Purpose of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center

Arts Alliance that opened in 1968 and was a relatively a small performing arts center when compared to the now eminent Woodruff Arts Center. In the initial years the city of Atlanta was less known for its excellence in arts. It was in fact, more known as a business town that housed the headquarters of many large multinational companies.

The center was created in the glory that it exists in today after the plane crash that took away almost all the performing arts talent that the city had. The shock brought forth Robert W. Woodruff who donated magnanimously to the cause. Once the city had its Woodruff Arts Center, they never really forgot the struggle that they went through when they lost all the prominent arts people of the city.

The Woodruff Arts Center aims at encouraging various kinds of performing arts. There is no bias in terms of the kind of performing arts that are encouraged and all those who seek to learn and appreciate these arts are welcome. The four divisions that the center has include the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony, the High Museum of Arts and Young Audiences.

The Alliance Theatre is the recipient of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Awards and has various plays that run in the campus throughout the year. The Wizard of Oz, Into the Woods, Golda's balcony and many more traditional plays are shown every night. In addition to that, this group also encourages and trains new talent that wants to audition for the plays and make a career in theatre.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has received various Grammy Awards for the Telarc Association that it created. Many eminent music directors have led the symphony over the years and some of these names include Robert Spano, Yoel Levi, Robert Shaw and Henry Sopkin.

The High Museum of Arts is a place where different kinds of exhibitions are displayed through the year and the Young Audiences is a division of the center that aims to "transform the lives and learning of young people through arts".

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