Statehouse Plaza in downtown Little Rock is anchored by the Robinson Center, a performance, convention, and exhibition complex. The feature that will first seize your attention is the south façade of the Robinson Center Music Hall, built in 1939 to designs by Eugene J. Stern and the firm Wittenberg & Delony. Its columns are deliberately classical, echoing the Greek Revival language you’ll also find on the plaza’s centerpiece, the Old State House Museum.
In 2007 the music hall was recognized on the National Register of Historic Places as the Joseph Taylor Robinson Municipal Auditorium, a reminder of the building’s civic stature and its namesake, Joseph Taylor Robinson — a powerful former U.S. Senator and Congressman and Arkansas governor — one of several places in town that bear his name. Inside and around you this complex is the primary performance space for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, a stop for traveling Broadway productions, and a venue for a steady rotation of concerts; the hall seats 2,222. Additional meeting space complements these offerings to the east of the Old State House, inside the Statehouse Convention Center.
Picture the 2,222-seat hall filling for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra or a traveling Broadway show, with meeting space waiting next door at the Statehouse Convention Center.