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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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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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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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Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, a brand-new facility with two stages, opens its inaugural season in August with a 12-day celebration featuring 8 events. It will light up with theater, dance, classical music, jazz, comedy, speakers and screenings more than 70 times in its first 15 months.
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The Atlanta Fringe Festival returns June 6-10, with dancers, comedians, storytellers, puppeteers, actors and the offbeat putting up live shows across five venues in and around Little Five Points. Plus parties. Plus free Fringe Audio.
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HAMILTON is still here (lottery ticket details below), Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre opens a world premiere and both top this week’s curated BEST BETS column. See, too, what’s happening at Horizon Theatre, the Make Mom Proud Project + the Shakespeare Tavern. Next week: 2 openings + the ASO returns.
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Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s 26th season is bookended by the musicals “9 to 5” and “Bullets Over Broadway” and includes Alfred Uhry’s celebrated comedy-drama “Driving Miss Daisy.”
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The Weird Sisters Theatre Project turns 8 this summer and plans two productions (“Enchanted April,” “The Electric Baby”), plus a reading series of new works, short works and works by Atlanta playwrights.
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