Energy of the Stage
If you don’t like holiday-themed theater and music, well, January is only about 34 days away. For now, feast on “A Christmas Carol” at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Ballet’s “Nutcracker” and many delights from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Read MoreOne more weekend: This is your last chance to see the world premiere of Steve Yockey’s “Pluto” at Actor’s Express. You’ll thank us. It’s also beginning to look a lot like Christmas show season around here.
Read MoreThe world premiere of “Pluto” at Actor’s Express is clearly among the best shows thus far this season. I wouldn’t miss it, and only two weeks remain. Worth checking out: Fern Theatre’s all-female “Macbeth”; “Phone Whore,” brought to you by the Atlanta Fringe Festival; and the final performance of Out of Hand’s “Salome.” And don’t look now, but here come the Christmas shows.
Read MoreAurora Theatre, with its blockbuster staging of “Les Miserables,” topped Atlanta’s 2013 professional theater awards with 7 Suzis on Monday night.
Read MoreWelcome to a weekend of firsts and one-of-a-kinds. The world premiere of “Pluto” at Actor’s Express. The debut of a monthly pop-up nightlife venue at the Woodruff Arts Center. The ASO’s inaugural “First Fridays” happy-hour concert. Plus Theatrical Outfit’s stunning “Harabel: A Sparrow Over a Minefield” and Out of Hand’s one-woman “Salome,” performed for audiences of 20 to 30, in private homes. Get a ticket! See a show! Have fun!
Read MoreIf we could see any one thing this weekend, it’d be “Harabel” at Theatrical Outfit or “Hamlet” at Georgia Shakespeare. Runners-up: “Vera Stark” and “Warrior Class” at the Alliance. Then we’d lick our chops in anticipation of Steve Yockey’s “Pluto,” beginning previews Oct. 30 at Actor’s Express.
Read MoreNo openings, but lots of see-them-while-you-can opportunities: “Milvotchkee, Visconsin” at Synchronicity, “Sleepy Hollow Experience” at Serenbe and Horizon’s “Third Country” among them.
Read More
Midtown’s Alliance Theatre and Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, both big producers of musicals, lead the Suzi Bass Award nominations for the 2012 season. In all, 17 metro companies were nominated for Atlanta’s top theater honors.
Read MoreSerenbe’s “Hair” gets a new Berger and La Marquise du Châtelet continues to fight convention in a Weird Sisters’ staging. Also this weekend: The return of “Living Walls” street art and the Piedmont Park Arts Festival.
Read More
What to see? Choose one, or all three, of Essential Theatre’s world premieres in their final performances; an epic, American and/or French, respectively, at Serenbe Playhouse and/or Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville; jazz in the great outdoors at Callanwolde; or a sexy foray into love, philosophy and science with Weird Sisters Theatre Project’s Georgia premiere of “Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight.”
Read More