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Violeta (Irma Cristancho) hasn't seen her daughter Cotillon (Joselin Reyes) and granddaughter Prudencia (Limara Meneses Jiménez) in years, and she is determined to make amends with her fami…
Maryland-based playwright Jennifer Barclay takes on the subject of school shootings in her interesting but faulty new play Ripe Frenzy, running at Synchronicity Theatre through May 6. The pl…
Downtime has never really been part of Kenny Leon's DNA. He finishes one project and darts off to start another, crisscrossing the country at will, effortlessly making the segue from theater…
The bold Atlanta Opera world premiere of Out of Darkness: Two Remain debuted Thursday. The story of two Holocaust survivors — one Jewish and one gay — is told with powerful theat…
The national touring production of the smash musical Hamilton arrives in Atlanta for the first time ever at the Fox Theatre from May 22 to June 10. Tickets go on sale this Sunday, April 8, a…
In Danielle Agami's Next Door, Christian Clark and Rachel Van Buskirk, performers with Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, appeared dressed in black on a stark stage setting. They moved across a…
I almost never see a play twice before I review it, but the opportunity arose this week, and in this case, a return visit seemed warranted. The women in Pearl Cleage's Hospice + Pointing at …
Tickets for the Broadway smash Hamilton at the Fox Theatre will go on sale April 8 at 10 a.m. The highly-anticipated show will be at the Fox May 22 – June 10. Tickets will be available…
There is a proverb in Latin American culture which posits that we die three deaths. First, when our heart stops beating. Second, when our body is placed in the ground. And third, when our na…
The Alliance Theatre will celebrate its 50th season with a newly renovated theater space and five world premieres. The theater announced its 2018"19 season today. After a year of performi…
Atlanta Ballet's Black Swan closed to an enthusiastic audience Sunday afternoon at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Benchmarked by Marius Petipa's (not so timeless) classic Act III of…
In the 70s it was Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, in the 90s (on TV) it was Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann and in 2003 it was Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Now a Freaky Friday for a n…
In a tidy coincidence, Annie Baker's melancholy comedy The Flick opens at Out of Box Theatre at nearly the same time that Atlanta film impresario George Lefont announced his retirement. T…
In a Midtown studio, dancers are straddling ballet barres, clumped in hushed semi-circles, eyes alive or closed with headphones plugged in. The bonds of the dance rehearsal are clearly felt …
Standing on the platform of a gray Tokyo train station, 40-something Setsuko (Shinobu Terajima), like many of the other commuters crowded around her, is wearing a sanitary paper mask over he…
Atlanta Ballet's 2018-19 season will feature four world premieres, including a new version of Nutcracker and pieces by choreographers Liam Scarlett and Ricardo Amarante. The company also ann…
If you could save a stranger's child by risking your own safety and security, would you? The moral intricacies and personal strain that an American Jewish couple face as they try to save not…
It may not be profound, but it's hard to think of a production as eager to please as the jukebox musical Mamma Mia! Based on the hits of ABBA — with a book by Catherine Johnson and mus…
On Sunday’s cloudy and misty afternoon, the Riverside Chamber Players performed a concert of music by Brahms and Schoenfield in the sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlant…
The Work Room, created in 2015 to provide a hub for experimental dance and housed in the Wagon Works building in East Point, will cease operations next month. The studio space, founded by Th…
One day she's onstage portraying Joan of Arc, then another she has morphed into a Shakespearean character. Sometimes she even tackles multiple roles in the same show such as in Horizon Theat…
At a time when discrimination and witch hunts are increasingly becoming the norm again, Theatrical Outfit's new Perfect Arrangement feels like a lot more than just snappy entertainment ̵…
On Saturday evening the Atlanta Opera presented the first of four performances of Gaetano Donizetti’s two-act comic opera, The Daughter of the Regiment, at the Cobb Energy Performing A…
Eighteen months ago, Pop-Up Magazine invited Peabody Award-winning radio producer Tina Antolini to step out of the studio and go on tour telling stories in front a live audience. Pop-Up Maga…
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returned to Atlanta's Fox Theatre last week, with Thursday’s opening night showcasing a collection of contrasting pieces: Twyla Tharp's The Golde…