Energy of the Stage
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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It’s a big weekend for openings: “Every Tongue Confess” at Horizon Theatre, the Essential Theatre Play Festival and True Colors’ “Shakin’ the Rafters.” What are your picks? (And don’t forget the “Lesbians” at Weird Sisters, and the gods and mortals of “Metamorphoses” at Georgia Shakespeare.)
Read MoreOpening this week are the fast-paced comedy “Bob” (Aurora Theatre) and David Lindsay-Abaire’s much-praised “Good People” (Alliance). Closing: “Waiting for Balloon” at the Alliance’s Theatre for the Very Young. Worth checking out: 7 Stages’ new Home Brew Series of new-play readings; “Swell Party,” which is swell, if long, at Georgia Ensemble; and “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which is still stirring buzz as it hits week two in its six-week run at Actor’s Express.
Read MoreAtlanta’s Alliance Theatre is hosting three free events in connection with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 21: a poetry slam, a photography exhibit and a play reading …
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 MoreRiches abound: The comic “Tigers Be Still” at Aurora Theatre, gloATL in the Maddox Park pool, “Time Stands Still” at Horizon Theatre, Crystal Fox’s star turn in “What I Learned in Paris” at Allliance … please read on.
Read MoreOpening this weekend: “Tigers Be Still” at Aurora Theatre, “Time Stands Still” at Horizon Theatre and “What I Learned in Paris” at the Alliance. It’s also your last chance for “My Name Is Asher Lev” at Theatrical Outfit.
Read MoreLooking for something cultural to do this weekend and beyond? Here are Encore Atlanta’s recommendations. Hint: “My Name Is Asher Lev” at Theatrical Outfit is getting raves from critics and audience members.
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“What I Learned in Paris,” a world premiere, runs Sept. 5-Oct. 6 at the Alliance Theatre. Atlanta, 1973. Fall. The O’Jays, Paul Simon and Earth, Wind and Fire are on …
Read MoreThe Alliance Theatre will stage four world premieres in its 2012-13, including new work from playwrights Pearl Cleage and Alfred Uhry, and the Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal. The …
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