, 2023

The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University presents a lineup of iconic music and dance performances for 2024. ...

Atlanta's Rialto Center For The Arts Announces 2023-24 Series HOLDING THE LIGHT


by A.A. Cristi - June 21, 2023

The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University has announced its 2023-2024 Rialto Series Holding The Light, exploring how the arts inspire hope in challenging times....

THE BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY & More Lead BroadwayWorld Atlanta's Top Picks For April 2023


by BWW Staff - March 21, 2023

Atlanta is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. April 2023's top picks include The Boy Who Kissed The Sky, Dorrance Dance Company, and more!...

Dance Canvas to Celebrate 15 Years - Returning to the Ferst Center With New Works & Films


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 10, 2023

Dance Canvas is returning to the Ferst Center for the Arts on March 23rd - 25th with the acclaimed annual performance series....

SPAMALOT & More Lead BroadwayWorld Atlanta's Top Picks For March 2023


by BWW Staff - February 21, 2023

Atlanta is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. This month's top picks include Spamalot, Next to Normal, & more!...

THE 39 STEPS, NOBUNTU, BROOKLYN & More Lead BroadwayWorld Atlanta's Fall Preview


by BWW Staff - October 04, 2022

Atlanta is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Check out our fall preview top picks!...

Past Shows

GSU Student Film Festival 2024


Enjoy the free annual showcase of films written, produced and directed by current film and media majors and master of arts production students. The goal ...

Harold López-Nussa and Pedrito Martinez


The Rialto presents a double-header of Afro-Cuban music superstars, with Act One featuring pianist Harold L ó pez-Nussa ’s distinctive combination of classical, folkloric and ...

Jumaane Smith


Enjoy an evening with Wynton Marsalis protégé Jumaane Smith, an acclaimed trumpeter, vocalist and composer celebrating the origins of jump blues and jazz in “Louis! Louis! ...

Rialto Feed Your Senses with Casey Hooper and Friends with the Ukeladies


Enjoy a free lunch and concert featuring Casey Hooper and Friends with special guests the Ukeladies. Hooper is a sideman guitar player who has collaborated ...

Parsons Dance


Enjoy a performance by Parsons Dance, the New York-based contemporary American dance company that’s internationally renowned for its energized, athletic ensemble work. Founded in 1985 ...

The King’s Singers


The King’s singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing for over 50 years. Formed in 1968 by six recent graduates of King’s ...

Mike Opitz Quartet


Enjoy a free lunch and concert featuring The Michael Opitz Quartet, which will present a program of music ranging from familiar jazz standards of the ...

Peabo Bryson


Just in time for Valentine’s Day, enjoy an enchanting evening of love songs by one of the top male vocalists of the last 40 years. ...

Take 6
Take 6
1/27


Heralded as “the baddest vocal cats on the planet” by Quincy Jones, Take 6 is the quintessential a cappella group and model for vocal genius. ...

Quinn Mason


Enjoy a free lunch and concert featuring saxophonist Quinn Mason, who has shared the stage with countless talented musicians coast to coast. Quinn and his ...

Rialto Center’s 26th Annual Holiday Gala


Enjoy a free lunch and concert featuring The Rambling Boys, a bluegrass band from the rolling hills of North Georgia. Comprised of four friends, the ...

Rialto Center’s 26th Annual Holiday Gala


Experience the magic of the 26th Annual Holiday Gala, a captivating event proudly presented by the Georgia State School of Music at the iconic Rialto ...

Feed Your Senses LIVE featuring Bautanzt Here


Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring Bautanzt Here, from bau meaning “build” and tanzt or German for “dancing,” a site-specific Atlanta-based dance theater founded ...

The Queen's Cartoonists


Performing music from over 100 years of animation, The Queen’s Cartoonists (TQC) perfectly synchronize their instruments to the classic cartoons projected on the screen, matching ...

Feed Your Senses LIVE featuring the Javelinas


Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring the Javelinas, which began as a guitar duo featuring the organic post-western melancholic, part improvisation, part composed music ...

Ranky Tanky with Ms. Lisa Fischer


Grammy Award-winning vocalist Ms. Lisa Fischer, who appeared in the Oscar-winning documentary “20 Feet from Stardom,” joins Grammy-winning Roots band Ranky Tanky for an unforgettable ...

Feed Your Senses LIVE featuring the Grady Glenn Collaboration


Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring the Grady Glenn Collaboration, including their blend of world instrumentation and rhythmic voice interactions with the possibility for ...

Free Film Premiere “The Harvest” with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Douglas A. Blackmon


Enjoy a free film premiere of “The Harvest” exploring what happened when the small town of Leland, Miss., integrated its public schools in 1970. Told ...

Feed Your Senses LIVE featuring Alchemical String Theory


Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring Alchemical String Theory (AST), a collective of avant-garde string artists from Atlanta’s Improvisational Underground. Live performances often feature solo ...

Feed Your Senses with Pianist Anita Aysola


Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring pianist, vocalist and songwriter Anita Aysola with band members Justin Chesarek (percussion) and Robby Handley (bass). Armed with ...

Feed Your Senses with Pianist Anita Aysola


Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring pianist, vocalist and songwriter Anita Aysola with band members Justin Chesarek (percussion) and Robby Handley (bass). Armed with ...

Feed Your Senses with The Jeff Crompton/Benjamin Shirley Duo


The Feed Your Senses series continues with a live performance by Atlanta saxophonist Jeff Crompton with cellist Benjamin Shirley. Collaborating on original duo music since ...

Jeff 'Tain' Watts and the GSU Jazz Band


With explosive power, blinding speed and mastery of complex rhythms, jazz drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts brings a rare sense of elegance, tried-by-fire composure and gritty ...

Our Town - The Opera


Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 American classic play “Our Town”—which earned a Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of life in fictional Grover’s Corners, N.H.—inspired radio, television, ...

Our Town - The Opera


Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938 American classic play “Our Town”—which earned a Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of life in fictional Grover’s Corners, N.H.—inspired radio, television, ...

Dorrance Dance Company


Featuring dancers and musicians rooted in improvisation, Dorrance Dance Company is an award-winning tap ensemble founded by 2015 MacArthur Fellow/Artistic Director Michelle Dorrance. The company ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Songs We Love


Songs We Love , a journey through the first 50 years of jazz song, is presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center under the musical direction ...

Johnny Mercer Tribute Featuring Joe Gransden


“Jeepers Creepers.” “Summer Wind.” “Moon River.” “Hooray for Hollywood.” Everyone knows the lyrics to these songs, among more than 1,400 penned by Georgia native Johnny ...

Feed Your Senses LIVE with Alex Gordon


Feed Your Senses LIVE returns in person in the Rialto lobby with Alex Gordon, who was voted the city’s Best Instrumentalist in  Creative Loafing’s  2019  Best of ...

Mavis Staples


Mavis Staples is a living legend. In a career spanning longer than Queen Elizabeth’s reign, this once-in-a-generation artist is a Kennedy Center Honoree, Blues, Gospel ...

Martha Graham Dance Company


The Martha Graham Dance Company has been a world leader in the evolving art form of modern dance since its founding in 1926. Today, the ...

Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.


Legends and co-founders of The 5th Dimension also known as “The First Couple of Pop & Soul,” Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. are the ...

25th Annual Gala Holiday Concert


Presented by the Georgia State University School of Music, this highly anticipated concert has been an Atlanta tradition for 25 years, bringing together talented student ...

Arturo Sandoval


Among the most dynamic and vivacious performers of our time, Cuban-American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval is the Dizzy Gillespie protégé who first ...

Nobuntu
Nobuntu
10/15


The word Nobuntu is an African concept that values humbleness, love, unity and family from a womans perspective. This female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe ...

Jane Monheit


A vocalist with remarkable virtuosity and innate interpretative skills, Jane Monheit puts her unique touch on beloved jazz standards, classic torch songs and contemporary pop. ...

Traces: A Speech to African Nations


In this one-man theatrical performance in French with English supertitles, the philosophical and poetic thoughts of writer Felwine Sarr come to life through his character, ...

The Manhattan Transfer


Through nearly five decades during which they earned 10 Grammy Awards, The Manhattan Transfer continues to set the standard as one of the worlds greatest ...

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham “An Untitled Love”


Choreographer, dancer and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham presents An Untitled Love featuring the catalogue of Grammy Award-winning R&B legend DAngelo. This A.I.M by Kyle Abraham ...

Rialto Jazz for Kids All Stars Neighborhood Jazz Series


Rialto Center for the Arts presents the Rialto Jazz for Kids All Stars on stage as part of the City of Atlantas Neighborhood Jazz Series. ...

Rialto Jazz for Kids Neighborhood Jazz Series


Rialto Center for the Arts presents the Rialto Youth Jazz Orchestra Combo (RYJO) on stage as part of the City of Atlantas Neighborhood Jazz Series. ...

Miguel Zenón and the GSU Jazz Band


Multiple Grammy-nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenn is widely considered among the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists of his generation, representing a select ...

2nd Annual Rialto Gala with Broadway's Next Hit Musical


Celebrate the cultural centerpiece of Downtown Atlanta with a red carpet evening at the Second Annual Rialto Gala, with attendees dressed like the stars. Diamond ...

Syncopated Ladies: Live!


Syncopated Ladies: Live! features the female tap dance band widely known for their viral videos and founded by Emmy-nominated choreographer Chloe Arnold, who was discovered ...

Pacific Mambo Orchestra


Pacific Mambo Orchestra (PMO) is a 20 piece big band with an even bigger sound that Salsa Trips Magazine named one of the best Latin ...

Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo
1/29 - 1/22/2022


A master of international music who sings in five languages, Anglique Kidjo is among the most iconic and respected artists in global music today. On ...

Christmas with Calabria Foti and Bob McChesney


Celebrate Christmas with Grammy-nominated songstress Calabria Foti and trombone virtuoso Bob McChesney. The husband and wife duo delight audiences with an exciting blend of swingin ...

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue


Winner of the prestigious Blues Music Award (formerly the W.C. Handy Award) for horn in 2018, the beloved bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy ...

Rialto Livestream of Rock Duo WEISSHUND


Enjoy this free Feed Your Senses livestream performance featuring WEISSHUND, the rock duo born from a raucous all-night, whiskey-fueled jam session in 2014. Rick Lollar ...

Live at the Rialto - The Gala!


Enjoy this free virtual gala celebration and fundraiser in support of the Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University, featuring a virtual red ...

Rialto Feed Your Senses Livestream featuring Joe Gransden


As described by jazz enthusiast and performer Clint Eastwood, Joe Gransden is a young man with an old soul and a classic voice hes a ...

Rialto Homegrown: Kenito Murray and Quinn Mason


Atlanta-based artists Kenito Murray (percussion) and Quinn Mason (saxophone, electronics) are staples of the local music scene. Murray and Mason explore, collaborate, and improvise across ...

Le Nozze di Figaro
Le Nozze di Figaro
4/13 - 4/15/2012


Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro presented by Georgia State University Opera Theatre & Symphony Orchestra....

Trey McIntyre Project


Trey McIntyre Project Ballet. Passion. Energy. For more information, visit the website....

The Music of Johnny Mercer and Friends


The Music of Johnny Mercer and Friends featuring Joe Gransden & jazz vocalist Maria Howell with the Georgia State University Jazz Band....

Off The Edge
Off The Edge
1/27 - 1/28/2012


Off the Edge - Take the Leap! The Rialto's Inaugural Contemporary Dance Festival. For more information, visit the website....

Capitol Steps


Capitol Steps, Musical & Political Satire from Washington D.C. For more information, visit the website....

EVIDENCE: A Dance Company


Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE: A Dance Company presents On Earth Together to the Music of Stevie Wonder. For more information, visit the website....

Salon de Dance


French Contemporary Dance in Atlanta featuring ASPHALTE by compagnie dernière minute of Pierre Rigal. For more information, visit the website....

Thiago Arancam


Brazilian Opera Sensation. Part of Bauru-Atlanta vocal competition and Brazil Fest 2011. For more information, visit the website....

Videos


Romeo & Juliet in Atlanta Romeo & Juliet
ACT1 Theater (10/18 - 10/26)
Cabaret in Atlanta Cabaret
Actor's Express (7/25 - 8/25)
One Night in the Hell Hotel: A Nerdy Burlesque and Sing-a-long for Hazbins in Atlanta One Night in the Hell Hotel: A Nerdy Burlesque and Sing-a-long for Hazbins
The Pigalle Theater and Speakeasy (6/1 - 6/2)
Legally Blonde: The Musical in Atlanta Legally Blonde: The Musical
Byers Theatre at Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center (5/3 - 5/19)
Pretty Woman (Non-Equity) in Atlanta Pretty Woman (Non-Equity)
RiverCenter for the Performing Arts [Heard Theatre] (5/15 - 5/15)
Blues for an Alabama Sky in Atlanta Blues for an Alabama Sky
Actor's Express (5/30 - 6/23)
Into the Woods in Atlanta Into the Woods
Bellissimo Theatre (8/9 - 8/18)
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