RIALTO CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Enjoy a free lunch and live performance featuring Dance Canvas, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the art of choreography. The event includes a mix of ...

With legendary status dating back to each band’s foundations in the 1950s, The Drifters (1959), The Platters (1952) and The Coasters (1955) original member and ...

Celebrating 50 years and three Grammy nominations, this versatile all-female African American a cappella ensemble features five-part harmonies with a sixth member performing as an ...

Enjoy a free lunch and concert featuring Atlanta Ragtime Band, a fabulous nonprofit celebrating the tunes of early jazz and performing a delightful mashup of ...

Enjoy the highly anticipated concert that is now a tradition of over a quarter-century, featuring the GSU School of Music’s talented students and faculty presenting ...

Enjoy an evening of harmonic voices with the female quartet säje. Fresh from their recording debut for which they shared a 2024 Grammy Award for ...

Created by Yamoussa Bangoura and inspired by daily life in his native Guinea, “Afrique en Cirque” (Africa in Circus) presented by the Kalabanté acrobats portrays ...

Continuing in the spirit of Washington’s popular Capitol Steps comedy troupe, the musical comedy team Capitol Fools elevates political satire whilst holding a mirror to ...

Enjoy an intimate evening with multi-Grammy and Country Music Awards winner LeAnn Rimes performing career-spanning hits including “Blue,” “I Need You,” “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” ...

Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring internationally acclaimed 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, and eight-piece horn driven klezmer-funk-jazz-rock ensemble performing original compositions and arrangements combining ...

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 ...

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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

“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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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