I couldn't tell you much about what Winnie-the-Pooh has been up to since the game of Poohsticks in The House at Pooh Corner, the second and last of British author A.A. Milne's collection …
The classic children’s tale Peter Pan gets a reboot from Serenbe Playhouse in a world premiere that runs through August 26. With a book by Roger Q. Mason, and music and lyrics by Ella …
Clad in a loin cloth and swinging carefree through the jungle, Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan character has been a staple of all sorts of pop culture — books, films, television specials …
The Brits enjoy their meat pies. They have for centuries. As essential foodstuff for travelers in Tudor times, the pastry was just a vessel for protecting the meat, with clarified butter pou…
It's the Fourth of July in a small Texas town, circa 1936, and the locals are longing for some rain and relief from the blistering heat that has encompassed the area. When a mystery man show…
Hats and religion have a complicated relationship, especially when it comes to women. They have been used as a device to impose modesty on women by keeping their heads covered, and they also…
When placing politics on the stage nowadays, absurdism and farce seem the best, if not the only possible, approach. It's the tack of playwright (and Decatur-native) Lauren Gunderson in her f…
Each year over the first weekend in June, the Atlanta Fringe Festival produces approximately 20 shows with multiple performances in several venues around Little Five Points and Poncey-Highla…
Tom Key's instincts for summoning the right words at the right time have served him well for over 40 years as an actor, playwright and director. Theater critic Curt Holman has described Key …
"It seems to me that in America no one is really from here." These words, uttered by recent Ghanaian immigrant Akosua, rendered with humor and sincerity by Jasmine Thomas, underscore Cori Th…
Hamilton is everywhere just now, with good reason. Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterpiece arrived in Atlanta this week (through June 10), a touring production joining Broadway and several cities w…
Playwright and director Marium Khalid writes an exclusive personal essay about her first production in four years, "Sin Piel."
The touring production of the Broadway blockbuster Hamilton arrives at Atlanta's Fox Theatre this week for a 14-day run of 22 beyond-sold-out performances. If you're smart, lucky or rich, yo…
His work tends to resonate everywhere it plays, but Atlanta is especially receptive to the characters brought to life by Del Shores. The playwright, best known for stage, film and television…
On Saturday night, dancers Jessica Assef and MoÃses MartÃn, substituting for Emily Carrico and Jacob Bush, paired beautifully in the opening moments of Helgi Tomasson's 7 for Eight, th…
The new production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide at Symphony Hall represents a historic collaboration between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Alliance Theatre. Humbly treading a para…
Hamilton is the hottest ticket of the season, and the May 22-June 10 run at the Fox Theatre sold out within minutes. If you missed out, there is another way to score tickets: the #HAM4HAM lo…
The title of the play A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City is a pretty good indication of what to exp…
When a concert staging of the Tony Award-winning musical Candide opens tonight in Symphony Hall, actors, singers, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Chorus will share…
Baroque, the American Songbook, and a harmonica concerto will color the musical palette for the mixed-repertory Atlanta Ballet season finale Bach to Broadway, running May 11-13 at the Cobb E…
It's happened — I imagine — to almost everyone who attends theater, film or other kinds of arts events on a regular basis. A patron nearby brings out a cell phone, starts texting…
What if instead of working 40 hours per week, missing time with family and losing sleep, Mondays were optional? What if marriage didn't come with the expectation of having children? What if …
The Atlanta Opera kicked off its penultimate main-stage production of the 2017"18 season Saturday night with a traditional operatic favorite, George Bizet’s Carmen, directed by Brenna …
She was known for her hugs, her warmth and her charisma, as well as her musical prowess and onstage presence. Valerie Denise Payton, a popular local actress and musician, passed away unexpec…
For many of the students participating in this year's Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards, it will be their first time performing at such a prominent event. Some of them also hope tha…