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 02:01PM“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 05:50PMThe 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 02:01PMThanks to Tyler Perry’s studio and a flurry of big-budget movie shoots, theater performers have an easier time supporting themselves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMWhat 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 12:59PMVioleta (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 12:59PMEighteen months ago, Pop-Up Magazine invited Peabody Award-winning radio producer Tina Antolini to step out of the studio and go on tour telling stories in front a live audience. Pop-Up Maga…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMTopher Payne has developed a reputation for creating insightful women characters, and a strong all-female ensemble cast illuminates his hilarious script in the world premiere of Morningside,…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 12:59PMIn the 2012 Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, screenwriter Lucy Alibar tells the story of a father and daughter who find their marginal existence living on the Louisiana bayo…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 02:14PMAn 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 08:42AM“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 08:59AMA 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 02:01PMIf 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 01:02PMWhen 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 12:01PMViola 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 01:01PMThe 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 09:01AMThe 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 01:01PMDuring 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 10:59AMOn 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 12:01PM“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 12:59PMWhen 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 01:01PMThere 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 11:25AMIn 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 12:59PMWhatever 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 02:26PMTroy 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 03:00PMJanine 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 01:00PM“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 01:00PMThe 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 04:18PMPlaywright 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 01:42PMAll 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),
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