Thursday, August 31, 2017
An Atlanta theater still believes in “Holler if Ya Hear Me,” which makes use of the rapper’s songbook but stumbled on Broadway in 2014.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AMThursday, July 20, 2017
“Don’t be the old black in the new white world.” These words, uttered by Detective Audrey O’Connor, hang in the air in Stephen Aldy Guirgis’ 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Betwee…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 08:59AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
A lot of people want Herman Camm dead, and no one can really blame them. This devil in a three-piece suit slides into Mae Lou’s bedroom just after her beloved husband dies. But, he also ha…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:01PMThursday, May 11, 2017
If offered the opportunity to stab your master in the back, would you? Odysseus, the protagonist of Homer’s Greek epic The Odyssey, certainly would have. When a slave named Hero, however, …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:02PMFriday, April 21, 2017
When 24-year-old Anna Claire Walker moved to Atlanta after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in musical theatre from Auburn University, she was determined to get involved with the city�…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:01PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Viola Liuzzo left her husband and five children in Detroit to assist civil rights workers in Selma, Alabama, and never came back home. Liuzzo was killed on the day that would become known as…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:01PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
The song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” is perhaps the quintessential representation of America’s enchantment with World War II. It evokes in the imagination parades of heroes going off to …
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:31PMThe Black Experience obstacle course starts at the Middle Passage and goes through the Civil Rights Movement, but, uh oh, there’s a Flavor Flav moment and the entire race is set back. Bett…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 09:01AMThursday, March 2, 2017
The teacher’s lounge is traditionally a place that operates under the Vegas rule, but in Ike Holter’s play Exit Strategy, at True Colors Theatre through March 19, he takes the audience i…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
During the summer of 1961, a few months after the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation violated the Constitution, hundreds of young men and women, both Black and whi…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
On January 21, people watched awe struck by women marching all across the world. On every continent, they marched for reproductive rights, to end genital mutilation, stand against domestic a…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:01PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
“Make a career of humanity, commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and finer world to live in.…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:59PMWednesday, October 12, 2016
When Thurgood Marshall started studying at Howard University Law School, there were 160,000 white lawyers in the United States and less than 1,000 African American ones.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
There have been countless times when someone has told the joke about a rabbi, a priest and another random character walking into a bar. But, what about the one where an actress, a neuroscien…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:25AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
In a time where it seems everyone has a newsfeed, it is hard to imagine a period where living “off the fat of the land” was the American Dream. Less than a century ago, during the Great …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:59PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Whatever happened to glamour? Glamour is different from The Fabulous Life Of television show or the product placement opportunity that red carpets have become, but
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:26PMFriday, April 8, 2016
Troy Anthony Davis had three close calls with death before he was executed via lethal injection on September 21, 2011 at 11:08 p.m. The first
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:00PMThursday, March 31, 2016
Janine Nabers was studying to be an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and had an intense craving to play iconic roles in
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
“Sometimes revolution needs a woman’s touch.” Playwright Lauren Gunderson, a Decatur native, is emerging as one of the most noted feminist playwrights in the country.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMWednesday, December 9, 2015
The African-American church has served as the inspiration and foundation for American popular music and dance crazes since the 19th century. During a traditional black
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 04:18PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Playwright Pearl Cleage’s 13-year-old grandson was getting tired of the theater. He had seen a few too many productions of Charlotte’s Web and was outgrowing
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:42PMThursday, October 15, 2015
All human DNA is 99.9 percent the same, and it is the 0.1 percent that makes everyone unique. For genetic anthropologist Jillian (Bethany Anne Lind),
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:42PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Albert has just been passed over for a promotion at the IT company where he works and Jennifer’s freeloading boyfriend has just broken up with
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:30PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
If resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die, then the four generations of women in Cheryl West’s dramatic comedy
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:12AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
It’s 1951 and Delray’s juke joint is the hottest place to be on Beale Street, where Felicia Farrell’s voice keeps the crowd swinging to rhythm
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:40PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
When most people think of the birthplace of the blues, they may think of the Mississippi Delta or Maxwell Street in Chicago, but they probably
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:26AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
What happens to people’s Facebook pages when they die, and who has the right to control that? A young woman named Lillian is confronted with
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:45PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Greg and Kate’s children are in college, and their marriage and their Manhattan apartment could both use a little color. A rambunctious, shoe-chewing Labrador-Poodle mix
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:34PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
An animated, giant whistling orange popsicle pops up on a screen. Lights come up and inside the offices of AIG, the 2009 banking crisis is
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:56AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Seventeen artists will take over Oakland Cemetery on Saturday and create music, sound installations and performances inspired by the musical history of one of Atlanta’s
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:22AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
The City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs’ annual Emerging Artist Awards exists to assist artists at a fragile stage of their career with
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:11PM 
