This 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.

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This 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.”

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This 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.

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This 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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