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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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Theatrical Outfit’s 2018/19 season features two plays by Decatur-born, San Francisco-based playwright Lauren Gunderson, a return to the days of champion boxer Jack Johnson, a sit-down with famed chef James Beard, the Unexpected Play Festival and a Joe Gransden Jazz Series.
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True Colors Theatre opens its 2018/19 season in September by celebrating R&B singer/activist Nina Simone and closes it in July 2019 with “East Texas Hot Links,” a drama by actor-playwright Eugene Lee, who’ll direct.
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The Alliance Theatre and the High Museum of Art will join forces once again this spring/summer to showcase the work of children’s book authors and artists. This year’s squeezable special guest: Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater arrives, Aurora’s “Maytag Virgin” departs and attention is paid to two of America’s greatest playwrights — Tony Kushner (“Angels: at Actor’s Express) and August Wilson (“King Hedley II” at True Colors Theatre).
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