Wednesday, 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 10:01AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Kenny Leon’s new memoir Take You Wherever You Go tells the story of his journey from rural Florida to Atlanta and on to Broadway, film and television. The chapter “A Place to Hear Ev…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Artists of color are oftentimes overlooked due to lack of exposure, and this is especially true in Atlanta. In order to showcase this city’s diverse dance artists and their abundant creati…
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 02:01PMThe classic children’s tale Peter Pan gets a reboot from Serenbe Playhouse in a world premiere that runs through August 26. With a book by Roger Q. Mason, and music and lyrics by Ella …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMClad in a loin cloth and swinging carefree through the jungle, Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan character has been a staple of all sorts of pop culture — books, films, television special…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:01AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
The Brits enjoy their meat pies. They have for centuries. As essential foodstuff for travelers in Tudor times, the pastry was just a vessel for protecting the meat, with clarified butter pou…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMFriday, June 8, 2018
It’s the Fourth of July in a small Texas town, circa 1936, and the locals are longing for some rain and relief from the blistering heat that has encompassed the area. When a mystery man sh…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMThursday, June 7, 2018
Hats and religion have a complicated relationship, especially when it comes to women. They have been used as a device to impose modesty on women by keeping their heads covered, and they also…
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 10:01AMMonday, June 4, 2018
Each year over the first weekend in June, the Atlanta Fringe Festival produces approximately 20 shows with multiple performances in several venues around Little Five Points and Poncey-Highla…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Tom Key’s instincts for summoning the right words at the right time have served him well for over 40 years as an actor, playwright and director. Theater critic Curt Holman has described Ke…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
“It seems to me that in America no one is really from here.” These words, uttered by recent Ghanaian immigrant Akosua, rendered with humor and sincerity by Jasmine Thomas, underscore Cor…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 05:50PMFriday, May 25, 2018
Hamilton is everywhere just now, with good reason. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s masterpiece arrived in Atlanta this week (through June 10), a touring production joining Broadway and several cities…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Playwright and director Marium Khalid writes an exclusive personal essay about her first production in four years, "Sin Piel."
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:02PMThe 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 10:00AMThursday, May 17, 2018
His work tends to resonate everywhere it plays, but Atlanta is especially receptive to the characters brought to life by Del Shores. The playwright, best known for stage, film and television…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:07AMTuesday, 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 10:00AMThursday, May 10, 2018
Hamilton is the hottest ticket of the season, and the May 22-June 10 run at the Fox Theatre sold out within minutes. If you missed out, there is another way to score tickets: the #HAM4HAM lo…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
The title of the play A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City is a pretty good indication of what to exp…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMWhen a concert staging of the Tony Award-winning musical Candide opens tonight in Symphony Hall, actors, singers, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Chorus will share t…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 10:01AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Baroque, the American Songbook, and a harmonica concerto will color the musical palette for the mixed-repertory Atlanta Ballet season finale Bach to Broadway, running May 11-13 at the Cobb E…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMThursday, May 3, 2018
It’s happened — I imagine — to almost everyone who attends theater, film or other kinds of arts events on a regular basis. A patron nearby brings out a cell phone, starts texti…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
What if instead of working 40 hours per week, missing time with family and losing sleep, Mondays were optional? What if marriage didn’t come with the expectation of having children? What i…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
The Atlanta Opera kicked off its penultimate main-stage production of the 2017–18 season Saturday night with a traditional operatic favorite, George Bizet’s Carmen, directed by Brenn…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMThursday, April 19, 2018
She was known for her hugs, her warmth and her charisma, as well as her musical prowess and onstage presence. Valerie Denise Payton, a popular local actress and musician, passed away unexpec…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 11:01AMFor many of the students participating in this year’s Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards, it will be their first time performing at such a prominent event. Some of them also hope t…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 06:00AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Violeta (Irma Cristancho) hasn’t seen her daughter Cotillon (Joselin Reyes) and granddaughter Prudencia (Limara Meneses Jiménez) in years, and she is determined to make amends with her fa…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMMaryland-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 11:59AM 
