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Many thanks to all who participated in Georgia Gives Day. Gifts from 72 donors brought in $6760. Your generosity, coupled with previous donations to our
Director Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World) will appear at Emory University Friday and Saturday to answer questions and introduce screenings of her three-part documentary series on
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.
If you can't find an author talk you want to attend this week, you just don't like books. To wit: The MJCCA Book Festival is
Dr. Ivan Pulinkala, chair of the Department of Dance at Kennesaw State University (KSU), is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the program he founded, thanks
As the first African-American woman named a principle dancer by American Ballet Theatre in its 75-year history, Misty Copeland has a story worth telling. Too
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
When Mel Brooks came up with the idea of adapting his film The Producers into a Broadway production, what followed became musical theater history. A
The Alliance Theatre found itself in familiar waters Monday night as the company swept the top prizes at the 11th annual Suzi Bass Awards. The
Playwright Pearl Cleage's 13-year-old grandson was getting tired of the theater. He had seen a few too many productions of Charlotte's Web and was outgrowing
The Alliance Theatre has released the final design specs for the $22 million renovation that will mark the first major work on the theater since
Georgia Gives Day is November 12, but it’s not too soon to make your investment in an organization that serves the arts and the community:Â ArtsATL.
The genesis of Project Love — the fundraiser to help domestic violence victims put together by Atlanta Ballet company dancer Alessa Rogers — goes back
At least once or so a year, the Shakespeare Tavern turns its attention away from its normal fare to stage a classic non-Shakespeare work. Oftentimes it
When he steps out of the car wearing sharp aviator sunglasses, his thick dark hair twisted into a stylish man bun, I think: that guy
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
So, you've heard that Wabi Sabi and Jiva will be performing downtown Friday night at ELEVATE 2015, but you will be visiting your cousins in
The day I interviewed Mark Morris, he had just received his copy of Mark Morris: Musician-Choreographer, a new book by dance scholar Stephanie Jordan, Ph.D.
All human DNA is 99.9 percent the same, and it is the 0.1 percent that makes everyone unique. For genetic anthropologist Jillian (Bethany Anne Lind),
When it comes to arts events, Atlanta is spoiled for choice. Consider some of the upcoming musical offerings in a variety of genres. From master
Stymied by the rainy weather, Flux Projects plans to try again. It will mount Flux Night 2015: Dream on November 7. All 12 original projects planned
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.
