192 stories by "Jim Farmer"
It hasn't taken long for Lloyd Suh's drama The Heart Sellers to become one of the nation's most produced plays " more than two dozen stagings have been scheduled across the country since a s…
Although the 25th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) took place way back in February, Executive and Artistic Director Kenny Blank knew he wanted to do something additional later in t…
A decade ago, Danielle DeMatteo, the artistic director of SheNYC Arts, was in New York, working a lot of different positions in the Broadway and off-Broadway scene, and met other young women…
At a time when the organization is preparing for its upcoming new season, the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is navigating a challenging period of change following the dismissal of some of …
The Overture Series, funded in 2019 by Cobb PARKS to present concert versions of rarely staged musicals, may be gone, but Jono Davis " who conceived and produced the original series " hopes …
In the five years that he was able to travel around the world with his plays A Southern Fairytale and At Birth, actor and playwright Ty Autry was fortunate enough to be part of several perfo…
Exactly who Emilia Bassano was has long been disputed, but there's no mistaking that she is the thoroughly intriguing center of the new play The Dark Lady, making its U.S. premiere at Synchr…
It's billed as a comedy, and Horizon Theatre's new Laughs in Spanish certainly does what it can to make its audience chuckle. Ironically, though, it's the dramatic moments of the work that a…
When Jono Davis, artistic director of the Jennie T. Anderson Overture Series,...
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In a theater season heavy with noteworthy productions, it was the Alliance...
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Heidi Cline McKerley has known she was going to be directing Natasha,...
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The musical A New Brain is something of an anomaly. It's a...
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As soon as he heard the unsettling news last spring that Atlanta...
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Staging an annual play festival brings with it all sorts of artistic...
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When he was in his early 20s, actor and writer Robert Galinsky...
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A circa 1997 drama about a girls' high school basketball team from...
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As Jamil Jude, the artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company, and...
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No one can ever accuse playwright Ellen Fairey of a lack of...
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The posting caught her attention immediately. When former Atlantan Tamrin Goldberg saw...
The post Broadway's "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" tour returns Tamrin Goldberg to Atlanta appeared fir…
During the run of the popular revival of The Music Man last...
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The news spread quickly " and far. A social media post from...
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During high school, Molly Drumm loved acting in theater productions. Yet, after...
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The multi-disciplinary collaboration between Marium Khalid and Michael Haverty on their interpretation...
The post 7 Stages' "Pinocchio" combines artistic disciplines for adults-only retelli…
Although playwright Katori Hall is widely known and respected for work such...
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Twenty-nine Georgia nonprofit organizations have received grants from the National Endowment for...
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