Alliance's 'Edward Foote,' 'Tuck' top 2015 Suzis
Twenty-two professional metro theater companies are eligible for the awards; seven went home with at least one honor.
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Alliance, 'Memphis' co-pro top 2015 Suzi nods
The awards, Atlanta professional theater’s more-or-less equivalent to Broadway’s Tonys, will be handed out Nov. 2.
Read MoreTHIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: April 16
Our top theater picks: “Edward Foote” at the Alliance, “Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet” at Actor’s Express and “Storefront Church” at Theatrical Outfit. The ASO digs into soul and Atlanta Ballet goes modern.
Read MoreTHIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: April 9
This week we’re high on “Edward Foote” at the Alliance, “Marisol” at Theater Emory, “Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet” at Actor’s Express and “Storefront Church” at Theatrical Outfit. Also playing: the ASO and The Atlanta Opera.
Read MoreTHIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: April 2
Our top pick again this week is “Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet” by Tarell Alvin McCraney, onstage at Actor’s Express through April 26. Also of note: a world premiere at Fern Theatre by Atlanta playwright Theroun D’Arcy Patterson and Theater Emory’s “Marisol,” featuring a mix of students and Atlanta pros (Danielle Deadwyler, Veronika Duerr, Brandon Connor Partrick), directed by David Crowe.
Read MoreTHIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: March 26
Our top pick: “Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet” by the prodigiously talented Tarell Alvin McCraney, opening at Actor’s Express. Also new this weekend: “The Explorer’s Club” at Aurora, “Grand Concourse” at Horizon and Serenbe’s “Man of La Mancha.”
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SNAKES ALIVE!
For Atlanta playwright DePoy, the arrival of “Edward Foote” on the Alliance Theatre stage marks the end of a journey that took root in 1969 — during a student research trip where he witnessed a Pentecostal service with snake handling, people talking in tongues and screaming.
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World premieres top Alliance '14-15 lineup
The Alliance Theatre’s 2014-15 season will include seven world premieres, including two musicals, and new plays from Atlanta playwrights Pearl Cleage and Phillip DePoy, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway.
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