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This week’s top picks include Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, “Nell Gwynn” at Synchronicity, “Waiting for Godot” at 7 Stages, “The Royale” opening at Theatrical Outfit, the return of the Center for Puppetry Arts’ “Ghastly Dreadfuls,” “Nick’s Flamingo Grill” at the Alliance and the Atlanta Symphony.
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Tony Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber wants audiences to have a “really good time” at his most recent show. He calls “The School of Rock” an unabashed musical comedy.
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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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New and/or recommended: “Merrily We Roll Along” in concert (Actor’s Express); “Nell Gwynn” (Synchronicity); “Nina Simone: Four Women” (True Colors); “Fall-en” (Terminus Modern Dance Theatre); “Nick’s Flamingo Grill” (Alliance). Have fun!
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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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In the 2019/20 season, Kenny Leon adds “emeritus” to his True Colors Theatre title, and associate artist director Jamil Jude becomes only the second artistic leader in the company’s 16-year history.
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Atlanta’s annual film fest screens 128 features, biopics, documentaries and shorts at one of three locations. New this year: A staged reading of the play “The Laramie Project,” about the gay-bashing death of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.
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The door closes on “A Doll’s House, Part 2” (Actor’s Express) this week, while The Atlanta Opera’s “YARDBIRD,” Synchronicity’s “Nell Gwynn,” True Colors’ “Nina Simone: Four Women” and the Out on Film festival arrive.
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Atlanta Opera’s YARDBIRD tells Charlie Parker’s life-and-death tale as a ghost story wrapped in America’s music, opioid crisis and racial inequities.
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Playwright Carla Ching double-dips with plays on two Atlanta stages; Stephen Sondheim’s on his way to Actor’s Express; the Nora show continues in AE’s “Doll’s House”; the ASO returns; and Aurora opens the intriguing “Be Here Now.”
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