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Dunwoody's own professional theatre, STAGE DOOR PLAYERS welcomes Topher Payne's world premiere comedy to its stage this December! Let Nothing You Dismay opens on Friday, December 4 and runs through December 20.

Conservative parents and their liberal children face off in Jon Robin Baitz's (ABC's Brothers & Sisters) thrilling drama Other Desert Cities - a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-nominated 'Best New Play on Broadway' (New York Times). Out of Box Theatre presents the Atlanta premiere of the play that opens up the closed doors so the whole world can see what's happening behind them.

STAGE DOOR PLAYERS closes their 41st season with the murder mystery musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Rupert Holmes, directed by Robert Egizio. Drood opens tonight, July 10, and runs through Sunday, August 2.

STAGE DOOR PLAYERS closes their 41st season with the murder mystery musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Rupert Holmes, directed by Robert Egizio. Drood opens on Friday, July 10, and runs through Sunday, August 2.

Perhaps no modern play has been so engrained in our country's consciousness over the past five decades as Neil Simon's classic comedy, THE ODD COUPLE. That fact notwithstanding, Stage Door Players' production, running now through August 3rd, still finds new and inventive ways to entertain. The production, directed by Shelly McCook, stars Stage Door's Artistic Director Robert Egizio as uptight Felix Unger, and the Atlanta Lyric Theatre's Associate Artistic Director Alan Kilpatrick as the slovenly Oscar Madison. Oscar takes in his best friend Felix after he is kicked out by his wife, despite the fact that the two have little in common, other than their weekly poker game.

Stage Door Players closes its 40th Anniversary Season with Neil Simon's Tony Award winning comedy The Odd Couple, featuring the company's Artistic Director, Robert Egizio in the role of fastidious Felix Unger. Alan Kilpatrick, Associate Artistic Director of the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, treads the boards as everyone's favorite slob, Oscar Madison. The show opens tonight, July 11, 8pm curtain, and runs until August 3.

Stage Door Players closes its 40th Anniversary Season with Neil Simon's Tony Award winning comedy The Odd Couple, featuring the company's Artistic Director, Robert Egizio in the role of fastidious Felix Unger. Alan Kilpatrick, Associate Artistic Director of the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, treads the boards as everyone's favorite slob, Oscar Madison. The show opens on Friday, July 11, 8pm curtain, and runs until August 3.

Stage Door Players, Dunwoody's own professional theatre company, continues its 40th Anniversary Season with Godspell 2012, music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, directed by Brian Clowdus, Artistic Director of Serenbe Playhouse. The show opens tonight, May 16, 8pm curtain, and runs until June 5. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm, and Sundays at 2:30pm. There are also two Thursday evening performances: May 29 and June 5, at 8pm.

STAGE DOOR PLAYERS, Dunwoody's own professional theatre company, continues its 40th Anniversary Season with Godspell 2012, music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, directed by Brian Clowdus, Artistic Director of Serenbe Playhouse. The show opens on Friday, May 16, 8pm curtain, and runs until June 5. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm, and Sundays at 2:30pm. There are also two Thursday evening performances: May 29 and June 5, at 8pm.

STAGE DOOR PLAYERS, Dunwoody's own professional theatre company, continues its 40th Anniversary Season with Miracle on South Division Street by Tom Dudzick, directed by Dina Shadwell. The show opens on Friday, March 21, 8pm curtain, and runs until April 13. The cast features mother-son duo Susan Shalhoub Larkin and Tony Larkin (on stage together for the first time!), Kara Cantrell, and Kelly Criss (who just directed SDP's On Golden Pond). Single tickets are on sale now at the box office (770-396-1726), or online at www.stagedoorplayers.net. Tickets for Miracle are $27. Senior, student and youth discounts are available. Stage Door Players is located at 5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338, approx one block South of the Mt. Vernon Road and Chamblee Dunwoody Road intersection, in the North Dekalb Cultural Arts Center.

'Equus', now playing through April 21st at Actor's Express, is not a show that will appeal to everyone as it treads not so lightly on a number of rather taboo issues. That being said, if your sensibilities are not easily rattled, you will no doubt be astounded by the insight, artistry, and ability of AE's extraordinary cast, under the precision direction of David Crowe.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Theater Awards, founded by Russ Ivey, originated in October of 2004 with the intention of recognizing those hardworking individuals that put their time and effort into Community and Non-Union Professional Theater. There are many aspiring actors that would like to be given recognition for their skills and dedication to the performing arts. Many of those are of the desire to build their resume so that they will be given more audition opportunities. Secondly, many theaters have a hard time marketing themselves so they can draw not only an audience, but a lot of the talent to their shows. This is where the MAT Awards come in. The 'MAT' is one of thirty one different categories that are presented on an annual basis. Each year, an Award Ceremony is held to present those awards to the individuals/theaters that have put the time and effort into making their productions great. Those categories are the following:

The much-anticipated play, Broadsword, makes its world premiere at Actor's Express, Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 5 p.m. The play, which is part supernatural, part heavy metal, and all 80s nostalgia, centers on estranged bandmates that reunite when their most creative (and undoubtedly most neurotic) bandmate who has mysteriously disappeared.

The much-anticipated play, Broadsword, makes its world premiere at Actor's Express, Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 5 p.m. The play, which is part supernatural, part heavy metal, and all 80s nostalgia, centers on estranged bandmates that reunite when their most creative (and undoubtedly most neurotic) bandmate who has mysteriously disappeared.

Actor's Express presents the Southeastern premiere production of a suspenseful new drama, Good Boys & True, Jan. 14 through Feb. 13, 2010

Actor's Express presents the Southeastern premiere production of a suspenseful new drama, Good Boys & True, Jan. 14 through Feb. 13, 2010