Weird Sisters to stage Martin, Ruhl plays
The newish company, dedicated to creating theater by women, for everyone, will stage plays by Jane Martin and Sarah Ruhl in June and July.
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Want guac with that drumstick?
Imagine clarinets made from carrots. Or an entire meal made for you while the culinary artist sings, drums and otherwise percusses. That’s what the Atlanta music-maker Klimchak has planned for you.
Read MoreAtlanta playwright Payne wins national award
Atlanta’s Topher Payne has won the 2014 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award from the American Theatre Critics Association, which recognizes an emerging national playwright.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: March 13
This weekend needs more than 2 days and 3 nights. There’s so much to see and so little time. Highly recommended: “The Tall Girls” (Alliance), “Race” (True Colors) and “The Great Gatsby” (Georgia Ensemble), plus a whole lot more.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: March 6
Topping our list this weekend: “Great Gatsby” at GET, True Colors’ “Race,” Audra McDonald with the ASO, Atlanta Opera’s “Faust” and your last chance to see Synchronicity’s “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.” If you make Sunday plans, don’t forget we spring forward this weekend and lose an hour of sleep to gain an hour of sunlight.
Read More'Cowgirls,' 'Right On' join Horizon season
The final two pieces to Horizon Theatre’s 30th anniversary season are the Beethoven-meets-bluegrass musical “Cowgirls” and the world premiere of “Right On” by Darren Canady.
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World premieres top Alliance '14-15 lineup
The Alliance Theatre’s 2014-15 season will include seven world premieres, including two musicals, and new plays from Atlanta playwrights Pearl Cleage and Phillip DePoy, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway.
Read MoreTONIGHT: Hang out live with 7 Stages' 'Red Badge' creators
“Red Badge of Courage,” a stage version of Stephen Crane’s epic Civil War novel, opens tonight at 7 Stages. Encore Atlanta invites you to go backstage live … tonight … via Google Hangout … before the curtain.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Feb. 27
Say hello to “The Great Gatsby” at GET, “Race” at True Colors and “Red Badge of Courage” at 7 Stages. Say goodbye to “Shakespeare’s R&J” at Fabrefaction, closing Sunday. Mix in the symphony and the opera, and have yourself a blast.
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FALLING SLOWLY
When the indie film “Once” made it to the United States in 2007, you’d have been hard-pressed to imagine it as the stuff of Broadway musicals. But it did become a stage musical, one that won eight Tony awards.
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