Center Stage (Atlanta)

Center Stage is a three-venue live entertainment complex in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. The building opened on October 26, 1966, as Theatre Atlanta, a non-profit repertory theater built as a memorial to Helen Lee Cartledge, who died in the 1962 Orly air disaster. It was rebranded Center Stage in the early 1980s and has operated primarily as a music venue since, while also hosting comedy, professional wrestling, and television and film production. The complex comprises three rooms under one roof: Center Stage Theater (capacity approximately 1, 050), the largest and oldest of the three; The Loft (650), a standing-room space added in 2005; and Vinyl (300), the smallest room, focused on local and regional acts. Since 2009 all three have operated under the Center Stage name and have been run by Rival Entertainment, an independent Atlanta concert promotion company formed in 2004. Beyond live music, the building has had a varied institutional history: it housed Atlanta's short-lived Video Music Channel in the early 1980s, served as the primary taping location for World Championship Wrestling's television programming from 1989 to 1992, and has hosted recording sessions, television specials, and an annual progressive-metal festival, ProgPower USA. WWE has used the venue periodically for NXT television tapings since 2018, including the 2025 Great American Bash premium li

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