Friday, November 15, 2019
Editor’s note: In 2013, ArtsATL identified Stone Mountain native John Clarence Stewart...
The post 10 Years of <em>ArtsATL</em>: John Clarence Stewart goes from Alliance to Mar…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:33PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
The musical The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker’s novel, had its world premiere back at the Alliance Theatre in 2004 and hit Broadway a year later. After a recent reworking and reviva…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:01AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
“The personal is political,” or so we’re told. Even so, all too often there can be a touch of something cold and impersonal about a great deal of “political” art. Not so with Citiz…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:00AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
I couldn’t tell you much about what Winnie-the-Pooh has been up to since the game of Poohsticks in The House at Pooh Corner, the second and last of British author A.A. Milne’s collectio…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
When placing politics on the stage nowadays, absurdism and farce seem the best, if not the only possible, approach. It’s the tack of playwright (and Decatur-native) Lauren Gunderson in her…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:01AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
The touring production of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton arrives at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre this week for a 14-day run of 22 beyond-sold-out performances. If you’re smart, lucky or rich…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
On Saturday night, dancers Jessica Assef and Moíses Martín, substituting for Emily Carrico and Jacob Bush, paired beautifully in the opening moments of Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight, the …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:35AMMonday, May 14, 2018
The new production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide at Symphony Hall represents a historic collaboration between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre. Humbly treading a pa…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:00AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Maryland-based playwright Jennifer Barclay takes on the subject of school shootings in her interesting but faulty new play Ripe Frenzy, running at Synchronicity Theatre through May 6. The pl…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:59AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
I almost never see a play twice before I review it, but the opportunity arose this week, and in this case, a return visit seemed warranted. The women in Pearl Cleage’s Hospice + Pointing a…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
If you could save a stranger’s child by risking your own safety and security, would you? The moral intricacies and personal strain that an American Jewish couple face as they try to save n…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:58PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
August Wilson’s grim tragedy King Hedley II is currently having a fine production at Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre, on stage through March 11. It’s a moving play that offers a slow, s…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:02AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
The Bacchae has always been something of a strange play, and it gets a little stranger in The Followers, an appealing and edgy new adaptation of the ancient tragedy at 7 Stages, running thro…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMThursday, February 1, 2018
The Alliance Theatre and its Artistic Director Susan V. Booth have been awarded a $250,000 grant as part of the inaugural BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle. The program supports the…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 03:37PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
ArtsATL theater critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer got together recently to discuss thoughts on Part Two of the new Actor’s Express production of Angels in America. Here are their tak…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:01AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Kicking off the 2018 theater year with a bang is the Actor’s Express’ production of Tony Kushner’s much lauded Angels in America, which took home virtually every award (a Tony and a Pu…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMLady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is a show that could work well in nearly any venue, but it seems to fit especially snugly into Theatrical Outfit’s Balzer Theatre. The set, which is m…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:02AMTuesday, December 26, 2017
This was a busy year of theater, with world premieres popping up in every corner and local companies flexing their creative muscles. ArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer saw most …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:59AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Disney animators riffed on Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale The Snow Queen in their big-budget 3D computer-animated 2013 film Frozen, one of the highest-grossing kids’ movies…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:59AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The dawning of the year 2000 — Y2K, as it was ominously called — was not the apocalyptic disaster that some would have led us to believe. A lot of things may have turned to crap …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:59AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
There’s technically only one actor on stage for many of the most memorable scenes in Hand to God, playwright Robert Askins’ hit comedy currently having its Atlanta premiere through Novem…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:02AMFriday, October 27, 2017
If you’re a fan of opera in unusual places, you’re in luck. More is coming your way. The Atlanta Opera announced today that it has received a $1.2 million, three-year grant from …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:47PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
The songs in any production of The Rocky Horror Show need to sound incredible or else all is lost. The story is certainly fun and weird, but no one’s coming for that plot. Unfortunately, a…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMThe Halloween season is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that women can be every bit as diabolical, bloody and violent as their male counterparts. Dangerous Women, a new show throug…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:01AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
It’s been said that the war between the sexes is the only conflict in which both sides sleep with the enemy on a regular basis. If you can imagine that witticism as a play, you’ll have s…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 08:59AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
The parents in Boy, playwright Anna Ziegler’s 2016 drama currently getting its first Atlanta production at Theatrical Outfit through October 15, face a terrible decision. Their newborn son…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:59AMThink of Dogs of Rwanda, the new one-man show from Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater, as a long, heartfelt confession that takes place in your neighbor’s living room. Instead of performing p…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:02AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
A bit of old writing advice has it that a story should start, not at the beginning, but in media res, right in the middle of things. The new play Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, curr…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:59PMI’ve been to plenty of shows that aim for a unified effect but end up failing to bring together disparate elements. The production Midnight Pillow, running at Theater Emory through October…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMThe things that happen to a pair of pretty young women without any money or any property aren’t, well, particularly pretty. The two decent, likeable, but very different young sisters at th…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
I ended up more puzzled by the success of Rajiv Joseph’s acclaimed Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated 2009 play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo than I was moved at the recent Atlanta premiere of…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:02PM 
