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For playwright Meg Miroshnik, “The Tall Girls” begins with a photograph. The drama at the Alliance Theatre looks at women’s basketball in 1930s Kansas, and requires actors to shoot and score before the play can proceed.
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For playwright Meg Miroshnik, “The Tall Girls” begins with a photograph. The drama at the Alliance Theatre looks at women’s basketball in 1930s Kansas, and requires actors to shoot and score before the play can proceed.
Read MoreMolly Smith Metzler’s “Elemeno Pea,” set in Martha’s Vineyard, and Lisa D’Amour’s Pulitzer Prize finalist “Detroit” join the Inman Park theater company’s 2014 season.
Read MoreThe New York Times calls Shakespeare’s R&J, an 1998 off-Broadway hit by playwright Joe Calarco, a “hot-blooded adaptation.” It tells the story of four young prep school students who …
Read MoreThe New York Times calls Shakespeare’s R&J, an 1998 off-Broadway hit by playwright Joe Calarco, a “hot-blooded adaptation.” It tells the story of four young prep school students who …
Read MoreOur most intriguing best bets this weekend: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Fox, “Shakespeare’s R&J” at Fabrefaction, “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” at Synchronicity Theatre, the new “Whistling Psyche” and a double bill of heartbreak by Atlanta playwright Theroun D’arcy Patterson.
Read More“Whistling Psyche” envisions a meeting between Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, and pioneering surgeon James Barry, who lived his life as a man but, upon his death, was discovered to have been a woman. The production coincides with the launch of Arís Theatre, a Celtic-Irish-Scottish theater company that hopes to pick up where the one-time Atlanta company Theatre Gael left off.
Read MoreAtlanta Opera’s 2014-15 season opens with a “Choral Silver Celebration” marked Chorus Master Walter Huff’s anniversary, and includes “Madama Butterfly,” “Rigoletto,” “The Marriage of Figaro” and “Three Decembers.”
Read More7 Stages sinks its teeth into Valentine’s Day with a concert version of its popular Dracula: The Rock Opera, created by Rob Thompson, founder of the Little Five Points …
Read MoreIf I could see one thing this weekend … it’d be a tough call. Topping the list: “The Geller Girls” and “In Love and Warcraft,” both at the Alliance, and “Six Degrees of Separation” at Actor’s Express. If you’re looking for something achingly romantic, choose from any number of “Romeo and Juliets” (ballet, stage, modern).
Read MoreThis year’s Atlanta Francophonie Festival — March 14-20 — hooks up with Théâtre du Rêve’s Nearly New Festival to feature nine play readings with themes as varied and current as bullying and our obsession with Facebook.
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