The musical Tick, Tick . . . Boom! revolves around an aspiring composer named Jonathan Larson as he tries to launch his career in musical theater amid setbacks, rejections and failure. Tick, Tick . . . Boom! is onstage at Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre three months after a planned concert production of Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Vanity Fair aims to hit high class and low comedy in the new production at Georgia Ensemble Theatre. It misses both targets. For example, there is a scene where flatulence drowns out aristocratic dialogue. When heroine Becky Sharp steps upon one rung of the social ladder for wealth and social status in Regency England, she manages…
Run, don’t walk, to the Alliance Theatre for Toni Stone. Onstage through February 27, this baseball-centric production is a must-see. It stuns. It challenges. It amuses and enlightens. It educates and entertains. It’s based on history, yet it feels new, alive and revolutionary. There is no other play like it. Playwright Lydia R. Diamond, whose…
Like the Montagues and Capulets, a variety of tones clash on the streets of fair Verona in the Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s newest staging of Romeo and Juliet. Moments that should be heartbreaking are undercut by some weird comic choices, conflicting acting styles and anachronisms. As a result, the playful romance works, but the tragedy doesn’t…
Any romance that leaves us better than it found us is a success, no matter its ending. If you learned something or if the love you felt was real, even just a little real, you carry it into your future, together or apart. With Bright Half Life, the two-person play by Tanya Barfield onstage at…
The show must go on. And, at a time like this, Atlanta theaters have discovered new and innovative ways to make that happen. During the first year of the pandemic, while empty stages around the country kept on the ghostlight, Actor’s Express sought a way to continue telling stories. Eventually, through a grant from the…
With its new production of Wonderland: Alice’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventure, Synchronicity Theatre provides what feels like a garage rock concert for tweens. A live band is onstage, occasionally with the Cheshire Cat on guitar and Alice on vocals, and the vibe is fun, spontaneous and a bit ramshackle and unpolished. It’s noble to teach…
An Atlanta Christmas has its delightful traditions: the great tree atop Macy’s at Lenox Square, a different Santa Claus in every mall, multiple Nutcrackers dancing with sugar plum fairies, a variety of choirs in concert and the lights at Atlanta Botanical Garden. But the most enduring holiday tradition in Atlanta theater lets a very, very…
Few Atlanta theater artists knew Stephen Sondheim personally. Yet the loss felt personal for countless Atlanta actors, directors and other theater professionals, as is apparent in social media posts and buzz that has spread following the death of the acclaimed songwriter and master of musical theater at age 91 last Friday. ArtsATL asked Atlanta theater-world…
When Ebenezer Scrooge awakens from his dark Christmas night to a brighter morning full of possibility, audiences are reminded that it’s never too late for second chances. The reason A Christmas Carol has been a staple at the Alliance Theatre for 32 years is because it offers people an annual opportunity to reflect and renew,…
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