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Alabama Theatre

Concert Hall ; Historic Building/Landmark ; Performing Arts Center ; Theater

Built in 1927 and widely known as "the Showplace of the South," the Alabama Theatre features marble, plaster and gold-leaf detailing and its original Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ. The Spanish-Moorish architecture and fixtures from around the world hearken back to the days when movie palaces offered an escape from the everyday into the extraordinary. Now this opulent facility is available for your event! The theatre is available for concerts and live performances with a full stage and a seating capacity of 2,176. Private receptions and events up to full seating capacity, and catered events up to 350. Projection capabilities include film, DVD, and Blu-Ray as well as computer and laptop inputs for projection onto one of Alabama’s largest screens making it ideal for movie premieres or corporate events.

AMC DINE-IN Vestavia Hills 10

Theater

Located in the Vestavia City Center

AMC Patton Creek 15

Theater

Features: IMAX at AMC, RealD 3D, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Hot Foods, Feature Fare, Rocking Seats, and Military Pricing

AMC Summit 16

Theater

AMC Summit 16 movie theatre is located in The Summit.

Artists on the Bluff

Gallery ; Historic Building/Landmark ; Studio ; Theater

Located in the historic former Bluff Park Elementary School, Artists on the Bluff is a community of highly creative individuals. The building, dating back to 1924, has been transformed into art studios, galleries and teaching studios. Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 4:00pm. Class schedules vary and can be found on our website. Artists on the Bluff is located at 571 Park Avenue in the historic Bluff Park community of Hoover, Alabama.

Avon Theater

Theater

The Avon Theater is between The Rare Martini and Sol Y Luna on 7th Avenue South in the Lakeview District near St. Vincent’s Hospital. Not only is it convenient to multiple Lakeview & Southside entertainment hot spots, it’s also minutes away from the pulse of Birmingham’s great downtown & world renowned attraction experiences. http://www.goproeventsolutions.com/page.php?id=8

Birmingham Improv Theatre

Theater

Located in the heart of Birmingham’s southside, the Birmingham Improv Theatre, is the hottest new comedy venue in town! Known best for our Improv comedy performances, the BIT also plays host to a wide range of other shows. We are also an exceptional venue for private events!

Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC) Theatre

Theater

In the heart of thriving, fun-filled Birmingham is the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex. Here you will find everything you need for whatever your event requires: an array of top-notch facilities, 757 adjoining guest rooms, a helpful event staff and a host of specialized services. 220,000 square feet of exhibit space is just the beginning. One of the most compelling features of the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex is that it has all the right components ….. in one complex. The centrally located, modern facility includes: * 220,000 square feet of flexible space in the Exhibition Hall. * 100,000 square feet in 74 meeting rooms. * The Medical Forum, a conference facility unlike any other in the country that’s equipped with state-of-the-art communications technology. * A 18,000 seat Arena. * A 2,800 seat Concert Hall. * A 1,000 seat Theater. * 759 adjoining modern guest rooms at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. * Complete in-house catering service. * Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. * On-site covered and valet parking. Contact the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex / Sheraton Birmingham Hotel sales office for assistance with your booking needs. The staff of the BJCC is dedicated to the success of your event! Click for a list of current and upcoming events in the BJCC Arena and Exhibition Halls. Click for a list of current and upcoming events in the BJCC Concert Hall.

Birmingham-Southern College

Arena/Stadium ; Concert Hall ; Historic Building/Landmark ; Performing Arts Center ; School ; Studio ; Theater

Birmingham-Southern College is a four-year, private liberal arts institution founded in 1856 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church.The campus is situated on 192 wooded acres three miles west of downtown Birmingham. The College has 45 academic, residential, administrative, and athletics buildings/facilities. New facilities since 1998 include a 100,000 square-foot science center, a renovated humanities center, an admission welcome center, two residence halls featuring suite-style accommodations for 167 students, student center, fitness center, football complex, new Fraternity Row, and an urban environmental park/lake.

Carver Theatre

Performing Arts Center ; Theater

Located on the corner of Fourth Avenue North and 17th Street North, the Carver Theatre for the Performing Arts was erected in 1935. The theatre design was redrawn in 1945 at a cost of $160,000. It incorporated all of the modern comforts and features, including 1,300 of the latest model theatre chairs and the newest development in air conditioning, sound, and projection as reported in a 1945 edition of the Birmingham News. The Carver was one of several theatres in the Fourth Avenue area offering first-run movies to African-Americans. The City of Birmingham began the renovation of the Carver Theatre as a performing arts theatre and the new home of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and museum in 1990. The Carver Theatre operates as a non-profit, multi-use community theatre, open for bookings by local and national groups.

Center for the Arts, University of Montevallo

Community Center ; Performing Arts Center ; School ; Studio ; Theater

The 36,750-square-foot building is located at the intersection of Oak Street and North Boundary Street, and is unique among collegiate facilities in the state of Alabama. It brings together many academic disciplines previously spread out across multiple buildings on the UM campus, and serves as a prime resource for the Montevallo community and Shelby County. The center serves students in the College of Fine Arts departments of art, communication, music and theatre and added a dance program to the college. It features two performance venues, an art gallery, a large social space, a concessions area, a digital fabrication lab, design labs with animation software, multiple classrooms, theatre faculty and college offices, vocal performance rehearsal rooms, a dance studio, state-of-the-art production shops, a public pocket park, a sculpture garden, an outdoor commons area and adjacent ground-level parking. The Center for the Arts was also designed to provide services to the University and community as a whole and will have a positive economic and cultural impact on the entire community.

Chichester Black Box Theatre - University of Montevallo

Theater

The Chichester Black Box Theatre: Commonly referred to as the "Chi Box," this popular space is used to stage a wide variety of plays and musicals in different configurations. The Chi-Box is used for B.F.A. Senior project productions, the annual Directing III class Spring Theatre Festival project, independent faculty and student projects and on occasion fully designed main stage productions! Lines for Chi-Box productions usually form hours before the house opens and its intimate setting (approximately 50 seats) provides excellent training for students interested in theatre careers in major urban centers such as New York and Chicago.

College Theatre - Birmingham-Southern College

Concert Hall ; School ; Theater

Birmingham-Southern’s main theater has a split-revolve-lift stage, which offers opportunities for a variety of set designs. Theatre One, located below, provides an intimate “black box” environment for smaller productions.

Dorothy Jemison Day Theater

Theater

ASFA's 500-seat, state- of-the-art theater on the school campus. At just over 19,000 square feet, it is the only theater of its size in the region appropriate for intimate community and school venues, with ideal viewing and acoustics. Designed as a professional venue, it will serve as both a performance and a teaching facility for the school and will provide an optimum learning experience for the students. The building includes a fly tower for changing scenery, green room, rest rooms and dressing rooms for performers, audience rest rooms, and scene shop for designing sets. The sound and light booth will be large enough for teaching 15 students at a time. Total square footage for the theater will be 19,212 feet. The construction is the result of a seven year fund raising effort by the ASFA Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization that owns and rents the current facility to the school. The new theater will help stimulate the economic development and revitalization of the downtown arts district, which has a shortage of performance venues available to local performing artists. Major donors include Alabama Power Foundation, Regions Bank, EBSCO, Daniel Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Hillcrest Foundation, Jemison Investment, Hugh Kaul Foundation, Robert Meyer Foundation, Compass Bank, Vulcan Materials Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Joseph S. Bruno Foundation, Walls Foundation, and many individual donors. Fast Facts: Seats: 500 Stage Size: 40 x 80 feet Proscenium Opening: 42 wide x 33 high Architect: Live Design Group Consultants: Acoustic Dimensions; Theater Project Consultants Contractor: B.L. Harbert International Construction: 18 months, completed February 2012 Construction Costs: $8.5 million; $1.1 million state and $7.4 million private Interesting Facts: • at least 10 miles of conduit • Wenger Acoustical Shell • Steinway Concert Grand piano • Mechanical orchestra lift • WiFi • Scene Shop, Two large dressing rooms, green room • Acoustically tuneable listening environment • Sprung Stage Floor • Complete set of Marley flooring for dance To Book the Theater Contact Dan Gainey, Facilities Manager at dgainey@asfa.k12.al.us or 205-281-8481 if you have questions or want to book the theatre. More About ASFA The mission of the Alabama School of Fine Arts, a diverse community of explorers, is to nurture impassioned students by guiding and inspiring them to discover and fulfill their individual creative abilities in an atmosphere distinguished by the fusion of fact and feeling, risk and reward, art and science, school and society. The Alabama School of Fine Arts is a partially residential public school authorized and funded by the Alabama Legislature to provide tuition-free instruction to impassioned students, grades 7-12. The school provides focused specialty instruction in Creative Writing, Dance, Mathematics and Science, Music, Theatre Arts and Visual Arts, plus core academic courses necessary to earn an Alabama high school diploma. The school operates under its own enabling legislation, policies and procedures, guided by a state-appointed Board of Trustees, under whom serves a staff of more than 100 full and part- time administrators, teachers and support workers. Alabama students pay a small semester matriculation fee, but no tuition. Students from outside Alabama pay tuition, which the school sets annually. Residential students pay room and board costs, set annually.

Fifth Avenue Antiques-Theatre Downtown

Theater

Theatre Downtown performs at 5th Avenue Antiques, located at 2410 5th Avenue South, two blocks from Workplay Theatre and across the street from The Quest Club. 5th Avenue Antiques is one of the largest antique malls in Birmingham, and is open Monday through Friday, 10am-5pm.

Forum Theater at the BJCC

Theater

The 270- seat Forum Theater is located in the 10-story Forum building. It features new audio and video systems, a sophisticated ETC dimming system, 7.1 surround sound and digital projection and noteworthy acoustics.

Leeds Theatre and Arts Center

Concert Hall ; Gallery ; Theater

Located just 15 minutes from downtown Birmingham, with handicap accessibility and free parking, the Leeds Theatre and Arts Center, 8140 Parkway Drive in beautiful historic downtown Leeds, may become your favorite venue for arts programs.

McWane Science Center

Museum ; Theater

Fun and learning never end at McWane Science Center, a nonprofit, hands-on museum and IMAX® Dome Theater. Four floors of interactive exhibits celebrate science and wonder — from an amazing collection of dinosaurs to innovative environmental showcases, imaginative early childhood playgrounds, and an awe-inspiring aquarium. The energy and excitement of discovery spring to life through an extensive lineup of science demonstrations performed daily by talented educators. The adventure intensifies in the IMAX® Dome Theater, where wide-eyed visitors experience the sights and sounds of breathtaking films on a 5-story-tall screen surrounded by 3 tons of high-intensity speakers. Designed to inspire a life-long love of learning, McWane Science Center has welcomed millions of visitors since opening its doors in 1998. Explorers — from ages 1 to 100 — flock year-round to see, to hear, to touch, and to experience the wonder of science in one of the South’s most unique venues.

Pitman Theatre

Theater

This theater, which opened in 1947, was designed by Birmingham based architect David O. Whilldin.

Regal Trussville Stadium 16

Theater

16 screens

Reynolds Studio Theatre - University of Montevallo

Theater

Reynolds Studio Theatre is located in historic Reynolds Hall. The facility was recently renovated in fall 2004 and we continue to make upgrades. The majority of the University’s Theatre Department main stage shows are produced in this flexible, 160 seat studio theatre space.

Samford University Wright Center

Concert Hall ; Historic Building/Landmark ; Performing Arts Center ; School ; Theater

The Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center was built on Samford University’s campus in 1976 to serve the needs of the university. This beautiful building and performance space has become an arts-oriented facility that serves a larger community, where people can gather, learn and experience top-quality entertainment.

South City Theatre

Theater

SCT, the best “little” theatre in Alabama, is located in Alpine Square, 2969 Pelham Parkway, Suites J and K., Pelham, AL. We produce six mainstage plays each year, attracting approximately 3,000 audience members annually. Our children’s program offers two workshops during the school year and a two-week summer camp, which allow children ages 9-16 the opportunity to study the craft of acting by producing a production. SCT has won “Best in Show” at recent state festivals and represented Alabama at the Southeastern Theatre Conference with “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Agnes of God,” and “Sylvia.” In 2015, SCT and The Wetumpka Depot Players joined forces for a joint production of “night, Mother” which won state and was awarded SETC’s third place in a field of 12 shows from 10 states in the southeast region. Wheelchair accessible.

The Birmingham Historic Touring Company

Gallery ; Historic Building/Landmark ; Museum ; Performing Arts Center ; Theater

The Birmingham Historic Company headquarters at 219 20th Street North is a unique and fascinating place to visit for those interested in history, architecture, and unusual experiences. Very much buried in the Victorian and steampunk/dieselpunk aesthetic (with a liberal dose of a certain boy wizard), the company’s knowledgeable guides provide a captivating and immersive experience for visitors. Visitors can immerse themselves in the atmosphere and gain a sense of the rich history and culture of Birmingham. Inside the shop, visitors can browse a range of themed merchandise, including clothing, jewelry, accessories, and home decor. The products are carefully curated to reflect the aesthetic and ethos of the history of Birmingham, with a focus on quality craftsmanship and attention to detail. Overall, the Birmingham Historic Touring Company shop is a must-visit destination for anyone interested in the history, food, and architecture of Birmingham.

The Edge 12

Theater

Our passion is movies and providing the best theater experience to our customers. All auditoriums at The Edge feature wall to wall screens, stadium seating with 18 inch risers for perfectly clear, unobstructed view, high back rocker chairs with articulating backs and lifting cup holder armrests for the ultimate in comfort and state-of-the-art Dolby Digital surround!

University of Alabama Concert Hall

Arena/Stadium ; Concert Hall ; Historic Building/Landmark ; Performing Arts Center ; School ; Theater

The Concert Hall is the centerpiece of the Moody Music Building. The Frank M. Moody Music Building is the home of UA’s School of Music and has 105,000 square feet of floor space used for rehearsal rooms, a recital hall, a media center, research labs for music education and therapy, and studios equipped for electronic and computer music among other things. The building also contains a 1,000-seat concert hall, patterned after the home of the Vienna Philharmonic, and a Holtkamp organ which stands three stories high with four manuals. The flowers, trees, and benches of the building’s large courtyard complete the picture of a modern facility in a graceful setting. The Moody Music Building is named for Frank Maxwell Moody, an 1897 UA graduate who went on to become a Tuscaloosa banker and dedicated community leader. The building opened in 1988 with a series of concerts that included a performance by Metropolitan Opera soprano Marilyn Horne.

University of Montevallo

Arena/Stadium ; Concert Hall ; Performing Arts Center ; School ; Theater

From the North: Take I-65 South to the Exit 238. Turn right off the ramp onto Highway 31. At the first traffic light, turn left on Highway 119. Take Highway 119 to downtown Montevallo (eleven miles). At the second traffic light in Montevallo (Boundary Street) turn right and the entrance to campus is two blocks ahead. From the West: Travel I-20/59 West to I-459 by-pass. Continue on I-459 to I-65 South. Take I-65 South to Exit 238. Turn right off the ramp onto Highway 31. At the first traffic light, turn left on Highway 119. Take Highway 119 to downtown Montevallo (eleven miles). At the second traffic light in Montevallo (Boundary Street) turn right and the entrance to campus is two blocks ahead. From the East: Travel I-20/I-59 West to I-459 South toward Montgomery. Continue on I-459 to I-65 South. Take I-65 South to Exit 238. Turn right off the ramp onto Highway 31. At the first traffic light, turn left on Highway 119. Take Highway 119 to downtown Montevallo (eleven miles). At the second traffic light in Montevallo (Boundary Street) turn right and the entrance to campus is two blocks ahead. From the South: Take I-65 North to Exit 231. Turn right onto Highway 31 North. Take Highway 31 to County Road 22. Turn left on Highway 22 and travel to Highway 119. Turn left on Highway 119 South to downtown Montevallo. At second traffic light turn right on Boundary Street. Entrance to campus is two blocks ahead.

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