Broadway recycles, dutifully repackaging stories and ideas that have already been consumed by risk-adverse audiences in another form. With that in mind, what could possibly be more familiar …
It's been said that the most salient quality of an enduring classic isn't so much its adherence to some long-standing, eternal set of formal strictures — as we tend to imagine — …
[This article is brought to you in partnership with artcloud. Artcloud is a personalized tool for curating an art collection " whether you are an artist, gallery, or collector. With this …
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.
The Taming of the Shrew is probably Shakespeare's most controversial and thorniest comedy; its story of an independent woman bullied and tortured into submission (ha ha?) can be pretty tough…
Editor’s Note:Â 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 calen…
The 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 w…
Shakespeare 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…
The 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…
A 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 f…
Autism 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…
A 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 a…
Ethel 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
Problematic 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
The 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
The 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
When 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,
It’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
Stagecraft can have a tough time competing with cinematic special effects. A theatrical trick is seldom as convincing, impressive or immersive as the results of
Could computers ever replace teachers? Those of us who hated high school often wondered. Â The possibility becomes the topic of serious and considered speculation
The 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
Most 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
In 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
“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
In 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