Energy of the Stage
“Knead,” says playwright-actor Mary Lynn Owen, has gone through a “gazillion trillion” rewrites. “At one time it was a cooking show gone wrong. Finding the immediacy of the play has been a firsthand education in ‘why plays are plays.’ You’d think I’d have picked this up by now!”
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“The Prom,” the new American musical born in 2016 at the Alliance Theatre, opened on Broadway to positive reviews from The New York Times, Deadline Hollywood, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter and the Wall Street Journal.
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With the world premiere musical “Nick’s Flamingo Grill,” actor-composer-playwright Phillip DePoy returns to the Alliance Theatre for the first time since 2015’s award-winning “Edward Foote.”
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Performance artist Paige Hernandez found her voice through hip-hop. In her one-woman show — “Paige in Full,” at the Alliance Theatre, she wants to inspire young people to chase their own passions.
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“Our task as theater makers is to give the audience just enough so they can paint the rest of it with their imaginations.” With that, director David Catlin invites you to the Alliance Theatre’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” performed outdoors at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
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The Alliance Theatre opens its 50th season with a family musical based on A.A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh” books and featuring the chubby little bear who has gentle lessons for us all. The High Museum runs a Pooh exhibit at the same time.
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Alliance Theatre Artistic Director Susan V. Booth talks about “Candide,” a historic collaboration with the ASO’s Robert Spano, puppets and the best of all possible worlds.
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The Alliance Theatre christens its new mainstage in 2018/19 with five world premieres, two regional premieres, new work from Atlanta artists Pearl Cleage, Phillip DePoy and Mary Lynn Owen, and a piece by Faith Salie of NPR and “CBS News Sunday Morning.”
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The Fox Theatre’s Marquee Club, the 10,000-ft. expansion featuring a rooftop terrace and generous event space, will officially open May 17 with a ribbon-cutting for inaugural members.
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In Pearl Cleage’s “Hospice + Pointing at the Moon” — at the Alliance Theatre via the Southwest Arts Center — A-list actors Terry Burrell and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden play the same woman at 2 stages of her life.
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