Alliance's new season: 10 world premieres, 5 musicals, 5 shows by Atlanta artists
“New,” “local” and “race” are among the words that best describe the Alliance‘s 2016-17 season, one worthy of a major regional American theater.
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This weekend's best bets: March 20
Opening this weekend: Susan Shalhoub-Larkin and son Tony Larkin in “Miracle on South Division Street” at Stage Door Players and “Maple and Vine” at Actor’s Express. Last call for “Red Badge of Courage” (7 Stages). This weekend only: Atlanta Ballet’s “Modern Choreographic Voices.”
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: March 13
This weekend needs more than 2 days and 3 nights. There’s so much to see and so little time. Highly recommended: “The Tall Girls” (Alliance), “Race” (True Colors) and “The Great Gatsby” (Georgia Ensemble), plus a whole lot more.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: March 6
Topping our list this weekend: “Great Gatsby” at GET, True Colors’ “Race,” Audra McDonald with the ASO, Atlanta Opera’s “Faust” and your last chance to see Synchronicity’s “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.” If you make Sunday plans, don’t forget we spring forward this weekend and lose an hour of sleep to gain an hour of sunlight.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Feb. 27
Say hello to “The Great Gatsby” at GET, “Race” at True Colors and “Red Badge of Courage” at 7 Stages. Say goodbye to “Shakespeare’s R&J” at Fabrefaction, closing Sunday. Mix in the symphony and the opera, and have yourself a blast.
Read MoreNotions of race cross-examined in True Colors' next staging
Race is a suspense story from playwright David Mamet that the Chicago Tribune called “intellectually salacious.” The story: Two high-profile lawyers — one black, one white — are called to defend …
Read MoreTrue Colors teams Leon-Rashad next season
Phylicia Rashad and Kenny Leon will go toe-to-toe in “Same Time, Next Year” to wrap the three-show 2013-14 season at True Colors Theatre Company. Former Atlantan Chris Coleman will direct.
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