TONI STONE Feature: A Story That Must Be Told
Award-winning playwright Lydia R. Diamond recalls how she came to shed light on an icon of professional baseball If there’s one avenue that can link the often polar opposite worlds …
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Now Playing: TONI STONE at Alliance Theatre
Alliance Theatre is shining a light on an unheralded, groundbreaking figure in history. Lydia R. Diamond’s Toni Stone makes its Atlanta debut on the Coca-Cola Stage through February 27, 2022, …
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DREAM HOU$E Feature: In Conversation with Playwright Eliana Pipes
Playwright Eliana Pipes shares her journey of creating this year’s Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition winner It’s not every day one of your earliest plays from grad school gets a …
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The Alliance Theatre is continuing their annual tradition of premiering an Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition Award-winning new play this month. The 18th competition winner Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes will have its …
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Feature: A Christmas Career
Script adapter David H. Bell reflects on a career filled with the seasonal classic “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” -Ebenezer …
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TRADING PLACES Musical Gets World Premiere at Alliance Theatre
The Alliance Theatre has finally revealed the title of next summer’s much-anticipated but previously undisclosed world premiere musical, directed by Tony Award-winner and Atlanta theatre icon Kenny Leon. The Alliance …
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HANDS UP Feature: It’s About the Conversations After
Co-Directors Keith Arthur Bolden and Alexis K. Woodard on how Hands Up became a story of persistence, authenticity, and Black joy By Ashley Elliott and Sally Henry Fuller After almost …
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Quick Pics: HANDS UP at Alliance Theatre
In response to national conversations on racial justice and equality, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre is producing THE NEW PLAY FEST’S HANDS UP: SEVEN PLAYWRIGHTS, SEVEN TESTAMENTS as part of its Hertz Stage series this month. Though …
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DARLIN’ CORY Feature: A Musical of Its Time
Discovering the Unique Treasures of Writing Darlin’ Cory During COVID This article appears in Alliance Theatre’s Darlin’ Cory edition of Encore Atlanta. Pick up a copy when you attend the …
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Quick Pics: New Musical DARLIN’ CORY Premieres at Alliance Theatre
Audiences are back in Alliance Theatre for another musical premiere for the next two weeks. As Encore Atlanta previously reported, the world premiere of Phillip DePoy and Kristian Bush’s Americana …
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