146 stories by "Andrew Alexander"
Charley’s Aunt is more than 120 years old, and it’s fair to say that the old girl is starting to show her age. The farce,
Kevin (Ben Silver) and Allie (Emily Sams) are in a hospital waiting room on Christmas Day quietly awaiting the birth of their soon-to-be-adopted son. They
The Center for Puppetry Arts recently opened its colorful new Worlds of Puppetry Museum. A much-expanded and rethought iteration of its original museum, the $14-million,
In the opening scene of Brothers of Affliction, the two eldest Owens brothers enter supporting the third, badly beaten and semiconscious, in their arms. Shane
Steve Yockey’s Blackberry Winter is a fine play, and the Atlanta production is knocked out of the park by the extraordinary, brilliant performance of Carolyn
Georgia Ensemble Theatre has created a solid and likeable production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet running at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center through November 22.
You might describe the typical Steve Yockey play, including The Thrush and the Woodpecker currently in production at Actor’s Express through November 15, as follows:Â
Cinderella is far from the best thing that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote, but a new touring production of the Broadway duo’s 1957 musical stopping at
It’s 1965, and Muhammed Ali (who has just changed his name from Cassius Clay) is preparing for his rematch with Sonny Liston. He’s already famously
The cult classic The Ghastly Dreadfuls is back from the dead. Created by the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Jon Ludwig and Jason von Hinezmeyer in
The new play Tiger Style! has an exclamation point in its title, and you can take that punctuation as indicative of the show’s energy level.
The new theater company The Seedling Project makes an impressive showing with its first official theatrical productions, a double-header of challenging plays, Deathwatch and The
The one-man show R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (And Mystery) of the Universe opens with the toss of a coin. The actor never tells us
Atlanta theater company Aris has mounted a solid, likable production of a monumental classic, J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, running through October
Sarah Ruhl’s play In The Next Room, or the Vibrator Play has a double-barreled title, and the set for the show is similarly divided in
A cop drama on TV may require tons of resources — from a huge cast and crew to sets, props and special effects — but
The title of Aaron Posner’s play “Stupid F–king Bird” and its tagline “Sort of adapted from ‘The Seagull’ by Anton Chekhov” may lead you to
The new show “Celles d’en haute,” or in English “Women on Top,” has many rare and admirable qualities. It’s funny, bizarre, inventive, frightening and …
Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest became a play long before it became a movie. The first Broadway production dramatizing Kesey’s
An eager student gets more than she bargained for when she takes on an unusual assignment in the new play Class Act, by Rich Rubin,
If you remember 1980s comedies like Sixteen Candles and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you’re probably familiar with some of the problems faced by the three
"Song and dance" are so linked together that it’s somewhat surprising to consider that the act of singing has remained almost entirely absent from the
New York’s Annie Baker is one of the nation’s top contemporary playwrights, but you’d hardly know it living in Atlanta. Though she has a Pulitzer
The pre-curtain reminder to turn off cellphones can seem a little strange at Lillian Likes It since everyone on stage spends the entire show texting,
We see writer Harper Lee at four different crucial times in her life in the new one-woman show Nelle’s Story, currently at Synchronicity Theatre through
