This weekend's best bets: Jan. 16
Looking for something cultural to do this weekend and beyond? Here’s our select list of top picks.
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This weekend's best bets: Jan. 9
It’s a big weekend for openings, with the world premiere of “The Only Light in Reno” at Georgia Ensemble Theatre and “Six Degrees of Separation” at Actor’s Express. Right around the corner: the world premiere of “The Geller Girls” at the Alliance Theatre and “Lombardi” at Aurora Theatre.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Jan. 2
Looking for something cultural to do this weekend and beyond? Our select list of recommendations includes this Saturday’s free Talent Development Program Alumni Legacy Concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Dec. 24
With this week’s column, we say thank you and goodbye to Chris Kayser, for his 16 years as the Alliance Theatre’s Ebenezer Scrooge. If you’d like a non-holiday outing, try Synchronicity’s family-friendly “Peter Pan & Wendy.” Mark your January calendars for “The Only Light in Reno” at Georgia Ensemble Theatre and the TDP Legacy Concert, spotlighting talented instrumentalists developed through a forward-looking ASO initiative. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Dec. 19
Our select list of recommendations should satisfy everybody on your list — the Christmas crowd, the anti-Christmas crowd, those who are neutral and those looking ahead to January’s slate of theater, dance and music.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: March 14
If we could see any show this weekend, it’d be “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a quintessentially great musical comedy, at Aurora Theatre. Also: It’s your last chance for “Angry Fags,” a world premiere at 7 Stages, and your only weekend to catch the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and Capital City Opera’s timely, topical “Secret Agent.”
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: March 7
Our advice: Get tickets now for 7 Stages “Angry Fags” and the Alliance’s “Whipping Man.” Catch “Fly” at Theatrical Outfit and “Two Trains Running” by the brilliant August Wilson at True Colors before they close on Sunday.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Feb. 28
Our don’t-miss events this weekend include “Master Harold” at Aurora, “The Odd Couple” at Fabrefaction and “Romeo and Juliet” at the Shakespeare Tavern — see them before they close. Atlanta Opera opens “La traviata,” and you have just once chance to take FAMILIES Centerstage at the Woodruff as well as Bach’s “Mass,” and Steve Martin with the ASO.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Feb. 14
Looking for romance, culture or both? We enthusiastically endorse Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, “Bike America” at the Alliance, “Master Harold … and the boys” at Aurora Theatre and August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” by True Colors Theatre Company.
Read MoreThis weekend's best bets: Jan. 3
Looking for something cultural to do in the next week or so? Our select list of our recommendations “Waiting for Balloon” — for ages 18 months to 5 years — at the Alliance Theatre and the upcoming “Swell Party” at Georgia Ensemble Theatre, “Harabel” at Theatrical Outfit and “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” at Actor’s Express.
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