Atlanta’s nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre, recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award®, and Jennings Hertz Artistic Director Susan V. Booth are proud to announce the 2013/14 Season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage and Theatre for Youth and Families series. The 45th season includes exciting world premieres, important American musicals, new works by emerging American […]
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical inspired by the true story of four rock ‘n’ roll icons, is making its premiere in Atlanta! On December 4, 1956 an auspicious twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together. Sam Phillips, the “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll” who […]
Atlanta is a vibrant city that host many great theatre companies and a sign that it is thriving is the new companies that take hold and grow. One such new kid on the block is The Fern Theatre, who is producing their second play The Baltimore Waltz at the 7Stages Black Box Stage. The Fern […]
Partly in honor of Giuseppe Verdi’s bicentennial birthday on October 10, 2013, the Atlanta Opera is presenting one of his operas this season, La Traviata (the misguided girl). This opera is a good one to check out regardless of whether you are an opera pro or not. At the time it was considered controversial when […]
“My dear Watson,” notes Sherlock Holmes as he looks into his latest mystery–a rumor really–where the well-to-do join a club to enjoy the adventures of murder or enjoy their own suicide. Not necessarily a hunting club, but one that the members are randomly selected to be the murderer or the mark. The club secretary (Tess […]
They say the cradle of civilization came from mother Africa. No better example of this burst of energy and creativity is to understand the modern embodiment of the life and times as found in Fela. Based on the authorized biography, Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore, Fela: the Musical takes you the heart […]
The Next Stage Theatre Company has masterfully taken hold at the Alley Stage and already put their mark by putting on a wide range of good productions in this intimate space. I enjoy this local company, not only because it is close to my home, but also because the staff and crew makes you feel […]
I must admit it took me a minute to stew on what I experienced in Angry Fags at 7Stages. Written by Topher Payne it mixes politics, activism, and comedy. Most minority groups struggle as they evolve into an organized forced of change and enter the main stream. We are a nation that is now a […]
August Wilson’s Century Cycle continues as Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company Presents August Wilson’s Two Trains Running at the Southwest Arts Center. Wilson wrote ten plays for a century’s worth of work for each decade, and this one captures the turbulent 60’s. It centers on the happenings of Memphis’ (Michael Beasley) café, where the […]
With Atlanta being an international Olympic city, you would think that the appropriate place to visit would be the International House of Pancakes, but don’t dare say that P word (pancakes) in Atlanta–our fair city is the home of the waffle. Loosely based on real life stories from the Waffle House, The Waffle Palace is […]
