__NOTOC__The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
is a performing arts venue located in the Cumberland/Galleria edge city, just northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. The $145 million facility celebrated its grand opening on September 15, 2007 with a concert by Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder. [1] [2]
Located in Cobb County, the venue is owned and operated by the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Hall Authority and took over two years to build.
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COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE TICKETS
| EVENT | DATE | AVAILABILITY |
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| Max Amini Tickets 6/19 | Jun 19, 2026
Fri, 8:00 PM |  | | Max Amini Tickets 6/20 | Jun 20, 2026
Sat, 8:00 PM | | | Barak Tickets 6/21 | Jun 21, 2026
Sun, 7:00 PM | | | The Beach Boys Tickets 7/17 | Jul 17, 2026
Fri, 8:00 PM | | | Men At Work, Toad The Wet Sprocket & Shonen Knife Tickets 7/21 | Jul 21, 2026
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Design and Construction
The Cobb Energy Centre is located at the east corner of Akers Mill Road and Cobb Galleria Parkway, overlooking
I-75 just south of the
I-285 highway interchange.
It was designed by
architects
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates,
[5] and built by general
contractor Hardin Construction.
[6]
The asymmetrical top of the building rises in swirls similar to a
soft-serve ice-cream cone over the multi-story glass facade that allows views of the grand
alabaster staircase and
lobbies beyond when lit at night.
The rising waves were meant to soften the transition to the
fly tower required over the stage.
Just inside the entrance, visitors are greeted by the
commissioned mural "The Nine Muses" by
Jimmy O'Neal.
The ten 600-pound gold and Mirano glass
chandeliers in the main lobby
and those in the
ballroom evoke the
glass art of
Dale Chihuly.
The interior throughout the Centre makes extensive use of traditional theater colors such red and gold as well as dark-wood finishes. The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre is the only performing arts center in memory to be complete within schedule and budget.
Performance and other venues
- John A. Williams Theatre
. This 2,750-seat theater at the core of the Centre was designed to accommodate both acoustic and amplified performances with the specific intent of attracting touring companies of Broadway shows. [7]
Within the theatre itself, seating is distributed on three levels —
orchestra,
mezzanine and
grand tier — and fourteen
balcony boxes. The most distant seat in the upper level (Grand Tier) is only 160 feet or 50 meters from the stage.
Metallic-mesh triangular screens undulate across the ceiling to hide
catwalks. The stage features a
hydraulic lift for the 30-foot (9m) deep
orchestra pit large enough for 84 musicians.
The theatre is surrounded by a two-foot (60cm) thick
concrete wall on the perimeter for
acoustic isolation.
The Centre's first resident company is
The Atlanta Opera which relocated from the cavernous
Atlanta Civic Center in
downtown Atlanta.
[8] The Opera's first production in the new facility was
Puccini's
Turandot
.
[9]
The facility includes a 10,000 square foot (950m²) ballroom available for event rental
.
The adjoining
parking deck has 1,000 spaces.
It also has access to
Cobb Community Transit, which may move its Cumberland Transfer Station over I-75 adjacent to the center if the
Northwest Corridor HOV/BRT is built. (Currently there is just an
HOV-only exit at this point.) The parking deck for the "
bus rapid transit"
station would be next to the Centre.
Gallery
References
- Ribbon cutting held at Cobb Energy Centre
- Cobb Arts Centre: Everything you need to know
- Cobb Performing Arts Center naming rights sold
- Atlanta Performing Arts Center Receives $10 Million
- Arts center concept falls short in execution
- Cobb Energy Centre, $145 million facility for events big and small
- Virtuoso Performance
- Atlanta Opera to Move to New Suburban Theater
- Skeptics take to opera's new digs in Cobb