Lee Osorio

​​​​​​​Actor's Express announces its 36th season of sensational, fearless work, including two musicals, a World Premiere and two plays by well-loved playwrights with Atlanta connections. AE will also mount its third annual co-production with Oglethorpe University Theatre and will also welcome back Atlanta singing legend Libby Whittemore for her annual holiday concert.

The Del Shores Foundation has revealed the winners of the second Del Shores Foundation Writers Search from the unproduced plays, screenplays and shorts/web series scripts of LGBTQ+ Southern writers.

Saints and Sinners, an annual LGBTQ+ literary festival, will run concurrently with the The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, March 24-26, 2023 for its 20th year. Founded by Paul Willis, Greg Herren, and Jean Redmann in collaboration with NO/AIDS Task Force in 2003, Saints + Sinners (SAS) began as a creative outlet to showcase the vibrant and diverse LGBTQ+ literary community and offer HIV/AIDS information.

The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival will return to the historic French Quarter for its 37th annual celebration of contemporary literature, theatre, New Orleans culture, and, of course, Tennessee Williams. Kicking off on Sunday, March 19 with a new twist on the beloved Stella Shouting Contest, this year's Festival is filled with new partnerships, expanded programming, and award-winning speakers, alongside fresh new voices on the literary scene.

While the doors to the Balzer Theater at Herren's are blocked by construction vehicles for the “Heart of the City” Capital Campaign renovation, Theatrical Outfit (TO) is putting new work center stage with Made in Atlanta. 

Theatrical Outfit has announced The Graham Martin UNEXPECTED PLAY FESTIVAL 2022 – a four-part series of digital readings of brand-new plays by Atlanta playwrights in partnership with Working Title Playwrights. Over four nights some of the best talent in ATL will come together to share fresh and topical stories with you.

Out of Hand Theater, working at the intersection of art, social justice, and civic engagement, has used the tools of theater to help build a more just world for 20 years. This year the theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary.

In a true return to original form, AN ILIAD at Theatrical Outfit is an intimate performance of the story of Hector and Achilles as told by one person – The Poet himself. Played by Suzi Bass Award-winner Lee Osorio, The Poet guides the audience through a tragically epic story, complete with props and the occasional help of The Muse, Deisha Oliver on cello. 

Theatrical Outfit returns to the stage with its first live production in nearly 18 months – An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, based On Homer's The Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles.

Crescent City Stagewill continue their Free Virtual Reading Series with 'Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley' by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. With award-winning actors from coast to coast, they hope you will join them for this special benefit performance with all donations going directly to Second Harvest Food Bank.

Out of Hand Theater is offering free tickets to stream their highest selling show, Conceal and Carry. Written by Sean Christopher Lewis, Conceal and Carry traces one liberal's journey to unpack his own- and his country's- complicated relationship to guns.

Out of Hand will produce Atlanta Theater Dinner, a facilitated conversation about race and equity in the Atlanta Theater community launched by an original short play created for the event. Atlanta Theater Dinner will be held on February 10, 2020 at 6:30pm in partnership with One Small Change/Both And. The evening will be hosted by The Bakery in their brand-new space in Underground Atlanta, New Square, at 76 Wall Street SW.

Out of Hand Theater presents the world premier of Conceal and Carry, one liberal's journey to unpack his own, and this country's, complicated relationship to guns. The one-person show will be performed in homes across the Metro Atlanta area from September 6 to November 23, 2019.

Found Stages and Dunwoody Nature Center are joining to present the first play in the second annual 'Wine & Reading Series,' Lee Osorio's Faith.

Found Stages and Dunwoody Nature Center are partnering to present a six-month 'Wine & Reading Series' of new plays by nationally known playwrights who call Atlanta home.

The Billie Holiday Theatre at RestorationART, in association with Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company, is presenting Colman Domingo's Dot under the direction of Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon (American Son currently on Broadway starring Kerry Washington, A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson's Fences) and starring Emmy Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre alumna Denise Burse ('Black Mirror,' Tyler Perry's 'House of Payne') as Dotty. The production began previews on October 20th, opened on October 25th and will run through November 18th at The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Scroll down for full coverage of the evening's festivities.

Right off the heels of their critical and commercial smash hit, TITANIC: THE MUSICAL, Serenbe Playhouse, recipient of the prestigious American Theatre Wing grant is excited to present a sexy, cutting edge, modern version of THE SEAGULL, adapted and directed by Yale School of Drama MFA graduate Elizabeth Dinkova. The show runs through September 30th, with the official press opening on Friday, September 7th.

Right off the heels of their critical and commercial smash hit, TITANIC: THE MUSICAL, Serenbe Playhouse, recipient of the prestigious American Theatre Wing grant is excited to present a sexy, cutting edge, modern version of THE SEAGULL, adapted and directed by Yale School of Drama MFA graduate Elizabeth Dinkova. The show runs through September 30th, with the official press opening on Friday, September 7th.

Fresh off the mammoth production of the musical Titanic, a production that garnered a boatload of much-deserved national press, Serenbe Playhouse is offering up something radically different this month: a modern reimagining of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, complete with hypnotic Balkan music by talented composer Anais Azul. The ambitious play, under the direction of Elizabeth Dinkova, the adaptor of the work, is worth seeing for the gorgeous site-specific staging at Peek Lake near Serenbe, a setting that a purist's Chekhov would also flourish in, but Dinkova's experimental script tries too hard to make a statement about art's power to blur the boundaries between reality and illusion, relying much too heavily on the intrusive narratorial voice of Constance, a gender-flipped Konstantin from the original work, to frame out its profundity for us. In addition, turning the heavy language of Chekhov into the spare language of today's texters and tweeters is a tricky business, and Dinkova's dialogue often feels clunky and forced. In the end, the production, though visually stunning and mostly well-acted, never quite takes flight.