Phone rings. Door chimes. In comes company . . . It's been a summer full of big musicals in Atlanta, and now one of the city's most beloved theaters, Actor’s Express, has just rolled o…
Over his long career, Topher Payne has penned plays that have appeared all over Atlanta, and one in New York last year, but this weekend he sees his name on a different kind of project ̵…
It’s been a year since The Lucky Penny opened the Work Room. The dance studio was born of choreographer Blake Beckham's determination to fill a practical need she had for nearly 15 yea…
For teens looking for the next level in artistic summer opportunities, Atlanta has a number of programs geared to teach about visual arts, musical instruments, writing, film production and d…
Long before his Hamilton had become one of the most celebrated — and influential — musicals in history, Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights had already made him a Broadway darlin…
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ELEVATE, the downtown arts festival now in its sixth year, announced ELEVATE: Microcosm will take place from Thursday, October 13, through Friday, October 21. The announcement was made tonig…
Life as an actor trained Brian Clowdus not to be discouraged when hearing the word no. In his mind, refusing to express himself wholeheartedly for fear of rejection was akin to depriving him…
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There have been countless times when someone has told the joke about a rabbi, a priest and another random character walking into a bar. But, what about the one where an actress, a neuroscien…
Cathy Callaway Adams, executive vice president and chief operations officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, has replaced Bill Tucker as the chair of the Atlanta Opera's board of di…
You might think that nothing could be needed less than another contribution to the debate on the endless crisis in criticism. Rita Felski's The Limits of Critique, however, argues compelling…
The Taming of the Shrew is probably Shakespeare's most controversial and thorniest comedy; its story of an independent woman bullied and tortured into submission (ha ha?) can be pretty tough…
In a time where it seems everyone has a newsfeed, it is hard to imagine a period where living "off the fat of the land" was the American Dream. Less than a century ago, during the Great Depr…
It's no fluke. What seemed like a Sondheim kind of theater season a few months ago has turned into an unexpected (albeit unplanned) local celebration, with an emphasis on some of the master …
The Fulton County Department of Arts and Culture announced today that it has joined Arts & Economic Prosperity® 5, a national study conducted with the Americans for the Arts that mea…
Charleston's Spoleto Festival USA is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the grand reopening of the Gaillard Center, its major large venue, after a three-year renovation. Opera is always f…
Two Moorish castles are built into the ceiling of Atlanta's iconic Fox Theatre. Connecting them is an ancient-looking stone bridge, which serves to form the proscenium arch for the theatre. …
In his new work, Moat, choreographer George Staib delves into memories from a conflicted time in his childhood — when his Armenian-American family relocated from Iran to the United Sta…
The Atlanta Opera's Tomer Zvulun has talked often about his mantra: increase the company's artistic risk and lower the financial risk. One of Zvulun's new initatives to lift the company is t…
Editor’s Note:Â Every week we’re striving to help you get the most out of our city by helping you plan the week ahead. For more events happening in Atlanta, check out our calen…
The influence of the great 20th-century dance masters pops up in surprising places. Take, for example, a Coca-Cola commercial where a man dances in silhouette against a red-lit vending machi…
Join ArtsATL in celebrating the launch of our new website in true summer style "" a good ole fashioned lawn party from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Atlanta Contemporary.
With Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews a commercial success for Actor's Express recently, the company has now turned to another work from the playwright, Significant Other, running through June 19 in…
Mike Schleifer has been promoted to the old of Managing Director at the Alliance Theatre after acting as the organization's General Manager since March 2014. "I'm flattered and humbled to be…