As he was putting together his 25th season of programming for Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Robert Farley — the artistic director and cofounder of the Roswell-based company — came to…
In staging the classic My Fair Lady, Atlanta Lyric Theatre and director Scott Seidl have made some wise decisions — the best of which is casting Galen Crawley as its titular character.…
She's well past the point of being just the pride and joy of Decatur and the Atlanta theater community. Lauren Gunderson is now the most produced playwright in the country. Although her work…
The irony didn't escape him. When local actor Benjamin Davis was working as an associate producer for The Last Time We Were Here — a musical written and performed by Atlanta artists Je…
Not terribly far back, summer used to be a dormant time of the year for local theater as everyone prepped for the upcoming fall season or simply took a much-needed rest. Somehow, the summer …
Many people approached the big budget film remake of Beauty and the Beast earlier this year with a wary eye, wondering why it was even necessary to re-do a classic. Some people, too, may que…
In his curtain speech before his new musical The Dancing Handkerchief, The Flying Carpet Theatre Company artistic director Adam Koplan called the production — a collaboration with Thea…
The restaurant kitchen of a New York eatery is not one for the faint of heart, at least not in the new drama How to Use a Knife. Will Snider's manic play, running through June 25 at Horiz…
Like many people, Brad Zimmerman moved to New York after college and turned to waiting tables to make a living. He never expected the experience to last as long as it did, however —…
With some reliably talented performers in its cast, a competent, versatile director at its helm and rich material to play with, it might seem like the drama Split in Three — running th…
It started off with just 13 participating schools, but it has grown to involve 75 high schools from across the state. Now in its ninth year, the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards &#…
As Paul Conroy was piecing together programming for the inaugural season of his Out Front Theatre Company — the company he founded and that is dedicated to telling stories of the LGBT …
Rachel May and her colleagues at Synchronicity Theatre didn't plan it schedule-wise, but it would be hard to imagine a more topical play than their just-opened drama Strait of Gibraltar. Wit…
Never one to stage a production without imprinting his own brand of theatrical derring-do, Brian Clowdus and his Serenbe Playhouse colleagues have turned their attention to leather jackets a…
First it was a 1992 book by (the late) Robert James Waller, then a 1995 Clint Eastwood-helmed film starring Eastwood and Meryl Streep. The latest incarnation of the romantic The Bridges of M…
He never set out to be a comic, much less a household name, but Colin Mochrie has become one of the most recognizable funnymen around, known for his spontaneous moments of genius on the long…
Cramming more into its tiny frame than most plays ever dream of, Nick Payne's Constellations is a heady show that explores parallel universes and themes such as choice and chance. It's unden…
As she was working on her new show Troubadour, Janece Shaffer estimated she had room for around four songs in the piece. Yet once the playwright convinced Kristian Bush to come aboard to wri…
Amidst the sugary sweet procession of Nutcrackers, Christmas Carols and other holiday fare parading around the city this time of year, Theatrical Outfit is at least offering up something nov…
In a night that saw a slew of Atlanta theaters claim trophies, it was Serenbe Playhouse who wound up dominating the field at the 2016 Suzi Bass Awards Monday evening, taking the prize for Be…
An interesting development happened on the way to the much-hyped teaming of director Tess Malis Kincaid and actress Danielle Deadwyler in the True Colors production of David Auburn's Proof t…
Whatever can be said about Karen Wurl's new work Dispossessed, the playwright cannot be accused of a lazy effort. Her work has enough material for a number of plays. Running through August 2…
Over his long career, Topher Payne has penned plays that have appeared all over Atlanta, and one in New York last year, but this weekend he sees his name on a different kind of project ̵…
Long before his Hamilton had become one of the most celebrated — and influential — musicals in history, Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights had already made him a Broadway darlin…
It's no fluke. What seemed like a Sondheim kind of theater season a few months ago has turned into an unexpected (albeit unplanned) local celebration, with an emphasis on some of the master …