Recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play, Loy Webb’s debut work, The Light, hits the Horizon stage from March 19th-April 17th (Press Opening March 25th). Horizon’s regional premiere of The Light is an intimate, funny, and powerful look at love today in all its complexity, featuring two of Atlanta’s most dynamic actors, Enoch King and Cynthia D. Barker.
The Alliance Theatre will present the inspiring and timely world premiere play, BINA'S SIX APPLES, on The Coca-Cola Stage from March 11–27, 2022. This co-production with Children's Theatre Company concluded its run in Minnesota earlier this month to much critical acclaim.
In the spring, theatres return to their season, bringing art back to the masses. The Atlanta theatre schedule this spring is one you can’t miss. Here are nine shows we’re most looking forward to this spring.
A co-production with Milwaukee Repertory Theater on the Coca-Cola Stage until February 27, 2022, Alliance Theatre shares that TONI STONE is considered 'the 'Best New Play of 2019' by The Wall Street Journal,' and 'is a funny and fascinating story of race, gender, and raw ambition… and an unheralded superstar you’ll never forget.'
Alexis Woodard is the Spelman Leadership Fellow and director of the Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young production DO YOU LOVE THE DARK? Hear about the inspiration for DO YOU LOVE THE DARK? and why littles ones will love this new show.
The Phoenix Theatre will present The Magnolia Ballet by Terry Guest, March 17 - April 10, 2022. Terry Guest is an award-winning Playwright, Actor, Producer, Poet and Teaching Artist based in Chicago, IL.
The Alliance Theatre announces updates for its upcoming Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young programs. Performances of DO YOU LOVE THE DARK? will now run February 24 – March 13, 2022 in the Selig Family Black Box Theatre, and IN MY GRANNY'S GARDEN will be staged outdoors at the Woodruff Arts Center on Sifly Plaza March 31 – April 24, 2022.
If God ever listened to a poor black woman, the world would be a different place. –Celie
The Color Purple is currently playing at Roxy’s Downtown. Their production is impressive, powerful, well-cast, and extremely well-wrought, from performances to design elements and direction. Do yourself a favor and get tickets for this show ASAP. The opening week shows were sold out, and I hear the rest of the run is selling out quickly.
Long Wharf Theatre has announced the complete cast and creative team for Dream Hou$e co-produced by Alliance Theatre and Baltimore Center Stage. Written by Eliana Pipes (Unf*ckwithable) and directed by Laurie Woolery (As You Like It), Dream Hou$e begins performances on Tuesday, March 15th for a limited run through Sunday, April 3rd, 2022.
Playing on The Alliance's Hertz Stage, DREAM HOU$E follows the story of two Latinx sisters - Julia and Patricia Castillo - as they sell their family home on a popular home renovation TV show.
Foundations crack as the walls begin to talk and not a single tile in the house is without a story to tell. [Written by Ella Outlaw]
With two major revivals on stage helmed by Artistic Collective members—August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean directed by Resident Director Chuck Smith (through February 27) and Manilow Resident Director Mary Zimmerman's The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (February 11 – March 20)—the Goodman announces several artistic updates as its 2021/2022 “Homecoming” Season continues.
The 7th Annual off Broadway and Touring Production of The FunikiJam Show 'SHENANIGANS: Irish Celebration!', co-produced by World Music Theatre Company and Gatehouse Entertainment, opens March 6 at Actors Temple Theatre and travels to schools and performance venues from NYC to New England through March 20.
The hugely anticipated Broadway revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man has just released the first production image of Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley in character as Marcellus Washburn.
The 7th Annual off Broadway and Touring Production of The FunikiJam Show 'SHENANIGANS: Irish Celebration!', co-produced by World Music Theatre Company and Gatehouse Entertainment, opens March 6 at Actors Temple Theatre and travels to schools and performance venues from NYC to New England through March 20.
Everyone's invited to the national tour of the 2019 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Musical, THE PROM, playing the Providence Performing Arts Center from March 8 – 13, 2022!
Although “Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous” is the title of Atlanta playwright Pearl Cleage’s new play, it quite amply describes the two women at the center of this literary comedy.
DREAM HOU$E follows two Latina sisters who go on an HGTV-style reality show to sell their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification happening in their 'changing neighborhood.'
Broadway and television star Andy Mientus brings Joni Mitchell’s iconic 1970 album “Ladies of the Canyon” to life in a new filmed concert, captured last winter in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The film features performances by Christy Altomare, Tony Award winner Nikki M. James, Krista Pioppi, and Cathy Ang.