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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Kenny Leon out, Jamil Jude in at True Colors in 2019/20
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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OUT ON FILM 2018
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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BEST BETS | Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2018
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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ADDICT. ALCOHOLIC. JAZZ GENIUS.
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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BEST BETS | Sept. 20-27, 2018
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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‘Color Purple,’ ‘Hunchback,’ ‘Daze’ top 2018 Suzi nominees
THE SUZI BASS AWARD NOMINATIONS are out for the best of Atlanta theater in 2017/18 and Aurora Theatre, Theatrical Outfit, Actor’s Express and the Alliance Theatre have much to celebrate. How many nominees did you see?
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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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A WHOLE NEW WORLD
“It’s about keeping all the stuff that everyone loves from the movie and, in order to get it onstage, give it a musical-comedy heart,” Broadway director Casey Nicholaw says of “Aladdin.” The stage version runs Sept. 12-23 at the Fox Theatre.
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BEST BETS | Sept. 13-19, 2018
“A Doll’s House, Part 2” (Actor’s Express), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Alliance Theatre) + “The Seagull” (Serenbe Playhouse) make up the three-headed beast atop this week’s curated column. Plus. Much. More.
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