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Greenville Cultural scene

The Arts
Greenville has a thriving arts community, with a number of venues to support performances. The Bi-Lo Center, constructed in 1998, brings national tours of many popular bands to downtown, and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts provides an excellent venue for orchestras and plays.

Visual Art
A number of local artists operate studios and galleries in the city, especially the West End area of downtown. Greenville also contains some notable fine arts museums.

The Greenville County Museum of Art, home of the Andrew Wyeth Collection, was founded with a significant contribution from local industrialist, Arthur McGill. Today it attracts art scholars from all over the country, and contains pieces by Jackson Pollack, Jonathan Greene, Georgia O’Keeffe and native South Carolinians such as Jasper Johns and William H. Johnson.

The Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery contains one of the finest collections of European masterworks in the United States and is especially strong in the French and Italian Baroque. The collection includes more than 400 paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries, period furniture, and a notable collection of Russian icons.

Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre is in its 34th continuous season of live theatre. A cornerstone of Greenville's Historic Westend, this award winning converted textile warehouse, is the home of fifteen (sometimes more) productions a year, including the Mainstage and Edge Series, Shakespeare at Falls Park, Resident Theatre Companies, Shakespeare in the Schools program, Improv Late Nights and more.

Other area theaters include Center Stage, the Greenville Little Theatre, the South Carolina Children's Theatre, and the Cafe and Then Some.

Music
Greenville has an active music scene, with frequent live performances in the downtown area by local Jazz, Country, and Rock bands.

Local orchestras include the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville County Youth Orchestra, Carolina Youth Symphony, and the Carolina Pops Orchestra. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Greenville native Keith Lockhart, regularly performs at the Bi-Lo Center. Furman and Bob Jones Universities offer courses in operatic singing, and BJU has staged a full-scale grand opera each March for more than fifty years.

Dance
The Carolina Ballet Theatre is a professional dance company which regularly presents programs at the Peace Center and elsewhere. Their major annual event is the presentation of Tchaikovsky’s famous Nutcracker Ballet.

Literature
Several notable writers have lived in downtown Greenville or nearby. Internationally known author and composer William Rowland lives in the city, as does novelist and educator Robert Powell. Renowned playwright James Rasheed lives in Greenville, and the late Poet Laureate Carl Sandburg was a frequent visitor.