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Stage Door Players’ 45th season leans toward the comedic, with “A Red Plaid Shirt,” “A Nice Family Christmas,” “Last Night of Ballyhoo,” “Secrets of a Soccer Mom,” “Dames at Sea” + “Laughter on the 23rd Floor.”
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Welcome once again to BEST BETS, our curated column about the top arts events in Atlanta. Leading this week’s best: “The Color Purple” (Actor’s Express); Lauren Gunderson’s “The Taming” (closing Sunday at Synchronicity Theatre); AJFF’s Cinebash salute to Saul Bass; and the offbeat “Paper Cut” (for adult audiences at the Center for Puppetry Arts).
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The Rialto Center for the Arts opens its 2018/19 season in early October and ends it in April 2019. Among its 15 acts: Ballet Hispánico, jazz trumpter Etienne Charles, Afropop’s Youssou N’Dour, sitar artist Anoushka Shankar and banjo master Béla Fleck.
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Seven years after recalibrating Broadway’s funny bone, “The Book of Mormon” maintains its popularity and edge, and proves it has serious staying power. See it July 17-22 at the Fox Theatre.
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Topping this week’s curated Best Bets column: “The Color Purple” (opening at Actor’s Express), “Sweeney Todd” (heading into its final weekend at The Atlanta Opera) and “The Taming” (still championing America and satire at Synchronicity Theatre). Plus. Much. More.
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If you didn’t score tickets for Hamilton’s first visit to the Fox Theatre, take heart. You’ll have another chance to be in the room where it happens.
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The Stoneman Douglas drama kids, Robert De Niro, “The Band’s Visit” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” steal the chatter and cheers at the 2018 Tony awards.
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This weekend’s Atlanta Fringe Festival, Theatrical Outfit’s “110 in the Shade,” Synchronicity’s “The Taming,” “Hamilton’s” last hurrah and the final concert of the Atlanta Symphony’s 2017/18 classical season top this week’s curated BEST BETS column.
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Actor’s Express will present a 3-night concert staging of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” an epic failure in its day that musical theater lovers just won’t let fade away. Great score. Hot ticket. See it Oct. 5-7.
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AJFF’s Cinebash celebrates filmmaker Saul Bass, the graphic designer and Oscar winner known for his movie titles (Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and “Psycho”), posters (“Exodus,” “The Shining,” “West Side Story”) + corporate logos.
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