The Alliance Theatre’s 2013-14 season will be bookended by new musicals, but it’s what’s happening on the more intimate Hertz Stage that is, arguably, most exciting.
“The show affects him in the way that it’s supposed to, he looks where he’s supposed to look, and he follows the narrative. It holds his attention for up to an hour, and for a 2-year-old, that’s incredible,” says dad Rob Lawhon. The Alliance’s Theatre for the Very Young program is designed for ages 18 months to 5 years.
The Alliance Theatre is one of four regional theaters taking part in the National Civil War Project, a multi-city, multi-year effort to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War through art and academia. Its partner: Emory University.
“Zorro” plays the Alliance Theatre from April 3 to May 5.
The legend of Zorro has been around since the early 20th century, the music of the Gipsy Kings just since the 1970s, but they seem to have found synergy onstage.
The Kings, who come from France and live there still, are largely responsible for bringing the [...]
“Charlotte’s Web” continues through March 10 at the Alliance Theatre.
By the time Charlotte’s Web began rehearsals, actor Danielle Deadwyler (Charlotte) had already put in more than 50 hours of practice by herself.
“I felt like I was a football player at a combine,” she says.
Is it really all that difficult to play a spider?
It is if [...]
“The Whipping Man” runs March 8-April 7 in the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage.
In the past year Alexander Greenfield directed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, assistant directed Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at Manhattan Theatre Club and Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca on Broadway, and helped stage Glengarry Glen Ross with an Irish [...]
The world premiere of “Bike America” runs through Feb. 24 on the Hertz Stage at the Alliance Theatre. Tickets, details HERE.
Mike Lew describes himself as “incredibly klutzy” and says he can’t really ride a bike.
That didn’t stop him, however, from putting a cross-country bike trip at the center of his 2013 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting [...]
You know all about the “bah, humbugs” and “God bless us, everyones.” The carols, the visitations and Scrooge’s change of heart. You might not know that A Christmas Carol has its own backstage subculture, with secret handshakes, Secret Santas, goofiness and goodwill for all.
This cast of 23 (16 are returnees) will have done some 40 [...]
The Real Tweenagers of Atlanta puts you inside a school assembly, the final assembly at a school that’s closing. Hundreds of real Atlanta tweens wrote essays about what they’d do if their school closed, which gives the improvisational musical its voice. Onstage, four actors represent as many of those voices as possible — in dialogue, dance, songs, poems and a few high-tech surprises.
The world premiere of “Apples & Oranges” runs Oct. 5-28 on the Alliance Theatre‘s Hertz Stage.
Playwright Alfred Uhry, a prodigious reader, once told an interviewer that “me in a bookstore is like an alcoholic going to a bar.” That book habit led to both his first professional theater project, the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom, [...]
