The parents in Boy, playwright Anna Ziegler's 2016 drama currently getting its first Atlanta production at Theatrical Outfit through October 15, face a terrible decision. Their newborn son's…
Think of Dogs of Rwanda, the new one-man show from Atlanta's Out of Hand Theater, as a long, heartfelt confession that takes place in your neighbor's living room. Instead of performing playw…
A bit of old writing advice has it that a story should start, not at the beginning, but in media res, right in the middle of things. The new play Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, curr…
I've been to plenty of shows that aim for a unified effect but end up failing to bring together disparate elements. The production Midnight Pillow, running at Theater Emory through October 1…
The things that happen to a pair of pretty young women without any money or any property aren't, well, particularly pretty. The two decent, likeable, but very different young sisters at the …
I ended up more puzzled by the success of Rajiv Joseph's acclaimed Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated 2009 play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo than I was moved at the recent Atlanta premiere of t…
Has the state of the world got you in the doldrums? Feeling down? Hopeless? May I suggest a show tune? Broadway has always projected a spirit of communal, can-do pluckiness in the face of ad…
"I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?" The creators of the new Broadway musical An American in Paris, the touring version of which is at Atlanta's Fox Theatre through August 20, have place…
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Fraught mother-daughter relationships have long been fodder for dramatists, but the mothers and daughters that populate the new play Another Mother, on stage at Essential Theatre through Aug…
"What good is sitting alone in your room?" asks a character in the title number of the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret. Well, the short answer is: there isn't any good in that at all, certainl…
Atlanta clearly has a thing for the plays of Lauren Gunderson. Just ahead, there's Essential Theatre's production of her new play about 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, Ada and the M…
Times being what they are, you may just find yourself in the mood for a show that has nothing to do with anything that matters to anyone. The charmingly silly Karon the Barbarian at Dad's Ga…
What happens when an elaborate, big-budget, outdoor production of Macbeth opens in perpetually dry, drought-ridden Georgia? The wettest summer in memory, of course, with evening after evenin…
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 calendar page.
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 calendar page.
As we all know, Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor, but in Serenbe Playhouse's new kid-centered production of the famous legend, he also zips through the trees. The compan…
Characters in a drama, almost by definition, are thrust into difficult circumstances, and it's hard to imagine situations more dire than the ones experienced by the characters in the show Ec…
There are late bloomers, and there are underachievers, and then there’s Brad Zimmerman. For 29 years — "longer than is understandable," as he puts it — Zimmerman waited tab…
The encounters are certainly of the queer and curious kind in the new production Curious Queer Encounters at 7 Stages through May 14. The unusual show, part of an ongoing series, presents se…
Perhaps the most shocking thing about The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is that there's so little that's shocking or objectionable in it. The charming little trifle of a comedy is currently …
Three refugees from Cuba take their chances on a makeshift raft in search of a better life in the United States in Nilo Cruz's play Pais de Bicicleta directed by Georgina Escobar in a produc…
"Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not . . . Hedwig." With those words, the character Hedwig was first unleashed onto the stage in 1998, and that introduction has remained cons…
Hamlet famously describes the world as an "unweeded garden" full of "things rank and gross in nature." The thought was instigated by the poisonous mood in that play's Denmark, but the charac…
What's a failing Elvis impersonator to do when times get tough? Ditch the jumpsuit, don a dress and lipsynch to "Stand by Your Man" in place of swiveling his hips to "Blue Suede Shoes," of c…