With 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…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:59PMThe most unreliable of unreliable narrators is one who can’t actually distinguish truth from fiction. So it is with Poprishchin, who famously loses his grip on reality in the great Russian…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:01PMShakespeare may have created some of the most memorable female characters of all time, but acting in Elizabethan England was strictly a male profession. Probably due to the aesthetic limitat…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AMThe setting of Marie Jones’ 1996 comedic play Stones in His Pockets (through May 22) may be Ireland, but its subject has never felt closer. Its sense of humor, as well as its touches of s…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PMA drag queen who can flawlessly mimic almost any woman’s mannerisms and — with a little help from the right wig and a lot of make-up — her looks, as well, is hanging out in the…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:02AMAutism is, almost by definition, not an easy affliction to dramatize. The neurological disorder manifests itself as impaired social functioning and limited verbal communication, and drama is…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:01AMA sense of old-fashioned, if somewhat unusual, romance should beat at the heart of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s 2014 play Sotto Voce, currently having its Atlanta premiere…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:00PMEthel Waters may have been one of the most popular blues singers and top-selling recording artists of her day, but at the opening of the
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMProblematic mother-daughter relationships may be plentiful in plays, but few are probably as antagonistic as the one in Serial Black Face, a new world premiere
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 06:38PMSerenbe Playhouse and its artistic director Brian Clowdus have become masters at outdoor “event” theater — and the company is back with their take on
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:00PMThe characters in PushPush Theater’s new show Intersection of Dreams, running through April 5, are habitués at a cool, jazzy, speakeasy basement nightclub, the kind
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:00PMThe Alliance Theatre announced the line-up for its 2016-17 season this week, a season that will be marked by big-budget musicals, world premiere plays and
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMWhen things aren’t going well at school, parent/teacher conferences can get pretty tense. But even so, few of them probably compare to the nail-biting, antagonistic,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:00PMCirque du Soleil is now the largest theatrical producer in the world; the biggest big top ever. Our theater critics Jim Farmer and Andrew Alexander
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMIt’s hard to know what a kid might make of it, but I found the new family show Peter and the Starcatcher a noisy, unappealing
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMStagecraft can have a tough time competing with cinematic special effects. A theatrical trick is seldom as convincing, impressive or immersive as the results of
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMCould computers ever replace teachers? Those of us who hated high school often wondered. The possibility becomes the topic of serious and considered speculation
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PMThe value of a nickel is five cents, except for when it isn’t. As every collector knows, a coin can be worth much more than
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:14PMBoth a Pulitzer Prize winner and a 2015 Tony Award nominee for Best Play, Disgraced is one of the most talked about, provocative plays around,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AMMost people are familiar with Eartha Kitt through her role as Catwoman on the campy Batman television series of the 1960s, one of the most well-known
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 07:51PMIn Decatur-native Lauren Gunderson’s new two-character play I and You, running at Aurora Theatre through February 21, the character Anthony (J.L. Reed) enters speaking the
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:00PM“He seldom laughed, but he often smiled,” is just one of the ways that the chorus describes the murderously obsessive lead character in Stephen Sondheim’s
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:58PMIn his latest work, transgender artist Sean Dorsey gives voice to longtime survivors of the earliest part of the AIDS epidemic, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:33AMCharley’s Aunt is more than 120 years old, and it’s fair to say that the old girl is starting to show her age. The farce,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:00AMKevin (Ben Silver) and Allie (Emily Sams) are in a hospital waiting room on Christmas Day quietly awaiting the birth of their soon-to-be-adopted son. They
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:25PMThe Center for Puppetry Arts recently opened its colorful new Worlds of Puppetry Museum. A much-expanded and rethought iteration of its original museum, the $14-million,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:18AMIn the opening scene of Brothers of Affliction, the two eldest Owens brothers enter supporting the third, badly beaten and semiconscious, in their arms. Shane
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:21PMSteve Yockey’s Blackberry Winter is a fine play, and the Atlanta production is knocked out of the park by the extraordinary, brilliant performance of Carolyn
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:15PMGeorgia Ensemble Theatre has created a solid and likeable production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet running at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center through November 22.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:17AMYou might describe the typical Steve Yockey play, including The Thrush and the Woodpecker currently in production at Actor’s Express through November 15, as follows:
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:02PMCinderella is far from the best thing that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote, but a new touring production of the Broadway duo’s 1957 musical stopping at
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