EDC St. Charles County

hen it comes to arts and entertainment (PDF), there is a growing list of amenities to enjoy in St. Charles County and the community is ideally situated for sampling what the rest of the St. Louis region has to offer.

Locally, the arts are also alive and well in St. Charles County! Experience it for yourself during a moving or hilarious performance at the $32 million
J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts at Lindenwood University and the
Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building Theater at St. Charles Community College.

At the 36,800-square-foot Foundry Art Centre in historic St. Charles, watch creativity at work at their resident artist studios, take in a class, or view exhibitions ranging from national displays to juried competitions.

Another destination for the arts in the heart of the local community is the St. Peters Community & Arts Center where they offer everything from interactive classes and thematic shows to a weekly acoustic music jam and a comedy dinner theater production.

Night clubs, pubs and microbreweries are all around with two of the hottest locations for live entertainment located in St. Charles with exciting venues all along Historic Main Street as well as the Bottleneck Blues Bar in the Ameristar Casino Resort Spa.

When it comes to national entertainers and other special events, look no further than the 10,000-seat Family Arena which has featured diverse acts such as Keith Urban, comedian
Jeff Dunham, and indoor sports like Xtreme Ice Racing.

For “baseball from another era,” come watch the River City Rascals play minor league ball at the T.R. Hughes Stadium in the Ozzie Smith Sports Complex in O’Fallon.

At the same time, St. Charles County is just a short drive to regional attractions such as the Gateway Arch,
St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis Art Museum, The Muny, The Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis Science Center,
Six Flags St. Louis, Cahokia Mounds, Busch Stadium and championship major league sports teams like the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Rams and St. Louis Blues.