Topher Payne has developed a reputation for creating insightful women characters, and a strong all-female ensemble cast illuminates his hilarious script in the world premiere of Morningside,…
There's technically only one actor on stage for many of the most memorable scenes in Hand to God, playwright Robert Askins' hit comedy currently having its Atlanta premiere through November …
If you’re a fan of opera in unusual places, you’re in luck. More is coming your way. The Atlanta Opera announced today that it has received a $1.2 million, three-year grant from …
She's not the central figure in the romantic comedy Crossing Delancey, but the character of Bubbie is often the scene-stealing heart of the play. And when the role is taken on by the wonderf…
The songs in any production of The Rocky Horror Show need to sound incredible or else all is lost. The story is certainly fun and weird, but no one's coming for that plot. Unfortunately, a n…
The Halloween season is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that women can be every bit as diabolical, bloody and violent as their male counterparts. Dangerous Women, a new show throug…
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed music by Bernstein, Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Ravel, led by guest conductor Ludovic Morlot and with violinist Ra…
This has proved to be a year of new chapters in the Atlanta dance scene, from the turnover at the Atlanta Ballet to the launch of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre and the March opening of the …
It's been said that the war between the sexes is the only conflict in which both sides sleep with the enemy on a regular basis. If you can imagine that witticism as a play, you'll have somet…
The parents in Boy, playwright Anna Ziegler's 2016 drama currently getting its first Atlanta production at Theatrical Outfit through October 15, face a terrible decision. Their newborn son's…
Think of Dogs of Rwanda, the new one-man show from Atlanta's Out of Hand Theater, as a long, heartfelt confession that takes place in your neighbor's living room. Instead of performing playw…
As he does every Sunday, Pastor Paul (Brian Kurlander) walks to the pulpit in his church and begins a sermon, as the 14-person choir behinds him sits attentively and absorbs the message, as …
A bit of old writing advice has it that a story should start, not at the beginning, but in media res, right in the middle of things. The new play Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, curr…
I've been to plenty of shows that aim for a unified effect but end up failing to bring together disparate elements. The production Midnight Pillow, running at Theater Emory through October 1…
The things that happen to a pair of pretty young women without any money or any property aren't, well, particularly pretty. The two decent, likeable, but very different young sisters at the …
I ended up more puzzled by the success of Rajiv Joseph's acclaimed Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated 2009 play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo than I was moved at the recent Atlanta premiere of t…
Shakespeare in Love, the Oscar-winning 1998 film, has lately been turned into a play, and it's currently making the rounds at a number of regional theaters around the country. A new producti…
As he was putting together his 25th season of programming for Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Robert Farley — the artistic director and cofounder of the Roswell-based company — came to…
In the 2012 Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, screenwriter Lucy Alibar tells the story of a father and daughter who find their marginal existence living on the Louisiana bayo…
ArtsATL Executive Editor Laura Relyea speaks with the new Executive Director of ArtsBridge about her vision for the future.
The city of Lawrenceville has hired a design team for a $26 million arts complex in downtown that will expand the home of the Aurora Theatre with a new 500-seat theater, educational faciliti…
The fall is the most exciting time of year for Atlanta theater, and this fall has the added edge of the Alliance Theatre's nomadic season while its main theater space undergoes a complete re…
Following three successful years at Theatrical Outfit, Lee Foster will relinquish her duties as Managing Director.
The beloved Plaza Theatre, in operation on Ponce de Leon Avenue since 1939 and Atlanta’s oldest cinema, has been sold to Christopher Escobar, the director of the Atlanta Film Society. …
Has the state of the world got you in the doldrums? Feeling down? Hopeless? May I suggest a show tune? Broadway has always projected a spirit of communal, can-do pluckiness in the face of ad…