Wednesday, 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 01:02PMShakespeare in Love, the Oscar-winning 1998 film, has lately been turned into a play, and it’s currently making the rounds at a number of regional theaters around the country. A new produc…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:59AMThursday, August 31, 2017
The fall is the most exciting time of year for Atlanta theater, and this fall has the added edge of the Alliance Theatre’s nomadic season while its main theater space undergoes a complete …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:02AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Has the state of the world got you in the doldrums? Feeling down? Hopeless? May I suggest a show tune? Broadway has always projected a spirit of communal, can-do pluckiness in the face of ad…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:02PMThursday, August 17, 2017
“I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?” The creators of the new Broadway musical An American in Paris, the touring version of which is at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre through August 20, have…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:02AMEvery week we’re striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Fraught mother-daughter relationships have long been fodder for dramatists, but the mothers and daughters that populate the new play Another Mother, on stage at Essential Theatre through Aug…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:02PM“What good is sitting alone in your room?” asks a character in the title number of the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret. Well, the short answer is: there isn’t any good in that at all, ce…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:59AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Atlanta clearly has a thing for the plays of Lauren Gunderson. Just ahead, there’s Essential Theatre’s production of her new play about 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, Ada and t…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:02AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Times being what they are, you may just find yourself in the mood for a show that has nothing to do with anything that matters to anyone. The charmingly silly Karon the Barbarian at Dad’s …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:01PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Don’t feed the plants! That’s the famous final warning from Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s monster hit of a campy monster-musical Little Shop of Horrors, which has had countless produ…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:01AMThursday, July 6, 2017
What happens when an elaborate, big-budget, outdoor production of Macbeth opens in perpetually dry, drought-ridden Georgia? The wettest summer in memory, of course, with evening after evenin…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 08:59AMThursday, June 29, 2017
Every week we’re striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:00AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Every week we’re striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:00AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
As we all know, Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor, but in Serenbe Playhouse’s new kid-centered production of the famous legend, he also zips through the trees. The comp…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:58AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Characters in a drama, almost by definition, are thrust into difficult circumstances, and it’s hard to imagine situations more dire than the ones experienced by the characters in the show …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:58AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
There are late bloomers, and there are underachievers, and then there’s Brad Zimmerman. For 29 years — “longer than is understandable,” as he puts it — Zimmerman waited…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
The encounters are certainly of the queer and curious kind in the new production Curious Queer Encounters at 7 Stages through May 14. The unusual show, part of an ongoing series, presents se…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:59AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Perhaps the most shocking thing about The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is that there’s so little that’s shocking or objectionable in it. The charming little trifle of a comedy is curren…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Three refugees from Cuba take their chances on a makeshift raft in search of a better life in the United States in Nilo Cruz’s play Pais de Bicicleta directed by Georgina Escobar in a prod…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
“Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not . . . Hedwig.” With those words, the character Hedwig was first unleashed onto the stage in 1998, and that introduction has remained co…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMHamlet famously describes the world as an “unweeded garden” full of “things rank and gross in nature.” The thought was instigated by the poisonous mood in that play’s Denmark, but …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:01PMThursday, March 30, 2017
What’s a failing Elvis impersonator to do when times get tough? Ditch the jumpsuit, don a dress and lipsynch to “Stand by Your Man” in place of swiveling his hips to “Blue Suede Shoe…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:01AMEditor’s Note: Every week we’re striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:00AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Can the spirit of Nina Simone be adequately captured and conveyed in a musical revue? The answer, based on the current production of Simply Simone at Theatrical Outfit through April 15, I’…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMThursday, March 23, 2017
Saturday will mark a milestone for the city’s dance community when the region’s first venue designed specifically for dance opens in Marietta with a performance of Metamorphosis by the …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:01PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
ArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer recently saw the Alliance Theatre’s riveting world premiere drama The Temple Bombing. They share their thoughts on the production, running t…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMThursday, February 23, 2017
George Saunders, the annual Art Papers Auction and "Life Interrupted" are just a few of the highlights.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
A beloved Atlanta celebrity gets his due in Synchronicity Theatre’s charming children’s production of The One and Only Ivan running through February 21. Ivan the Gorilla lived at the Atl…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:01PMThursday, February 2, 2017
Beyond their both being Southern cities, Atlanta and New Orleans often don’t seem to have a lot in common, but theater artist Jeff Becker points out that both cities have been subject to t…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
An old showbiz cliché has it that a musical’s success can be gauged on whether or not the audience is humming the tunes in the aisles after the curtain falls. A review can’t just end th…
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