"Everybody's got secrets," says Ruthie (Alaysia Renay Duncan) in the opening line of the new ghost story Covenant, on stage at the Alliance through November 9. The warning proves heartbreaki…
Atlanta Pride returns this weekend, filling the city with music, drag, dance, film and art under the banner of this year's theme, "Rooted in Resilience." From the rainbow-hued bustle of Pied…
Atlanta Pride is usually a launchpad for parades and parties, not bittersweet goodbyes. But this year's festival will mark a significant farewell. On October 11, Adeem the Artist, the outspo…
After more than two decades away from the lens, Atlanta photographer David Clifton-Strawn picked up a camera again " not to make art but to make sense of himself. He'd initially stopped phot…
Life doesn't always turn on what happens but on what doesn't happen: missed opportunities, unspoken feelings, the things we wished we'd said. That sense of inertia, slow erosion and help…
Editor's note: In 2013, ArtsATL identified Stone Mountain native John Clarence Stewart... The post 10 Years of <em>ArtsATL</em>: John Clarence Stewart goes from Alliance to Marve…
"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 Citizen Lift, t…
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 collection …
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 f…
The 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, yo…
On Saturday night, dancers Jessica Assef and MoÃses MartÃn, substituting for Emily Carrico and Jacob Bush, paired beautifully in the opening moments of Helgi Tomasson's 7 for Eight, th…
Maryland-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…
I almost never see a play twice before I review it, but the opportunity arose this week, and in this case, a return visit seemed warranted. The women in Pearl Cleage's Hospice + Pointing at …
If you could save a stranger's child by risking your own safety and security, would you? The moral intricacies and personal strain that an American Jewish couple face as they try to save not…
August Wilson's grim tragedy King Hedley IIÂ is currently having a fine production at Atlanta's True Colors Theatre, on stage through March 11. It's a moving play that offers a slow, simme…
The Bacchae has always been something of a strange play, and it gets a little stranger in The Followers, an appealing and edgy new adaptation of the ancient tragedy at 7 Stages, running thro…
The Alliance Theatre and its Artistic Director Susan V. Booth have been awarded a $250,000 grant as part of the inaugural BOLD Theater Women's Leadership Circle. The program supports the…
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a show that could work well in nearly any venue, but it seems to fit especially snugly into Theatrical Outfit's Balzer Theatre. The set, which is meant…
Disney animators riffed on Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale The Snow Queen in their big-budget 3D computer-animated 2013 film Frozen, one of the highest-grossing kids' movies of …
The dawning of the year 2000 — Y2K, as it was ominously called — was not the apocalyptic disaster that some would have led us to believe. A lot of things may have turned to crap …
There's technically only one actor on stage for many of the most memorable scenes in Hand to God, playwright Robert Askins' hit comedy currently having its Atlanta premiere through November …
If you’re a fan of opera in unusual places, you’re in luck. More is coming your way. The Atlanta Opera announced today that it has received a $1.2 million, three-year grant from …
The songs in any production of The Rocky Horror Show need to sound incredible or else all is lost. The story is certainly fun and weird, but no one's coming for that plot. Unfortunately, a n…
The Halloween season is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that women can be every bit as diabolical, bloody and violent as their male counterparts. Dangerous Women, a new show throug…
It's been said that the war between the sexes is the only conflict in which both sides sleep with the enemy on a regular basis. If you can imagine that witticism as a play, you'll have somet…