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…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AMComedians Mark Kendall and Alison Hastings satirize the search for love, sex and connection in the digital, social-media-driven world in their new show U Up? at Dad’s Garage, running t…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:01PMYou couldn’t call it good luck exactly, but there’s a certain degree of fortuitous synchronicity to the timing of the Actor’s Express’ production of Arthur Miller’s harrowing 1953…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AMArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer saw Atlanta playwright Topher Payne’s new comedy Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance is Required (running through January 22) on its openi…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AMIt was a memorable, though slightly down, year for Atlanta theater. ArtsATL theater critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer sat down recently to take a look back at some of the highs and low…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:59PMThe town of Stillwater is about as pleasant and ordinary as a place can be. It’s the source of both satisfaction and more than a little wanderlust for Mr. Popper, the hero of Richard and F…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM“To be or not to be…” Shakespeare’s most quoted line -- probably the most famous arrangement of words in the English language--can currently be read in one of its earliest printed in…
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMTyranny is nothing, new nor is vicious political maneuvering a product of our time. Those seeking to absorb themselves in a different world by ducking into the theater to watch a 400-year-ol…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:58PMThe current cultural temperature is neither pleasant nor charming, but for those who long to see a fine show that has nothing to do with anything on the news, I certainly hear you and I have…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:00PMThe new play Slur, running at the Alliance Theatre as part of the Youth and Family Series, should give its intended audience of Atlanta students plenty to talk about.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AMHave you ever watched card tricks on a Jumbotron video screen hung above a concert stage? I certainly hope not, but it happened to me when I attended the touring magic show The Illusionists,…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:01PMThere’s a lot to like about the production of Moby Dick running at the Alliance Theatre through October 30 but, overall, it seems like a show still in search of its sea legs.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMIt’s one of the most beloved musicals of all time, both a nine-time Tony Award winner and the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. Atlanta Lyric Theatre -- the area’s only company dedicated to…
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AM“Never work with children or animals” is a piece of advice that’s probably about as old as show business itself. But the success of the Halloween-themed production The Sleepy Hollow Ex…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:01AMThe melancholy character Jaques in his famous “seven stages” speech in "As You Like It" muses that “a man in his time plays many parts.”
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMA play about the therapeutic uses of virtual reality may sound pretty dismal, and admittedly, the unwieldy title Ugly Lies the Bone probably doesn’t help. But the Alliance Theatre’s prod…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMEven if the only thing you know about Anne Boleyn is the fact that she lost her head, you won’t have trouble following the fast-paced and absorbing costume drama Anne Boleyn (currently ru…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:59PMThe world premiere play Girls Life by Grant McGowen at Pinch ‘N’ Ouch Theatre through October 23 centers on three women, each seemingly attacking the problems of urban life with …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMProcess Theatre takes a bad script and makes it worse with a misguided production of David Mamet’s political satire November through October 9. The play is set in the Oval Office on the ev…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AMBroadway recycles, dutifully repackaging stories and ideas that have already been consumed by risk-adverse audiences in another form. With that in mind, what could possibly be more familiar …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMIt’s been said that the most salient quality of an enduring classic isn’t so much its adherence to some long-standing, eternal set of formal strictures — as we tend to imagine R…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AMWith world premieres galore and all sorts of intriguing fare, the 2016-17 Atlanta theater season promises to be a lively one, with promising shows all over the place. ArtsATL theater critics…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:05PMPhone rings. Door chimes. In comes company . . . It’s been a summer full of big musicals in Atlanta, and now one of the city’s most beloved theaters, Actor’s Express, has just roll…
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMThe Taming of the Shrew is probably Shakespeare’s most controversial and thorniest comedy; its story of an independent woman bullied and tortured into submission (ha ha?) can be pretty tou…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:04AMEditor’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 calenda…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:30AMWith Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews a commercial success for Actor’s Express recently, the company has now turned to another work from the playwright, Significant Other, running through June 1…
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