Thursday, March 23, 2017
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…
SOURCE: artsatl.com at 01:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
ArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer recently saw the Alliance Theatre's riveting world premiere drama The Temple Bombing. They share their thoughts on the production, running thr…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
George Saunders, the annual Art Papers Auction and "Life Interrupted" are just a few of the highlights.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2017
A beloved Atlanta celebrity gets his due in Synchronicity Theatre's charming children's production of The One and Only Ivan running through February 21. Ivan the Gorilla lived at the Atlanta…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
Beyond their both being Southern cities, Atlanta and New Orleans often don't seem to have a lot in common, but theater artist Jeff Becker points out that both cities have been subject to the…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
An old showbiz cliché has it that a musical's success can be gauged on whether or not the audience is humming the tunes in the aisles after the curtain falls. A review can't just end there,…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2017
Comedians Mark Kendall and Alison Hastings satirize the search for love, sex and connection in the digital, social-media-driven world in their new show U Up? at Dad’s Garage, running t…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
You couldn't call it good luck exactly, but there's a certain degree of fortuitous synchronicity to the timing of the Actor's Express' production of Arthur Miller's harrowing 1953 politic…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
ArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer saw Atlanta playwright Topher Payne's new comedy Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance is Required (running through January 22) on its opening…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2016
It was a memorable, though slightly down, year for Atlanta theater. ArtsATL theater critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer sat down recently to take a look back at some of the highs and low…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The town of Stillwater is about as pleasant and ordinary as a place can be. It's the source of both satisfaction and more than a little wanderlust for Mr. Popper, the hero of Richard and Flo…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
"To be or not to be…" Shakespeare's most quoted line -- probably the most famous arrangement of words in the English language--can currently be read in one of its earliest printed incarnat…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Tyranny is nothing, new nor is vicious political maneuvering a product of our time. Those seeking to absorb themselves in a different world by ducking into the theater to watch a 400-year-ol…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2016
The current cultural temperature is neither pleasant nor charming, but for those who long to see a fine show that has nothing to do with anything on the news, I certainly hear you and I have…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The new play Slur, running at the Alliance Theatre as part of the Youth and Family Series, should give its intended audience of Atlanta students plenty to talk about.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Have you ever watched card tricks on a Jumbotron video screen hung above a concert stage? I certainly hope not, but it happened to me when I attended the touring magic show The Illusionists,…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2016
There's a lot to like about the production of Moby Dick running at the Alliance Theatre through October 30 but, overall, it seems like a show still in search of its sea legs.
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PM[SHARE]It's one of the most beloved musicals of all time, both a nine-time Tony Award winner and the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. Atlanta Lyric Theatre -- the area's only company dedicated to mus…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2016
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2016
"Never work with children or animals" is a piece of advice that's probably about as old as show business itself. But the success of the Halloween-themed production The Sleepy Hollow Experien…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 09:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
The melancholy character Jaques in his famous "seven stages" speech in "As You Like It" muses that "a man in his time plays many parts."
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
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SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2016
A play about the therapeutic uses of virtual reality may sound pretty dismal, and admittedly, the unwieldy title Ugly Lies the Bone probably doesn't help. But the Alliance Theatre's producti…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
Even if the only thing you know about Anne Boleyn is the fact that she lost her head, you won't have trouble following the fast-paced and absorbing costume drama Anne Boleyn (currently ru…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2016
The world premiere play Girls Life by Grant McGowen at Pinch ‘N’ Ouch Theatre through October 23 centers on three women, each seemingly attacking the problems of urban life with …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PM[SHARE]Process Theatre takes a bad script and makes it worse with a misguided production of David Mamet's political satire November through October 9. The play is set in the Oval Office on the eve …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Broadway recycles, dutifully repackaging stories and ideas that have already been consumed by risk-adverse audiences in another form. With that in mind, what could possibly be more familiar …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 01:01PM[SHARE]It's been said that the most salient quality of an enduring classic isn't so much its adherence to some long-standing, eternal set of formal strictures — as we tend to imagine — …
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 11:01AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
With world premieres galore and all sorts of intriguing fare, the 2016-17 Atlanta theater season promises to be a lively one, with promising shows all over the place. ArtsATL theater critics…
SOURCE: ArtsATL at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Phone rings. Door chimes. In comes company . . . It's been a summer full of big musicals in Atlanta, and now one of the city's most beloved theaters, Actor’s Express, has just rolled o…
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