Live Entertainment in Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids's performing arts scene serves Iowa's second-largest city — a manufacturing and agricultural processing hub whose remarkable investment in cultural institutions (including the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and Theatre Cedar Rapids) creates a performing arts community of unusual quality for a mid-size Midwest industrial city. Cedar Rapids's extraordinary resilience (having rebuilt after devastating 2008 floods) and its genuine community spirit create a performing arts culture of remarkable Iowa character.

McGrath Amphitheatre is Cedar Rapids's premier outdoor concert venue — a 4,800-capacity open-air amphitheatre on the Cedar River in the Czech Village / New Bohemia entertainment district that books summer concerts and festivals for Iowa's second-largest city. The venue's river setting, combined with Cedar Rapids's Czech heritage neighborhood character in the surrounding district, creates a distinctly Iowa entertainment experience in one of the state's most economically dynamic urban areas.

Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids is a restored 1928 movie palace presenting touring concerts and Broadway shows.