Alliance Presents SMART COOKIE 1/30 - 2/22

Smart Cookie, by Julia Brownell and directed by Jeremy B. Cohen will be performed at the ALLIANCE THEATRE from January 30 - February 22, 2009.

The show contains Teenage Sexuality, Thematic Elements (Abortion), and Adult Language (parents:  call the box office for specific details).

Meet Cookie. In between crafting her impeccable social image, you might catch her at the spa, avoiding carbs at New York’s best restaurants, or giving her husband’s money to the MET. As you can imagine, she’s very busy – until one day a visit from her prep school son and his foreign exchange girlfriend changes everything. This year’s Kendeda winner is a sly, wicked comedy about the power of surprise to help us become the people we never realized we wanted to be.

If you loved the film Juno, here is another unexpected tale of teenagers and pregnancy.  The comedy is so funny it had Alliance staff and board members giggling through the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and season planning.  By creating the opportunity to showcase the best in the class of graduate playwriting students each year, the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition is an important way for our Alliance to introduce important young national voices to our community. Ms. Brownell, whose writing is distinguished by craft and witty dialogue deployed in service of a wicked sense of humor, is the first comedic writer to win the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition.

The box office is open Monday - Friday from 10 am to 8 pm and Saturday - Sunday 12 pm to 8 pm. For more information call the box office at: 404.733.5000.

Now in its 40th season, Atlanta’s nationally acclaimed ALLIANCE THEATRE, recipient of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award®, is the leading professional resident theatre of the Southeast, creating the powerful experience of shared theatre for diverse people on two stages for youth and adult audiences.  Under the leadership of Artistic Director Susan V. Booth and Managing Director Thomas Pechar, the ALLIANCE THEATRE is a national theatre with a local address, reaching out annually to almost 200,000 patrons and members of the community.  Known for its high artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, the Alliance launched three Tony Award-winning hits to Broadway:  Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo.  And, in a rare event for a regional theatre, it originated the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  The theatre has premiered more than 50 works including adaptations of Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky.  Further evidence of the Alliance’s commitment to new work is found in its nationally recognized Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, a cutting-edge program introducing student playwrights to professional networks while producing the world premiere of the winning student’s work.  The ALLIANCE THEATRE also offers extensive education and outreach programs such as the Institute for Educators and the Collision Project for high school students.  The Alliance continuously brings Atlanta the finest talent and finest art—proving once again that the Alliance is where great theatre lives.

The ALLIANCE THEATRE is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, which also includes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse.

For more information visit: www.alliancetheatre.org.

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