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 Photo Flash: Elm Street Launches HELVETICA Digital Experienceby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (3/20/2020) - While Elm Street Cultural Arts Village had to cancel live performances of the Georgia Premiere of Will Coleman's Helvetica due to COVID-19 concerns, the Downtown Woodstock-based arts center has launched a complete digital experience of the play that audiences can enjoy from the comfort and safety of home for free between now and May 10th.  Photo Flash: THE BROTHERS SIZE at Actor's Expressby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (3/13/2020) - Actor's Express continues its 32nd season with The Brothers Size, the powerful play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Academy Award-winning writer of Moonlight. McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays, which includes The Brothers Size, In The Red and Brown Water and Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, produced by Actor's Express in 2015 to great critical and box office success.  Photo Flash: PERSONALS at Out of Box Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (3/12/2020) - Before we were Bumbling and Mingling and Swiping Right, there were Personals - ads for those looking for love. And before there was the television hit show Friends. The creators took a stab and making a musical that would later help them lay the groundwork for that show.  Photo Flash: First Look at Synchronicity Theatre's WAYFINDINGby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (3/6/2020) - Whitney Rowland's new play, Wayfinding, is a “magical realism melancholic comedy” that uses the concept of “time bending” to shape the characters' journeys to unexpected destinations. Jane (Sarah Wallis) is an emotionally-numbed new widow. Harrison (Ben Thorpe) is Les's (Charlie T. Thomas) inattentive, self-sabotaging fiancé. In seeking escape, these two strangers collide – both literally and figuratively – tangling their lifelines and setting them on a journey involving an intercontinental plane crash, a magical forest, and a choice that leads them both to an unexpected destination. Wayfinding runs through March 29, 2020 at Synchronicity Theatre.  Photo Flash: Capitol City Opera Company Presents Gounod's ROMEO ET JULIETTEby BWW News Desk - Opera (3/5/2020) - The love story that will last generations comes to life as Capitol City Opera Company (CCOC), a 501(c)3 non-profit professional opera company, opens its 37th season with their first full-staged French opera, Roméo et Juliette by composer Charles Gounod on Friday, March 6 at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, March 7 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m. at Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University. Tickets are $30 – $40 and are available online at ccityopera.org.  Photo Flash: Inside Rehearsal for NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED: THE ROCK EXPERIENCE at Alliance Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (2/28/2020) - Performances start next week for the Alliance Theatre's family production, NAKED MOLE RAT GETS DRESSED: THE ROCK EXPERIENCE, with book and lyrics by award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, the Elephant and Piggie series) and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma (Elephant and Piggie's: We Are In A Play, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus: The Musical). Get a peek inside the first day of rehearsal!  Photo Flash: Elm Street Cultural Arts Village Presents the Georgia Premiere of HELVETICAby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (2/24/2020) - Starting March 13th, Elm Street Cultural Arts Village presents the Georgia Premiere of Helvetica, a new work written by Will Coleman, in which children's book author Helvetica is introduced three different times in her life and how her experiences weave together to tell her story.  Photo Flash: LEADING LADIES Opens at Georgia Ensemble Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (2/17/2020) - Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), the professional North Fulton theatre company, will bring the funny, farcical Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig to their stage February 20th through March 8th at their home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. The production will be directed by GET Associate Artistic Director James Donadio and is sponsored by Renasant Bank.  Photo Flash: Synchronicity Theatre's THE HOBBITby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (2/1/2020) - Synchronicity Theatre opened a steam punk adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, The Hobbit, on January 31st. The production runs until February 23, 2020. For tickets or more information, please visit synchrotheatre.com or call 404-484-8636.  Photo Flash: First Look at MAYBE HAPPY ENDING at Alliance Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (1/27/2020) - Winner of six Korean Musical Awards and the Richard Rodgers Production Award, Maybe Happy Ending is having its English-language debut at Alliance Theatre Jan 21 - Feb 16.  Photo Flash: A First Look At August Wilson's FENCES At Springer Opera Houseby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (1/22/2020) - Get a first look at the Springer Opera House production of August Wilson's Fences, running from January 23 - February 2, 2020  Photo Flash: ELLA ENCHANTED at Synchronicity Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (12/13/2019) - Synchronicity Theatre will ring in the holiday season with the family musical adaptation of the popular young adult novel, Ella Enchanted. The production runs through January 5, 2020. More info at synchrotheatre.com.  Photo Flash: Elm Street's Production of A CHRISTMAS CAROLby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (11/26/2019) - Starting December 13th Elm Street Cultural Arts Village's holiday tradition returns to Downtown Woodstock with the opening night of A Christmas Carol, a joyous and touching musical version of the Charles Dickens classic. When visited by the ghost of former business partner Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge explores his past, present, and future and learns the true spirit of the season, with the help of three ghosts along the way.  Photo Flash: GET Brings Holiday Hilarity with A TUNA CHRISTMASby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (11/15/2019) - Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), the professional North Fulton theatre company, will return to the Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University this December to bring holiday laughs and cheer with the much-loved comedy A Tuna Christmas. The production will be directed by Atlanta favorite Topher Payne and runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays December 13th through 29th, 2019.  Photo Flash: Elm Street Cultural Arts Village Presents WILLY WONKA, JR.by BWW News Desk - Atlanta (11/5/2019) - Starting November 15th Elm Street Cultural Arts Village enters a world of pure imagination with opening night of Willy Wonka Jr., a sweet treat of a musical that is perfect for the entire family. Mysterious candy manufacturer Willy Wonka stages a contest by hiding golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. Whomever comes up with these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the five winning children are insufferable brats, but the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charlie Bucket. The children must learn to follow Wonka's rules in the factory — or suffer the consequences.  Photo Flash: Georgia Ensemble Theatre Presents NIGHT MUST FALLby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (10/21/2019) - Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), the professional North Fulton theatre company, continues its 27th season this October-November with Night Must Fall, a chilling experience just in time for the spooky season of the year. The production will be directed by Shannon Eubanks and run October 24th through November 10th, 2019, at the company's home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center.  Photo Flash: First Look at JEKYLL & HYDE At The Atlanta Lyric Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (10/19/2019) - Atlanta Lyric Theatre presents this fiendishly entertaining musical melodrama October 18- November 3, 2019. The musical adaptation features a thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy- and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn and double-Oscar- and Grammy-win- ning Leslie Bricusse. JEKYLL & HYDE performs at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre (548 South Marietta Pkwy., Marietta). For tickets, reservations and group pricing visit www.At- lantaLyric.com or call 404-377-9948.  Photo Flash: First Look at Theatrical Outfit's SAFETY NETby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (10/17/2019) - Theatrical Outfit continues its groundbreaking 2019 - 2020 Season with a world premiere - Safety Net by Daryl Lisa Fazio. This hard-hitting new drama was winner of the 2018 Alliance Theatre Reiser Lab. Safety Net runs October 16 - November 10, 2019 only at The Balzer Theater at Herren's in the heart of Downtown Atlanta.  Photo Flash: First Look at Synchronicity Theatre's MAC | BETHby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (10/5/2019) - Atlanta's Synchronicity Theatre opened its 22nd season with Erica Schmidt's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Mac | Beth.  Photo Flash: Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Pay A Visit To D.A.T.E.by BWW News Desk - Atlanta (9/26/2019) - On Wednesday September 25, local Atlanta school DeKalb Academy of Technology and the Environment, Inc., also known as D.A.T.E., got their Golden Ticket! Cast members from the Broadway tour of Roald Dahl's CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (currently playing the Fox Theatre until September 29 as the first show of the 2019-2020 Broadway in Atlanta season) participated in a special Q&A with a group of drama students, including those who performed in the school's own production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last spring.  Photo Flash: Aurora Theatre Presents THE ROOMMATEby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (9/23/2019) - The Roommate, a surprising and touching story of starting over, overcoming consequences and forming friendships is set to hit Aurora Theatre's mainstage from September 19 – October 20. The one-act dark comedy by Jen Silverman follows two mature women taking on a newly found chapter in their lives while coming to terms with transformation, themselves and each other.  Photo Flash: First Look At FRANKENSTEIN'S FUNERAL: An Immersive Halloween Experienceby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (9/17/2019) - This Halloween season, Found Stages' Frankenstein's Funeral will take audiences on a physical journey through Mary Shelley's 200-year-old novel. This immersive experience takes place Oct. 4_Nov. 3, 2019 at St. John's Lutheran Churcha?"a historic Atlanta home once known as Stonehenge Mansion, converted into a church in 1959.  Photo Flash: Actor's Express Opens Season with SKINTIGHTby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (9/11/2019) - Actor's Express opens its 32nd season with Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award winner Joshua Harmon's blistering new comedy Skintight running September 18 – October 13, 2019.  Photo Flash: First Look at CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF At GETby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (9/10/2019) - Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET), the professional North Fulton theatre company, will open its 27th season this September with a southern classic from Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The production will be directed by GET Associate Artistic Director James Donadio and run September 12th through 28th, 2019, at the company's home in the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. The Robert W. Hagan Family Foundation is graciously sponsoring this show.  Photo Flash: Meet The Stars of THE ROOMMATE At Aurora Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (9/4/2019) - The Roommate, a surprising and touching story of starting over, overcoming consequences and forming friendships is set to hit Aurora Theatre's mainstage from September 19 – October 20. The one-act dark comedy by Jen Silverman follows two mature women taking on a newly found chapter in their lives while coming to terms with transformation, themselves and each other.  Photo Flash: Aurora Theatre Kicks Off Season with CHILDREN OF EDENby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (7/22/2019) - Children of Eden, a hit musical about love, family and the power of forgiveness, is hitting Aurora Theatre's mainstage from July 18 – September 1! Telling the tale of the Book of Genesis in two acts, this family-friendly masterpiece with book by John Caird and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz covers the story of creation and the great flood – all while examining the complex love between parents and children. Audiences of all ages will appreciate the musical twist on these famous stories!  Photo Flash: CHILDREN OF EDEN At Aurora Theatreby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (7/22/2019) - Children of Eden, a hit musical about love, family and the power of forgiveness, is hitting Aurora Theatre's mainstage from July 18 – September 1! Telling the tale of the Book of Genesis in two acts, this family-friendly masterpiece with book by John Caird and music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz covers the story of creation and the great flood – all while examining the complex love between parents and children. Audiences of all ages will appreciate the musical twist on these famous stories!  Photo Flash: Actor's Express Presents HEAD OVER HEELSby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (7/19/2019) - Actor's Express presents Head Over Heels direct from Broadway! Based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, Head Over Heels features the music of the iconic 80s band The Go-Go's, and was conceived by Jeff Whitty and Adapted by James Magruder.  Photo Flash: Meet The Cast of HEAD OVER HEELS At Actor's Expressby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (7/2/2019) - Actor's Express presents Head Over Heels direct from Broadway! Based on The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, Head Over Heels features the music of the iconic 80s band The Go-Go's, and was conceived by Jeff Whitty and Adapted by James Magruder. Directed by Freddie Ashley, Head Over Heels premieres in Atlanta July 17-August 25, 2019.  Photo Flash: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED) At Elm Street Cultural Arts Villageby BWW News Desk - Atlanta (6/21/2019) - Wigs, Silly Hats, and More Make Up The Complete History of America (Abridged) at Elm Street Cultural Arts Village! |
