An old showbiz cliché has it that a musical's success can be gauged on whether or not the audience is humming the tunes in the aisles after the curtain falls. A review can't just end there,…
Comedians Mark Kendall and Alison Hastings satirize the search for love, sex and connection in the digital, social-media-driven world in their new show U Up? at Dad’s Garage, running t…
You couldn't call it good luck exactly, but there's a certain degree of fortuitous synchronicity to the timing of the Actor's Express' production of Arthur Miller's harrowing 1953 politic…
As she was working on her new show Troubadour, Janece Shaffer estimated she had room for around four songs in the piece. Yet once the playwright convinced Kristian Bush to come aboard to wri…
"Make a career of humanity, commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and finer world to live in." …
ArtsATL critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer saw Atlanta playwright Topher Payne's new comedy Greetings Friend Your Kind Assistance is Required (running through January 22) on its opening…
Since 2009, Autism Improvised has been assisting both children and adults on the autistic spectrum learn important live skills through improv. The organization's passion is rooted close to h…
As the teenaged Cory (Jovan Adepo) tries to walk around his father on the porch steps, he says, "You're in my way -- I gotta get by." It's an on-the-nose description of generations of father…
It was a memorable, though slightly down, year for Atlanta theater. ArtsATL theater critics Andrew Alexander and Jim Farmer sat down recently to take a look back at some of the highs and low…
The town of Stillwater is about as pleasant and ordinary as a place can be. It's the source of both satisfaction and more than a little wanderlust for Mr. Popper, the hero of Richard and Flo…
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $30 million of recommended grants in 2017, including 16 grants for Georgia non-profit arts groups totaling $305,000.
William Ransom, artistic director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, has been selected this year as one of Musical America's 30 Professionals of the Year: The Innovators. Ransom …
"To be or not to be…" Shakespeare's most quoted line -- probably the most famous arrangement of words in the English language--can currently be read in one of its earliest printed incarnat…
Amidst the sugary sweet procession of Nutcrackers, Christmas Carols and other holiday fare parading around the city this time of year, Theatrical Outfit is at least offering up something nov…
Though the name BreeAnne Clowdus might not ring a bell among theatre-goers in Atlanta, chances are they'd recognize her publicity stills and posters for productions like Assassins, Clybourne…
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Brandt Blocker, the long-time Atlanta Lyric Theatre managing artistic director, has resigned his position and plans to move to Hong Kong in January.
Tyranny is nothing, new nor is vicious political maneuvering a product of our time. Those seeking to absorb themselves in a different world by ducking into the theater to watch a 400-year-ol…
The current cultural temperature is neither pleasant nor charming, but for those who long to see a fine show that has nothing to do with anything on the news, I certainly hear you and I have…
The new play Slur, running at the Alliance Theatre as part of the Youth and Family Series, should give its intended audience of Atlanta students plenty to talk about.
On Saturday evening The Atlanta Opera presented a stirring and ambitious performance of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night by American composer Kevin Puts.
In a night that saw a slew of Atlanta theaters claim trophies, it was Serenbe Playhouse who wound up dominating the field at the 2016 Suzi Bass Awards Monday evening, taking the prize for Be…
An interesting development happened on the way to the much-hyped teaming of director Tess Malis Kincaid and actress Danielle Deadwyler in the True Colors production of David Auburn's Proof t…
Have you ever watched card tricks on a Jumbotron video screen hung above a concert stage? I certainly hope not, but it happened to me when I attended the touring magic show The Illusionists,…
Synchronicity Theatre has received a prestigious $10,000 grant from American Theatre Wing, one of five theater companies nationwide to receive the grant for a second time.