Tuesday, December 8, 2015
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,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:15PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:02PM[SHARE]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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:20PM[SHARE]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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:51AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
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.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:20PM[SHARE]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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
A cop drama on TV may require tons of resources — from a huge cast and crew to sets, props and special effects — but
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 04:49PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
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
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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,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
"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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:43PM[SHARE]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,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
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
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Mary Lennox, the heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s so-very-English children’s novel The Secret Garden, stomps and squishes her way through the Georgia mud in an
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Blanche DuBois famously arrives on stage along with her trunk, a potent indicator of the character’s unfixed, desperate situation. Appropriately enough, in a capable production
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
We never learn the exact weight of Charlie, the main character of Samuel D. Hunter’s award-winning 2013 drama The Whale, a role being taken on
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
ArtsATL “30 under 30″ playwright Paris Crayton IIIÂ originally made his mark in Atlanta with hard-hitting dramas like Brothers of Affliction, The Best Game and Chainz/Broken,
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
To say that “Die, Mommie, Die!” is a play about Angela Arden and her problems is something of an understatement. Ms. Arden doesn’t just face
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 05:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Alliance Theatre gives Pearl Cleage’s 1995 play Blues for an Alabama Sky a charming and compelling revival on the 20th anniversary of its premiere. There’s
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 03:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Even from the opening toast, it’s clear that things aren’t going well for Eliot (Kevin Stillwell) and his wife Alice (Angèle Masters) as they welcome
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Storefront Church is the third play in John Patrick Shanley’s lugubriously named Church and State trilogy, only the first of which, Doubt — which won
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