There are late bloomers, and there are underachievers, and then there’s Brad Zimmerman. For 29 years — "longer than is understandable," as he puts it — Zimmerman waited tab…
Like many people, Brad Zimmerman moved to New York after college and turned to waiting tables to make a living. He never expected the experience to last as long as it did, however —…
On Thursday evening the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presented a performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice at Symphony Hall. ASO music director Robert Spano cond…
If offered the opportunity to stab your master in the back, would you? Odysseus, the protagonist of Homer's Greek epic The Odyssey, certainly would have. When a slave named Hero, however, is…
With some reliably talented performers in its cast, a competent, versatile director at its helm and rich material to play with, it might seem like the drama Split in Three — running th…
This weekend marks the symbolic end of the John McFall era at Atlanta Ballet. The company performs the ballet version of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, which the former artistic directorÂ…
The encounters are certainly of the queer and curious kind in the new production Curious Queer Encounters at 7 Stages through May 14. The unusual show, part of an ongoing series, presents se…
On Thursday evening at Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of music by Mozart, Rameau and Haydn led by guest conductor Nicholas McGegan. The same program will b…
On Tuesday evening the Atlanta Opera presented the second of four performances of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. It was a successful production, …
Perhaps the most shocking thing about The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is that there's so little that's shocking or objectionable in it. The charming little trifle of a comedy is currently …
When mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves sang a parody of "La Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen to one of Sesame Street's most beloved residents, it was light's out for Elmo in three minutes flat. But …
When 24-year-old Anna Claire Walker moved to Atlanta after graduating with a bachelor's degree in musical theatre from Auburn University, she was determined to get involved with the city's t…
It started off with just 13 participating schools, but it has grown to involve 75 high schools from across the state. Now in its ninth year, the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards &#…
As Paul Conroy was piecing together programming for the inaugural season of his Out Front Theatre Company — the company he founded and that is dedicated to telling stories of the LGBT …
Danielle Deadwyler is an Atlanta-bred actress, dancer, poet and experimental filmmaker whose hip-hop alter-ego, didi xio, bears zero resemblance to the sunny, bubbly, quick-to-giggle woman s…
Charleston's Spoleto Festival, USA is the South's great "arts extravaganza." It's just the biggest, broadest and boldest summer festival on the arts calendar, perhaps in the whole country. T…
Three refugees from Cuba take their chances on a makeshift raft in search of a better life in the United States in Nilo Cruz's play Pais de Bicicleta directed by Georgina Escobar in a produc…
The distance Kenny Leon has traveled from his childhood home in rural Florida to Southwest Atlanta, where he is cofounder and artistic director of the True Colors Theatre Company, can be mea…
"Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not . . . Hedwig." With those words, the character Hedwig was first unleashed onto the stage in 1998, and that introduction has remained cons…
Hamlet famously describes the world as an "unweeded garden" full of "things rank and gross in nature." The thought was instigated by the poisonous mood in that play's Denmark, but the charac…
Rachel May and her colleagues at Synchronicity Theatre didn't plan it schedule-wise, but it would be hard to imagine a more topical play than their just-opened drama Strait of Gibraltar. Wit…
On Tuesday evening at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, the Atlanta Opera presented a performance of Don Pasquale, a comic opera by early 19th-century Italian composer Gaetano Donizett…
What's a failing Elvis impersonator to do when times get tough? Ditch the jumpsuit, don a dress and lipsynch to "Stand by Your Man" in place of swiveling his hips to "Blue Suede Shoes," of c…
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Can the spirit of Nina Simone be adequately captured and conveyed in a musical revue? The answer, based on the current production of Simply Simone at Theatrical Outfit through April 15, I'd …