Weekend's best bets: Oct. 16
Looking for something cultural to do this weekend and beyond? Our recommendations include “How I Learned What I Learned” at True Colors Theatre Company.
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A new 'Phantom' for a new time
Although this updated staging has new costumes, sets and technical wizardry, it’s less about design elements than sensibility.
Read MoreWeekend's best bets: Oct. 9
So much good stuff awaits that you could go to the theater for the next 10 days and still not see everything worthwhile. At the top of our list: “Clybourne Park” at Aurora, “Lasso of Truth” at Synchronicity and “How I Learned What I Learned” at True Colors. Coming soon: “Murder Ballad” at Actor’s Express and Atlanta Opera’s season-opening “Madama Butterfly.”
Read MoreWeekend's best bets: Oct. 2
Take your pick, or two, or three. You can’t go wrong with “Detroit” at Horizon Theatre, “Driving Miss Daisy” or “Clybourne Park” at Aurora, “Lasso of Truth” at Synchronicity, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at Actor’s Express, “Native Guard” at the Alliance or Out of Hand’s “White Rabbit Red Rabbit,” wherever you find it. Happy play-going!
Read MoreWeekend's best bets: Sept. 18
Our top two picks this weekend: A fine “Driving Miss Daisy” at Aurora Theatre and “Detroit,” a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist, opening at Horizon Theatre. Let’s all see a show!
Read MoreWeekend's best bets: Sept. 4
The fall theater season picks up momentum this week with the opening of “Bull Durham” at the Alliance and “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at Actor’s Express. Plus, this is your last chance to see “The Savannah Disputation,” directed by Tess Malis Kincaid, at Theatrical Outfit.
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Happy (and you know it)
Sweden has a 40-year history of sunny pop music so infectiously happy, it would give Pharrell Williams a sugar high. And it all started with ABBA.
Read MoreWeekend's best bets: Aug. 28
Looking for something cultural to do this weekend and beyond? Our recommendations include “Mary Poppins,” in its final weekend, at Aurora Theatre, and the theater and dance components of the Decatur Book Fest. Read on for even more.
Read MoreTickets for new 'Phantom' on sale now
The redesigned and restaged new version of “The Phantom of the Opera” hits the Fox Theatre in October. Tickets are available now.
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Play Ball!
The score for “Bull Durham,” a new musical getting its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre, “lives at the intersection of sports and sex,” says composer Susan Werner.
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