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The Emperor Jones launched the careers of playwright Eugene O'Neill and Actor Charles Gilpin. Gilpin was among the first Black Americans to lead a Broadway drama, but his tangling with O'Neill over the N word and his changing of lines in the show led to his downfall. As...
By Eboni Booth.
By Christopher Durang.
By Alisa Tangredi.
At a large, tastefully-appointed Sneden’s Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though it’s only a flesh wound, Charlie Brock’s self-inflicted injury sets off a series of events causing four couples to experience a severe attack of farce. As...
A Play About the Missing Years of The Winter’s Tale by local Atlanta Playwright Mel Konner A babe is reluctantly abandoned in a forest by Antigonus, who is attacked by a bear but survives. The babe, named Trouvita, and the injured nobleman are rescued by a shepherd family. She...
Gainesville Theatre Alliance presents The Heart of Robin Hood by David Farr, November 6-14 at UNG-Gainesville's Ed Cabell Theatre, inside the UNG-Gainesville Performing Arts Building. When Robin’s actions put his band at risk, Marian takes charge, challenging him to become the...
By Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Four of Shakespeare’s heroines - Cordelia, Desdemona, Lavinia, and Ophelia - speak from beyond death to reclaim the voices they were denied in life. Confronting the violence, silencing, and objectification imposed on them by patriarchal systems, they expose how their suffering...
Bobby lives with his maternal grandmother, Martha, in Waylon, Texas, where not much goes on, and work is hard to come by. Even after he’d grown and moved away, Bobby would return to Martha after each financial failure and drunken stupor. But it was always a tough living...
Experience a beloved holiday classic in a whole new way with It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play . Based on Frank Capra’s iconic 1946 film, this inventive stage adaptation retells the timeless story of George Bailey, a man who takes a life-changing look back at his past on...
BY JON ROBIN BAITZ DIRECTED BY: KEVIN DEW Other Desert Cities is a gripping and intelligent family drama set during a holiday gathering in Palm Springs. When Brooke Wyeth returns home to celebrate Christmas with her well-connected, conservative family, she arrives with a memoir...
Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents and bearing a manuscript which reveals a devastating
Tickets: https://tickets.conyersarts.org/LastGift CRCA is pleased to be the World Premiere location for the new play, The Last Gift . This is a wonderful story that takes place in a nursing home, and about the magic that a young child brings to a crotchety old man. It is written...
AT ALL COST National Tour announces cast and upcoming Tour dates! The national tour of At All Cost , written by Jamaican-American playwright Rashida Costa, is set to bring its moving and timely story to audiences across the country. The stage drama follows a Black World War II...
Directed by O'Neil Delapenha, this production follows the noble Othello, whose love for Desdemona becomes tainted by the malevolent schemes of the envious and manipulative Iago. As lies unravel and suspicion corrupts, Othello's once steadfast confidence breaks, leading to a...
Love isn’t always neat—and it’s rarely predictable. From the playwright of Almost, Maine comes Love/Sick , a collection of nine unconventional and bittersweet short plays that explore the highs and lows of modern relationships. Set in a slightly off-center world, each vignette...
By Johnna Wright, Patty Jamieson, Patrick Hamilton.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY BY JOE LANDRY DIRECTED BY: MARLA KROHN It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry brings the beloved holiday story to life in a fresh and charming way. Set inside a 1940s radio studio, a small group of actors performs the...
Bringing Frank Capra’s classic film to the stage, this radio play adaptation tells the heartwarming tale of George Bailey as he reflects on his life
By Quiara Alegría Hudes.
By Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, Ed Howard.
By Kate Hamill, Jane Austen.
By Tim Firth.
By Lauren Gunderson.
A thrilling, darkly funny new musical, LIKE FATHER at the Alliance Theatre pairs an electrifying score with a gripping story and powerhouse performances in a world premiere that lives up to the hype.…
Theatrical Outfit's stirring new production reminds audiences exactly why FENCES continues to resonate so profoundly, pairing Wilson's masterful script with a cast that delivers some of the finest acting currently on an Atlanta stage.…
City Springs Theatre Company opens its ninth season with a powerful LES MISÉRABLES, led by standout turns from Jacob Keith Watson and Jonathan Christopher. Onstage at Byers Theatre through September 27.…
'Never work with kids or animals.' This is advice that the Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville has doubly ignored with their current production of the musical Annie. Thankfully so, since the child stars dazzle - and the dog does too.…
What did our critic think of HELEN OF THE WEST at 7 Stages?…
Finding the courage to be yourself is rarely easy. Finding that courage in a place where tradition, expectation, and conformity are woven into the fabric of daily life can feel nearly impossible. That tension sits at the heart of CHOIR BOY, now on stage at Actor's Express. Tarell Alvin McCraney's po…
City Springs Theatre Conservatory's high school cast brings full-scale polish to 'Guys and Dolls' at Byers Theatre, led by standout Jake James.…
Featuring music and lyrics by Gloria Estefan and Emily Estefan, a book by Karen Zacarías, and direction by Michael Greif, BASURA is a vibrant, uplifting new musical filled with heart, hope, and the transformative power of music.…
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical In the Heights takes standard Broadway fare and moves it slightly more uptown - to 183rd Street, to be specific. Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre has its patrons do the same, moving a little further north outside the Perimeter to see their own new production of t…
Take six insanely talented songstresses, a four-piece all-female band, an intricate LED-based set piece, some glow-in-the-dark glasses and studded platform boots, and what have you got? Surely not a historical recreation of the tale of Henry VIII and his six infamous wives. Yet that is exactly what …
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LIKE FATHER Alliance Theatre (10/08-11/15) |
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Wicked Fox Theatre (3/03-3/28) |
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Christmas Canteen Aurora Theatre (11/19-12/23) |
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Blind Boys of Alabama at Spivey Hall Spivey Hall (11/21-11/21) |
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Legendary Count Basie Orchestra with Nnenna Freelon Rialto Center for the Arts (4/23-4/23) |
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Bill Charlap Trio at Rialto Center Rialto Center for the Arts (2/27-2/27) |
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THE CHILDREN Theatrical Outfit (5/19-6/13) |
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Little Shop of Horrors 40th Anniversary Tour with Ellen Greene (the Original Audrey) Atlanta Symphony Hall (11/13-11/13) |
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The Rock Orchestra by Candlelight Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (11/21-11/21) |
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Heaven on Earth Lionheart Theatre (11/06-11/22) |
