Monday, October 27, 2025

Oakland Cemetery's annual Día de los Muertos festival honors life, death and cultural connection by Tyra Douyon

Each November, Oakland Cemetery " one of Atlanta's oldest landmarks " transforms into a community gathering space where families honor loved ones through the Mexican tradition of Día de l…

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Friday, October 24, 2025

Partners in the Arts: Okorie 'OkCello' Johnson and Chaunesti Webb-Johnson's 'Big Tent Blackness' by Shane Harrison

If you talk with them long enough, you'll discover that Okorie Johnson and Chaunesti Webb-Johnson have a shared artistic vision that was destined to bring them together. The couple wants to …

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Atlanta poet Theresa Davis' queer awakening led to a legacy in neon lights by Denise K. James

Theresa Davis never imagined her words would become a luminous display in red atop one of West Midtown's cultural hot spots.  A highly lauded poet, educator and author, Davis fought the u…

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Review: 'Wolfman' is a fun addition to Havoc Movement's mangled body of work by Denise K. James

Following its success with Dracula: The Failings of Men, Havoc Movement brings Atlanta a monster that audiences have long asked for.  Wolfman, running until November 2 at Windmill A…

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Review: Horizon's 'Heart Sellers' is a subtle, powerful study on the importance of friendship by Jim Farmer

It hasn't taken long for Lloyd Suh's drama The Heart Sellers to become one of the nation's most produced plays " more than two dozen stagings have been scheduled across the country since a s…

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Atlanta's Catfight! fights for reproductive rights by Lee Valentine Smith

The band's multigenerational benefit concert this weekend supports reproductive rights and like-minded female musicians. During a recent conference call with ArtsATL, the three members of th…

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9 essential Atlanta arts events this weekend by ArtsATL Staff

Each week, ArtsATL curates a selection of the most exciting arts and culture events happening in Atlanta this weekend, highlighting nine must-see experiences.  :: Thursday 9 to 5 th…

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Atlanta Regional Commission embraces art through Community-Centered Design program  by Isadora Pennington

Thoughtful, experiential and radical are all words that could be used to describe the Atlanta Regional Commission's Community-Centered Design (CCD) program. Now in its third year, the four-m…

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Monday, October 20, 2025

Choreographer, dancer and Dance Canvas Executive Artistic Director Angela Harris' 11 Good Things by ArtsATL Staff

In 2008, Angela Harris conceived and founded Dance Canvas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing essential opportunities to emerging choreographers in the Atlanta dance scene. Harr…

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Review: Alliance's 'Covenant' builds a sinister tale with a stilted payoff  by Andrew Alexander

"Everybody's got secrets," says Ruthie (Alaysia Renay Duncan) in the opening line of the new ghost story Covenant, on stage at the Alliance through November 9. The warning proves heartbreaki…

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Review: Synchronicity's 'Rocket Men' launches slowly, reaches emotional impact by Denise K. James

"How the rockets were built matters" is both thesis and rallying cry in Crystal Skillman's The Rocket Men, a new play kicking off its rolling world premiere at Synchronicity Theatre through …

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9 essential Atlanta arts events this weekend by ArtsATL Staff

Thursday Atlanta Contemporary Open Studios This event offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the organization's Studio Artist Program, where attendees can meet working artists, view thei…

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and the ASO celebrate the music of classic films by Jim Farmer

Although the 25th annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) took place way back in February, Executive and Artistic Director Kenny Blank knew he wanted to do something additional later in t…

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Review: Staibdance's 'between dog and wolf' performance is tense, gripping by Isadora Pennington

"It's the in-between space of teeth and grit, like that moment when your pulse is racing just before you say something you've been holding in, and you're about to explode," said staibdance c…

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Emory's second Ideas Festival offers the public new perspectives by Denise K. James

Grammy-winning country music star Rosanne Cash will deliver the keynote address on October 18 at 5 p.m. at the second Ideas Festival Emory on its Oxford College campus. Other notable speaker…

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Friday, October 10, 2025

Atlanta's Culture is Medicine: ELEVATE Atlanta Festival returns this weekend by ArtsATL Staff

Every fall since 2011, artists and cultural leaders come together to celebrate Atlanta's rich cultural heritage through public art, block parties, music and dance. The three-day 2025 ELEVATE…

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Stanley Roberts' path leads to Coro Vocati by Jordan Owen

The Atlanta choral ensemble's new artistic director talks about a new season, which begins October 18. When I last spoke to Mercer University associate dean and professor of choral conductin…

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Synchronicity's upcoming 'Rocket Men' wrestles with the haunting cost of scientific advancement by Sally Fuller

The choice for a play to have an all-female cast is hardly unusual, but when the play is titled The Rocket Men, it captures attention. And playwright Crystal Skillman designed it that way. "…

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Review: Stage Door Theater's 'The Cottage' opens the door to both realism and absurdity by Denise K. James

Where better than a cottage in the English countryside for a romantic getaway filled with rest, relaxation and scandalous reveals? The Cottage, a bawdy comedy running through October 19 at S…

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9 essential Atlanta arts events this weekend by ArtsATL Staff

Each week, ArtsATL curates a selection of the most exciting arts and culture events happening in Atlanta this weekend, highlighting nine must-see experiences.  :: Thursday Covenant …

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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Review: At Actor's Express, the line between real and supernatural proves to be 'The Thin Place' by Denise K. James

There is so much terror to be found in the dark, and there is nothing more haunted than a traumatized person.  The best horror stories emerge from these notions, like Shirley Jackson's Th…

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Atlanta Blues Society on a life-affirming musical mission by Shannon Marie Tovey

When Carlin "C-Note" Smith relocated from Kansas City to Atlanta, he was surprised to discover that a city with such a vibrant blues scene had no blues organization. "There wasn't an opportu…

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Monday, October 6, 2025

The Art of Pride: ArtsATL's guide to Atlanta Pride 2025 by Andrew Alexander

Atlanta Pride returns this weekend, filling the city with music, drag, dance, film and art under the banner of this year's theme, "Rooted in Resilience." From the rainbow-hued bustle of Pied…

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Saturday, October 4, 2025

Review: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra kicks off season with transcendental artistry by Jordan Owen

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2025-26 season, its fourth with conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, on Friday, October 3, with an evening of Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar and Richard S…

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Pride weekend marks a bittersweet goodbye for Adeem the Artist by Andrew Alexander

Atlanta Pride is usually a launchpad for parades and parties, not bittersweet goodbyes. But this year's festival will mark a significant farewell. On October 11, Adeem the Artist, the outspo…

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Center for Puppetry Arts' Latine rock musical 'La Cucarachita Martina' is a lesson in inclusivity by Denise K. James

Puppetry is a globally diverse art form, taking inspiration from countless cultures and histories around the world. This year, the Center for Puppetry Arts is taking the opportunity to showc…

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9 essential Atlanta arts events this weekend by ArtsATL Staff

Each week, ArtsATL curates a selection of the most exciting arts and culture events happening in Atlanta this weekend, highlighting nine must-see experiences.  :: Thursday The Georg…

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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Arts Agenda: Halloween by ArtsATL Staff

Each week, ArtsATL delivers a critic's short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one discipline or venue type in the kaleidosco…

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Monday, September 29, 2025

Photo Essay: Goat Farm activates 12-acre property with immersive sights, sounds and experiences for SITE 2025 by Isadora Pennington

On Saturday, September 27, the grounds of the Goat Farm in West Midtown Atlanta came alive for SITE, the second annual grand celebration of art and culture. The one-night-only event brought …

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Review: Ben Kassoy offers surprising, genre-bending performance in 'The Funny Thing About a Panic Attack' by Isadora Pennington

"[Y]ou think you're dying. But you're not," begins Ben Kassoy's poem "The Funny Thing About a Panic Attack." His one-man show of the same title, which ran at Emory University's Schwartz Cent…

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Friday, September 26, 2025

Longtime dinner theater's new shows involve audience for pop culture mysteries by Denise K. James

For generations of Atlantans, Agatha's " A Taste of Mystery was the place to celebrate birthdays and to impress out-of-town guests. Opened in 1988 across from the Fox Theatre the dinner thea…

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