TEACHABLE MOMENTS
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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A MAD, MAD, MAD ‘MIDSUMMER’
“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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FOR THE LOVE OF POOH
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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THEATER. OPERA. CONCERT.
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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5 WORLD PREMIERES. 50 BIRTHDAYS. 1 NEW HOME.
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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Fox’s Marquee Club opens May 17
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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AT THE ALLIANCE, TWO FOR ONE
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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WHEN THE POLITICAL GETS PERSONAL
“Sheltered,” an Alliance Theatre world premiere, looks at what can happen when the political gets personal. This fact-based drama, the 2018 winner of the competitive Alliance/Kendeda contest, unfolds as WWII threatens Europe and an American couple schemes to rescue Jewish children.
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BEARLY FAMOUS
“The Jungle Book’s” Markelle Gay, who’s been acting professionally since age 10, isn’t a marquee name yet. But you’ll be hearing from him. He plays Baloo the bear in the Alliance Theatre’s family story about a boy raised in the wild.
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ATTENTION MUST BE PAID
Alliance Theatre remount of “Native Guard” takes its place alongside Atlanta History Center’s Civil War memories, a reminder that attention must be paid.
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