Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Tickets

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
If North Carolina is rich in nature and beauty, it is even richer in arts, culture and entertainment. The city of Asheville is a regional entertainment destination of North Carolina tanks to the world-class live venues the city is blessed with.

The Asheville Civic Center and Thomas Wolfe Auditorium are two of these venues that represent the cultural and entertainment scene of Ashville.

Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is a live events space located on 87 Haywood Street, Asheville. The facility is an offshoot of Asheville Civic Center and located adjacent to it. The auditorium is the center of performing arts and live entertainment and hosts a variety of colorful events throughout the year.

Seating more than 2,300 people, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is the most popular venue of Asheville that showcases concerts, Broadway presentations, symphony performances, traveling shows, and many other live events from local, national and international acts.

Since the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is part of Asheville Civic Center, most of the people think that the Auditorium opened along with Civic Center in 1975. However, historic traces of the venue reveal that it dates back to 1940"s. This makes Thomas Wolfe one of the oldest performing arts venues of the region.

The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium was first opened in 1939. It became the hub of live performances in its initial years and the fame only rose with the passage of time. After thirty year of successful run, the auditorium was renovated in order to enable it to match production capacities of that time.

In the early 1970"s, Asheville Civic Center joined the redesigned and renovated Thomas Wolfe Auditorium as the premier live events venue of the region.

From here started a new era of Ashville entertainment boom as the two events spaces started hosting one hot event after the other. Be it three-night sold-out concert by Elvis Presley or the Broadway blockbusters of 80"s and 90"s, these two centers hosted everything with grandeur and style.

Today, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is considered an elegant venue that embodies the cultural greatness of North Carolina. One of its permanent resident companies is the Asheville Symphony that has been playing here since 1970"s. Every year, the symphony presents seven full orchestra concerts in the Auditorium and attracts a huge number of music lovers from all over the city.

Besides the Symphony, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium and Asheville Civic Center also host music, sports, opera, graduations and more. While the Civic Center is good for hosting live music concerts, circus, trade and craft shows and large-scale events, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is good for theatricals and more intimate concerts, symphony performances and other kind of small-scale live shows.

A debate over Thomas Wolfe"s outdated structure has resulted in the decision to entirely renovate the venue. However, for the arts lovers in Ashville, it is still the most happening live events space in the whole city. Even the visitors and tourists of Ashville find Thomas Wolfe Auditorium a place worth-visiting because of its historic charm and appeal.

In the upcoming season, the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is bringing many quality-oriented presentations for its patrons. Visit this place if you want to watch quality musicals and plays or listen to the spell-bounded melodies of Asheville Symphony.

You will definitely like the Thomas Wolfe"s shows and will be overjoyed to be a part of Ashville"s most valued performing arts center.