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Christmas, anyone? Your best bets this week range from concerts to a ballet and include musicals, puppets, dramas, satires, one-person shows and something for families, kids, grown-ups and the biggest “bah, humbugs” in your bunch.
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Festive outings await. The bad news: “Knead” (Alliance) closes Sunday. The good news: “Christmas Canteen” (Aurora), “A Christmas Carol” (Alliance), Atlanta Ballet’s new “Nutcracker” and “Frog and Toad” (Synchronicity) open or continue; and the ASO plays its first holiday concert. Intriguing: Aurora’s one-man “This Wonderful Life.”
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The films announced include looks at the alt-right in the age of Trump; an Israeli dad who wants to live as a woman; a Jewish-Christian romance in Ethiopia; the birth of Blue Note Records; and a little-known chapter of WWII resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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“Christmas Canteen” (Aurora), “Miss Bennet” (Theatrical Outfit) and the one-actor “Knead” (Alliance) still top our list. Consider, too, “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” at the Fox Theatre + Aurora’s one-actor “This Wonderful Life,” a riff on the popular movie.
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Rosemary Newcott, directing her last “A Christmas Carol” as an Alliance Theatre staff member, reflects on her life in the theater. And she’s not done yet.
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Atlanta Ballet’s first fresh holiday show in 2 decades was 2 years in the making. Creators hint that it will be brimming with surprises, including video, projections and a more contemporary edge.
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The outlook turns tinselly with holiday shows filling the calendar. Our top picks: “Christmas Canteen” (Aurora Theatre); “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” (Theatrical Outfit); and especially “Knead” (at the Alliance through Dec. 9).
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For its 10th season, Serenbe Playhouse will stage the musicals “Shenandoah” and “Ragtime,” revive “Hair” and premiere a “Pocohontas” by a Native American playwright. The 2019 season begins in March.
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“Knead,” an Alliance Theatre world premiere, and Aurora Theatre’s festive “Christmas Canteen” run on; Steve Yockey’s “Reykjavik” (Actor’s Express) and “Dry Land” (Atlanta Theatre Club) close; and the ASO plays Tchaikovsky. Details on these and more in this week’s curated column.
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The “White Christmas” creative team goes low-tech to make certain that every performance is, indeed, merry, bright and white. The national tour drops into the Fox Theatre on Nov. 27.
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