The Randolph Caldecott Medal-winning children’s book Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale will become an original musical at Synchronicity Theatre, running from January 27 to February 17 and bringing author and illustrator John Steptoe’s words and artwork to vibrant life onstage for audiences of all ages. Collaborators Taryn Janelle and LeRell Ross created this new…
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, a production for young audiences onstage at Synchronicity Theatre through December 24, contains charm and magic not only in its story but in its performances. Because of the skill exhibited onstage, it will likely inspire a love for live theater in the children who come to see it. It’s…
With Christmas Canteen, Aurora Theatre’s annual holiday musical showcase onstage through December 23, the Lawrenceville-based troupe hauls out the holly and raises spirits in a big way for its community. Now in its 27th year, organizers said the United Service Organizations-style variety program is a Christmas card for its audience, featuring a cast of faces…
Those Christmas-obsessed heroes and heroines from made-for-TV romances get to choose their own unscripted adventure in Y’allmark Christmas: An Improvised Holiday “Movie”, onstage at Horizon Theatre through December 23. Though audiences can still expect that wholesome holiday spirit during every performance, each has a touch of wacky subversiveness as well. The show was devised by…
The 2021-22 Suzi Awards presentation spread the wealth among its nominated shows, with the top prizes of Best Play and Best Musical going to the Alliance Theatre’s Dream House and Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s Ain’t Misbehavin’. Highlights of the evening included a heartfelt presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jon Ludwig, artistic director, longtime puppeteer…
Though its cast is committed to the strangeness of the material, The Tempest, onstage at Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse through November 27, lacks much of the magic of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s best productions. The Tavern is most interesting these days when its shows lean into inventive casting and new ideas, embracing the diversity and experimental…
Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre marks its 20th anniversary this weekend with a series of special events that organizers hope will feel more like a theater experience than a traditional fundraising gala. Founded in 2002 by Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon and Jane Bishop, True Colors Theatre Company’s mission is to celebrate the tradition of…
Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, adapted into a two-person play onstage at Georgia Ensemble Theatre through November 13, has endured as one of the most popular ghost stories, in part because it provides no easy answers. Nobody, save for James, definitively knows what happened at Bly Manor with that strange governess and those…
To mark its 25th year of live storytelling events where everyday people take to the stage with true, unscripted tales from their lives, The Moth returns to its Georgia roots by bringing its Pop Up Porch Tour to Atlanta, Wednesday through Sunday. The nationwide storytelling group got its start in New York in 1997 after…
Hurricane Season, the new Vernal & Sere Theatre production onstage at Windmill Arts Center in East Point through October 23, aims to attract and repulse its audience, often in the same moment, as a way of testing its limits. On one hand, it’s a kinky and sexy show about a middle-aged couple rediscovering their connection…
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