Live Entertainment in Athens

40 Watt Club in downtown Athens is one of the most historically significant college-town music venues in America, launching R.E.M. and the B-52's, still presenting touring indie acts today.

Classic Center Theatre is Athens's primary performing arts venue — a 2,500-seat facility that serves the University of Georgia community with Broadway touring productions, concerts, and community events. Athens's extraordinary music heritage (home of R.E.M., B-52s, and Widespread Panic) is complemented by the Classic Center's more formal programming, together creating one of the most musically rich small-city entertainment environments in America.

Flicker Theatre and Bar in downtown Athens presents local and touring indie acts in a small, artsy venue central to the college town's DIY music scene.

Georgia Theatre is Athens's most beloved concert venue — a 1,000-capacity venue where R.E.M., Widespread Panic, and virtually every artist central to American alternative rock's history have performed landmark shows. Rebuilt after a 2009 fire with an expanded rooftop bar that has become one of the South's great outdoor concert experiences, Georgia Theatre serves as the sacred ground of Athens's extraordinary music heritage.

Georgia Theatre in downtown Athens is a restored 1889 venue presenting major touring concerts with a celebrated rooftop bar, a cornerstone of the University of Georgia music town.

Odeon of Herodes Atticus is one of the most extraordinary concert venues in the world — a 5,000-seat stone amphitheater built by the Roman Herodes Atticus in 161 AD on the southern slope of the Acropolis beneath the Parthenon that presents the Athens Epidaurus Festival each summer. Performing beneath the Parthenon with the ancient Roman stage as your backdrop, in a theater that has been in continuous use for nearly 2,000 years, creates a concert experience that transcends entertainment to become a connection to the origins of Western civilization itself.