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ALL OUT ON STAGE Columbus

Springer Opera CIVIC CENTER
HOUSE With 10,000 arena seats, the Columbus Civic
Center events include the circus, Disney on
Catch a musical, drama or comedy at the Ice, Columbus Lions professional indoor
Springer Opera House, the State Theater of football, concerts, comedy shows, pro bull
Georgia. Opened in 1871, the Springer is now riding and more.
one of only seven producing theatres that is 400 4th St. | 706.653.4460 |columbusciviccenter.org
also a National Historic Landmark. Legends
who have appeared on the Springer’s stage “Good experience and
include Buffalo Bill, John Phillip Sousa, Ma highly recommended!”
Rainey, Ethel Barrymore, Chet Atkins, Burt
Reynolds and Garrison Keillor.
Today, the Springer is home to the Georgia The Joyce & Henry Schwob
Repertory Theatre which produces Mainstage, SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Studio II and Children’s series of musicals and Columbus State University’s Schwob
plays, and the Springer Theatre Academy. School of Music hosts more than 250
103 Tenth St. | 706.327.3688 performances every year, most of them
springeroperahouse.org
free to the public.
706.641.5124 | music.columbusstate.edu
“They really offer very good shows with
excellent talent.”
“A musical jewel of the
entire Southeast.”
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RIVERSIDE COMPLEX
The Columbus State University Department of
Theatre’s Riverside Theatre Complex houses
three state-of-the-art performance spaces for
over 75 public theatre performances each year.
6 West 10th St. | 706.507.8444
columbusstate.edu/theatre

Historic
LIBERTY THEATRE
Opened in 1924, Columbus’ first Black theatre
continues to host musical events, plays, and
classes. Placed on the National Register of
Historic Places in 1984, the theater has hosted
such ground-breaking performers as Marian
Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Columbus’ own Ma
Rainey and her protégé, Bessie Smith.
821 8th Ave. | 706.653.7566 | libertycolumbusga.org

“I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.“
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