146 stories by "Andrew Alexander"
Editor'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 calendar page.…
Can the spirit of Nina Simone be adequately captured and conveyed in a musical revue? The answer, based on the current production of Simply Simone at Theatrical Outfit through April 15, I'd …
Saturday will mark a milestone for the city's dance community when the region's first venue designed specifically for dance opens in Marietta with a performance of Metamorphosis by the Ke…
George Saunders, the annual Art Papers Auction and "Life Interrupted" are just a few of the highlights.
A beloved Atlanta celebrity gets his due in Synchronicity Theatre's charming children's production of The One and Only Ivan running through February 21. Ivan the Gorilla lived at the Atlanta…
Beyond their both being Southern cities, Atlanta and New Orleans often don't seem to have a lot in common, but theater artist Jeff Becker points out that both cities have been subject to the…
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 there,…
Comedians 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…
You 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 politic…
The 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 Flo…
"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 incarnat…
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Tyranny 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…
The 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…
The 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.
Have 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,…
There'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.
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"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 Experien…
The 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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A 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 producti…
Even 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…
The 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 …
Process 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 eve …
