In staging the classic My Fair Lady, Atlanta Lyric Theatre and director Scott Seidl have made some wise decisions — the best of which is casting Galen Crawley as its titular character.…
"I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?" The creators of the new Broadway musical An American in Paris, the touring version of which is at Atlanta's Fox Theatre through August 20, have place…
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The Fox Theatre Institute, which was created to help save historic theaters across the state, has named Leigh Burns as its new director. Burns has 17 years of historic preservation planning …
Fraught mother-daughter relationships have long been fodder for dramatists, but the mothers and daughters that populate the new play Another Mother, on stage at Essential Theatre through Aug…
"What good is sitting alone in your room?" asks a character in the title number of the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret. Well, the short answer is: there isn't any good in that at all, certainl…
She's well past the point of being just the pride and joy of Decatur and the Atlanta theater community. Lauren Gunderson is now the most produced playwright in the country. Although her work…
The irony didn't escape him. When local actor Benjamin Davis was working as an associate producer for The Last Time We Were Here — a musical written and performed by Atlanta artists Je…
Atlanta clearly has a thing for the plays of Lauren Gunderson. Just ahead, there's Essential Theatre's production of her new play about 19th-century mathematician Ada Lovelace, Ada and the M…
Times being what they are, you may just find yourself in the mood for a show that has nothing to do with anything that matters to anyone. The charmingly silly Karon the Barbarian at Dad's Ga…
"Don't be the old black in the new white world." These words, uttered by Detective Audrey O'Connor, hang in the air in Stephen Aldy Guirgis' 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riversid…
A lot of people want Herman Camm dead, and no one can really blame them. This devil in a three-piece suit slides into Mae Lou's bedroom just after her beloved husband dies. But, he also has …
Not terribly far back, summer used to be a dormant time of the year for local theater as everyone prepped for the upcoming fall season or simply took a much-needed rest. Somehow, the summer …
Don't feed the plants! That's the famous final warning from Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's monster hit of a campy monster-musical Little Shop of Horrors, which has had countless productions…
What happens when an elaborate, big-budget, outdoor production of Macbeth opens in perpetually dry, drought-ridden Georgia? The wettest summer in memory, of course, with evening after evenin…
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Born in 1934 in New York City, roots music legend Frank Hamilton is an American folk musician, collector of folk music and educator. As a performer, Hamilton spent much of the late forties a…
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced grants that total $2.7 million for Georgia arts groups, including specific grants to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, WonderRoot, ArtsA…
Many people approached the big budget film remake of Beauty and the Beast earlier this year with a wary eye, wondering why it was even necessary to re-do a classic. Some people, too, may que…
As we all know, Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor, but in Serenbe Playhouse's new kid-centered production of the famous legend, he also zips through the trees. The compan…
In his curtain speech before his new musical The Dancing Handkerchief, The Flying Carpet Theatre Company artistic director Adam Koplan called the production — a collaboration with Thea…
Characters in a drama, almost by definition, are thrust into difficult circumstances, and it's hard to imagine situations more dire than the ones experienced by the characters in the show Ec…
The restaurant kitchen of a New York eatery is not one for the faint of heart, at least not in the new drama How to Use a Knife. Will Snider's manic play, running through June 25 at Horiz…
For one joyful evening, this Friday, May 26th, Atlanta's Drunken Unicorn, a venue known for beer-soaked raucous nights, will host a unique piece of musical theater performed by a lonely and …