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If you’re in the Christmas spirit, we can recommend everything from Synchronicity Theatre’s “A Year With Frog and Toad” and the Alliance’s “A Christmas Carol” to a Very Merry Holiday Pops at the ASO. If not, try 7 Stages’ anti-holiday “Atlanta Xmas Apocalypse,” the Collective Project’s “The Theory of Everything” or Fabrefaction’s “Little Women.”
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving! If you have room for culture amid the turkey and stuffing, check out “The Summer of Daisy May” at the new Marietta Theatre (for laughs) or “Wolves” at Actor’s Express (for chill bumps). The holiday show season accelerates with “Aurora’s Christmas Canteen 2012,” the Alliance’s “A Christmas Carol,” “Nuncrackers” at OnStage Atlanta and “The Santaland Diaries” at Horizon.
Read MoreTen recommendations to tickle your fancy, from Yorkey and Kitt to Stephen Sondheim, from last runs to world premieres (at the Alliance, Collective Project, Synchronicity and Theatrical Outfit). Let’s see a show!
Read MoreTonight, don’t miss “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” with the Atlanta Symphony. This weekend is your first chance to see Alfred Uhry’s newly opened “Apples & Oranges” at the Alliance, and your last to see the much-praised “Time Stands Still” at the Horizon.
Read MoreIf I could see one show this weekend it would be “Time Stands Still” at Horizon Theatre Company. But there’s lots to choose from, including the openings of “Betrayal” at Aurora Theatre and “Macbeth” at Georgia Shakespeare, and your last chance to see “Kiss of the Spider Woman” at Actor’s Express and “What I Learned in Paris” at the Alliance.
Read More“Sweet Charity” opens this weekend at Aurora Theatre, puppet slammers from across the country are in town and “Time Between Us” continues its regional premiere run at Serenbe Playhouse. Plus! Much! More!
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“In the puppetry world, there just aren’t that many people who say, ‘You can’t do that.’ You get to create your own world,” says Jon Ludwig of the Center for Puppetry Arts.
Read MoreCome and get your Shakespeare! Under the stars at Serenbe, with a pint of ale at the New American Shakespeare Tavern and at the blissfully air-conditioned Georgia Shakespeare. Also up: Puppets, waffles and a musical.
Read MoreThe 2012-13 season at the Center for Puppetry Arts features almost 13 performances each week.
Read MoreIf you’re looking for something cultural to do this weekend, Encore Atlanta recommends the musicals “Ilyria” at Georgia Shakespeare and “Musicals Suck, The Musical” at Dad’s Garage along with a couple of special events: Synchronicity Theatre’s annual Playmaking for Girls summer performance and “What’s Eating Katie?” at the Alliance Theatre.
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