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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge is back in the Alliance’s annual holiday gift to Atlanta — now celebrating its 20th year. Celebrate the power of the holidays to awaken the soul in our Broadway-scale …
Read MoreThe Second City: Peach Drop, Stop and Roll
All new and back by popular demand — the invigorating comic genius of Chicago’s Second City is here to skewer Atlanta’s favorite sacred cows and pink pigs. Just in time …
Read MoreA Life in the Theatre
The Alliance is thrilled to have Broadway legend André De Shields (The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and The Full Monty) headline in David Mamet’s (Glengarry Glen Ross, Wag the Dog, American …
Read MoreCome Fly With Me
Celebrating love and life, Come Fly With Me is a new musical that follows four couples falling in and out of love. Set in a crowded nightclub, the dance-driven evening …
Read MoreMusical auditions for 'Avenue X' at Alliance July 9
The Alliance Theatre is holding an open call for its upcoming production of Avenue X, which takes place in 1960s Brooklyn and requires excellent a cappella singers to perform the …
Read MoreCommunity events at The Alliance
Last month, I went to The Alliance Theatre to interview Artistic Director Susan Booth about what it was like to see The Color Purple return to Atlanta.
Read MoreThe Color Purple comes home
Susan Booth, the Alliance Theatre’s artistic director, traveled to New York in 2005 for the Broadway premiere of The Color Purple. “I had this great experience,” Booth says. “This woman – who will go nameless – was there from Atlanta. In the lobby, she caught up with me and said, ‘We have to bring this to Atlanta.’
Read MoreNew director of communications at Theatrical Outfit
Ruthie Ervin is Theatrical Outfit’s new director of communications. She last worked with the theater’s Artistic Director Tom Key in the 1980s, when Ervin was publicity manager for the Alliance …
Read MoreThe Color Purple coming to Atlanta
The Color Purple is coming home to Atlanta July 15-Aug. 3, 2008, kicking off its national tour. Originally developed by the Alliance Theatre, the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel opened on Broadway on Dec. 1, 2006, and still enjoys a successful run…
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