The African-American church has served as the inspiration and foundation for American popular music and dance crazes since the 19th century. During a traditional black
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
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),
Albert has just been passed over for a promotion at the IT company where he works and Jennifer's freeloading boyfriend has just broken up with
If resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die, then the four generations of women in Cheryl West's dramatic comedy
It's 1951 and Delray's juke joint is the hottest place to be on Beale Street, where Felicia Farrell's voice keeps the crowd swinging to rhythm
When most people think of the birthplace of the blues, they may think of the Mississippi Delta or Maxwell Street in Chicago, but they probably
What happens to people's Facebook pages when they die, and who has the right to control that? A young woman named Lillian is confronted with
Greg and Kate's children are in college, and their marriage and their Manhattan apartment could both use a little color. A rambunctious, shoe-chewing Labrador-Poodle mix
An animated, giant whistling orange popsicle pops up on a screen. Lights come up and inside the offices of AIG, the 2009 banking crisis is
Seventeen artists will take over Oakland Cemetery on Saturday and create music, sound installations and performances inspired by the musical history of one of Atlanta's
The City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs' annual Emerging Artist Awards exists to assist artists at a fragile stage of their career with
Jane Fonda workout tapes, Madonna and fish nets were all the rage in 1980s Hollywood, but the scene was very different in the predominantly Latino East
Stellaluna always wondered why she did not like eating bugs and preferred to sleep hanging upside down. Her mother and siblings love eating worms and
It is opening night for the Alliance Theatre's The C.A. Lyons Project. The stage is pitch black. Then, a bright white spotlight illuminates Danielle Deadwyler
Oglethorpe University has partnered with three Atlanta arts organizations — Alliance Theatre, Horizon Theatre Company and Capitol City Opera Company — to present performances and
"I don't like the idea of supporting the arts," says Priscilla Smith, executive director of Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery. "I like the idea of
When Detroit native Dominique Morisseau wrote Detroit 67, she sought to humanize history by telling the stories of her family and community using the colloquialisms
"Truth. Be who you say you are, and show up in the world as that." This is the most important lesson actress, comedian and singer
As an MFA candidate in the Television, Film and Theatre program at California State University, Los Angeles, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni originally set out to make
(Ed. Note: The following blog salon series will focus on how theatre artists are responding to Trayvon Martin's death, the trial and verdict, and the subsequent cultural response to those ev…