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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Review: "Boy" tells its story respectfully and emotionally, but feels painfully voyeuristic by Andrew Alexander

The parents in Boy, playwright Anna Ziegler's 2016 drama currently getting its first Atlanta production at Theatrical Outfit through October 15, face a terrible decision. Their newborn son's…

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Review: "Dogs of Rwanda" brings a moving, one-man play into living rooms across the city by Andrew Alexander

Think of Dogs of Rwanda, the new one-man show from Atlanta's Out of Hand Theater, as a long, heartfelt confession that takes place in your neighbor's living room. Instead of performing playw…

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Review: "Abigail/1702" builds on Arthur Miller's "Crucible" but unwisely veers from his intent by Andrew Alexander

A bit of old writing advice has it that a story should start, not at the beginning, but in media res, right in the middle of things. The new play Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, curr…

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Review: Emory's "Midnight Pillow" evokes Mary Shelley for a compelling walk to the edge by Andrew Alexander

I've been to plenty of shows that aim for a unified effect but end up failing to bring together disparate elements. The production Midnight Pillow, running at Theater Emory through October 1…

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Review: Synchronicity smartly brings "Sense and Sensibility" to the formal world of Jane Austen by Andrew Alexander

The things that happen to a pair of pretty young women without any money or any property aren't, well, particularly pretty. The two decent, likeable, but very different young sisters at the …

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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Review: "Bengal Tiger" is a self-conscious trek to Baghdad with characters that don't connect by Andrew Alexander

I ended up more puzzled by the success of Rajiv Joseph's acclaimed Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated 2009 play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo than I was moved at the recent Atlanta premiere of t…

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Review: Alliance serves up empty calories as it takes to the road with "Shakespeare in Love" by Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer

Shakespeare in Love, the Oscar-winning 1998 film, has lately been turned into a play, and it's currently making the rounds at a number of regional theaters around the country. A new producti…

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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Preview: The 2017"18 theater season sees Alliance on the move, politically relevant dramas by Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer

The fall is the most exciting time of year for Atlanta theater, and this fall has the added edge of the Alliance Theatre's nomadic season while its main theater space undergoes a complete re…

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Friday, August 25, 2017

Preview: Concert for America brings Broadway stars together for the progressive cause by Andrew Alexander

Has the state of the world got you in the doldrums? Feeling down? Hopeless? May I suggest a show tune? Broadway has always projected a spirit of communal, can-do pluckiness in the face of ad…

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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Review: "An American in Paris" isn't perfect, but it's carried by those amazing Gershwin tunes by Andrew Alexander

"I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?" The creators of the new Broadway musical An American in Paris, the touring version of which is at Atlanta's Fox Theatre through August 20, have place…

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What to see, hear and do this week, August 17"24 by Andrew Alexander

Every week we're striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Review: Essential's "Another Mother" hits bumps, but unique premise is ultimately satisfying by Andrew Alexander

Fraught mother-daughter relationships have long been fodder for dramatists, but the mothers and daughters that populate the new play Another Mother, on stage at Essential Theatre through Aug…

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Review: Serenbe's high-reaching, sharp take on "Cabaret" hits all the right notes, old chum by Andrew Alexander

"What good is sitting alone in your room?" asks a character in the title number of the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret. Well, the short answer is: there isn't any good in that at all, certainl…

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Preview: How Decatur-born Lauren Gunderson became the most popular living playwright in America by Andrew Alexander

Atlanta clearly has a thing for the plays of Lauren Gunderson. Just ahead, there's Essential Theatre's production of her new play about 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, Ada and the M…

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Review: "Karon the Barbarian" at Dad's Garage is a silly summer show with lots of charm by Andrew Alexander

Times being what they are, you may just find yourself in the mood for a show that has nothing to do with anything that matters to anyone. The charmingly silly Karon the Barbarian at Dad's Ga…

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Review: Actor's Express' "Little Shop of Horrors" charms in its new take on the campy classic by Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer

Don't feed the plants! That's the famous final warning from Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's monster hit of a campy monster-musical Little Shop of Horrors, which has had countless productions…

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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Review: Serenbe's ambitious "Macbeth" lives and dies with nature's inconvenient surprises by Andrew Alexander

What happens when an elaborate, big-budget, outdoor production of Macbeth opens in perpetually dry, drought-ridden Georgia? The wettest summer in memory, of course, with evening after evenin…

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

What to see, hear and do this week, June 29"July 5 by Andrew Alexander

Every week we're striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

What to see, hear and do this week, June 22"28 by Andrew Alexander

Every week we're striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Review: Serenbe's "Robin Hood" full of swashbuckling fun for kids and … swooping via zip lines by Andrew Alexander

As we all know, Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor, but in Serenbe Playhouse's new kid-centered production of the famous legend, he also zips through the trees. The compan…

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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Review: "Eclipsed" demonstrates the power of theater to articulate the world in which we live by Andrew Alexander

Characters in a drama, almost by definition, are thrust into difficult circumstances, and it's hard to imagine situations more dire than the ones experienced by the characters in the show Ec…

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Review: Brad Zimmerman mines his career as a waiter for timeless jokes in funny stand-up show by Andrew Alexander

There are late bloomers, and there are underachievers, and then there’s Brad Zimmerman. For 29 years — "longer than is understandable," as he puts it — Zimmerman waited tab…

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Review: "Curious Queer Encounters" is an often haunting hodgepodge of gay identity by Andrew Alexander

The encounters are certainly of the queer and curious kind in the new production Curious Queer Encounters at 7 Stages through May 14. The unusual show, part of an ongoing series, presents se…

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Review: Out Front's "Most Fabulous Story" is low on actual shock value, but it sure is funny by Andrew Alexander

Perhaps the most shocking thing about The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is that there's so little that's shocking or objectionable in it. The charming little trifle of a comedy is currently …

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Review: Aurora's "Pais de Bicicleta" has high moments but sets sail with murky motivations by Andrew Alexander

Three refugees from Cuba take their chances on a makeshift raft in search of a better life in the United States in Nilo Cruz's play Pais de Bicicleta directed by Georgina Escobar in a produc…

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Review: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" takes the Fox by storm with a smart, gritty rock 'n' roll heart by Andrew Alexander

"Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not . . . Hedwig." With those words, the character Hedwig was first unleashed onto the stage in 1998, and that introduction has remained cons…

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Review: "The Duchess of Malfi" gets a sinister and "deliciously bizarre" rebirth at Resurgens by Andrew Alexander

Hamlet famously describes the world as an "unweeded garden" full of "things rank and gross in nature." The thought was instigated by the poisonous mood in that play's Denmark, but the charac…

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Review: "Georgia McBride" is short on substance but full of enjoyably empty calories by Andrew Alexander

What's a failing Elvis impersonator to do when times get tough? Ditch the jumpsuit, don a dress and lipsynch to "Stand by Your Man" in place of swiveling his hips to "Blue Suede Shoes," of c…

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What to see, hear and do this week, March 30"April 5 by Andrew Alexander

Editor's Note: Every week we're striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calendar page.…

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Review: "Simply Simone" confirms that Nina Simone's life is not so simple to convey by Andrew Alexander

Can the spirit of Nina Simone be adequately captured and conveyed in a musical revue? The answer, based on the current production of Simply Simone at Theatrical Outfit through April 15, I'd …

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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Preview: "Metamorphosis" opens Atlanta's own "Joyce," KSU's new theater dedicated to dance by Andrew Alexander

Saturday will mark a milestone for the city's dance community when the region's first venue designed specifically for dance opens in Marietta with a performance of Metamorphosis by the Ke…

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