Energy of the Stage
Our best of the best this week includes “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” at Aurora Theatre, “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play” at Synchronicity and “Stupid F*cking Bird” at Actor’s Express.” Go see a show!
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This weekend is rich with things to see and do. Our top pick: Synchronicity Theatre’s “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play,” a Pulitzer- and Tony-nominated sex comedy by Sarah Ruhl. It marks actor Daniel May’s (“The Walking Dead”) first time on an Atlanta stage in four years. Other don’t-misses: “Stupid F*cking Bird” at Actor’s Express, “A Steady Rain” at the Alliance and, of course, the ASO.
Read More“La bohème,” “The Pirates of Penzance” and “Romeo and Juliet” will play the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, plus …
Read MoreLooking for something cultural to do in the next week or so? Here’s our select list of recommendations.
Read MoreThe Atlanta Opera’s season officially begins Oct. 2 with La bohème, but in the weeks prior, the opera’s offering a couple of free events open to the public. Longtime opera …
Read MoreThe Atlanta Opera’s three-show 2010-2011 season at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre will kick off with Puccini’s La bohème on Oct. 2, 5, 8 and 10. Set in wintry …
Read MoreJonathan Larson based the book of the musical Rent on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. Larson changed the setting of the story from 1830s Paris to New York City’s Lower East Side in the 1990s, substituted AIDS for tuberculosis and introduced homosexual characters into Puccini’s love triangles, but many details from the opera remain intact…
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