This world premiere runs Feb. 3-26 at the Alliance Theatre.
Breaking into the theatre business can be a long, tough slog, particularly for young playwrights. But Meg Miroshnik, who got her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, took one heck of a shortcut by winning the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. The annual national competition [...]
‘God of Carnage’ runs through Feb. 1 at the Alliance Theatre.
The Alliance Theatre’s production of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage has some mighty big shoes to fill.
The original Broadway production had an all-star cast featuring Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden. All four were nominated for 2009 Tony Awards, with Harden [...]
Spending an evening with the two couples at the heart of God of Carnage is a little like having drinks with George and Martha, the battling couple who set the gold standard for marital melt downs in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? We immediately sense that all is not well with the Raleighs [...]
It’s not unusual for people interested in pursuing a particular career path to take classes that will get them started on the road to fulfilling their dreams. But in the acting world, it’s rare that a single class can lead directly to performing for huge audiences. For several members of the cast of A Christmas [...]
A fascinating discussion happened at the Alliance Theatre last month between the Alliance’s resident playwright Pearl Cleage, Broadway legend Tovah Feldshuh (currently appearing in Golda’s Balcony), civil rights activist Elisabeth Omilami and Lois Frank, chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Here’s a video of what they discussed (and an excerpt of Golda’s Balcony). If [...]
As anyone who has ever done it knows all too well, raising a tween can be challenging. But being a tween can be equally difficult, if not more so. There are few directors in Atlanta better suited to tackling a production about the trials and tribulations of the middle-school crowd than Rosemary Newcott, the Alliance [...]
Actress Tovah Feldshuh has earned four Tony nominations and two Emmy nominations. She has won four Drama Desk Awards and four Outer Critics Circle Awards. She’s appeared on TV in “Citizen Cohn” and “Law & Order,” and in films such as Kissing Jessica Stein and A Walk on the Moon. But the role for which [...]
Encore Atlanta was lucky enough to run into Into the Wood’s Costume Designer Lex Liang at Tap right before one of the preview performances at the Alliance. In this short video he talks about his inspiration, the work that went into the costumes behind the scenes and his favorite part of the musical. A transcript [...]
To hear Janece Shaffer tell it, you might think the Atlanta playwright fell into her career entirely by happenstance. Her UGA degree was in public relations, not theatre. She worked at the Alliance Theatre as director of marketing, not as a performer or director. When she went to grad school at Georgia State, she pursued [...]
Atlanta Ballet’s John McFall is a visionary iconoclast who is known for his startlingly original works and daring collaborations. So it seems only fitting that the artists of Ignition: New Choreographic Voices incorporate live spoken word and music, video imagery and massive works of sculptural art into dances they’ve contributed to the program.
As diverse as [...]
