As the title character in the new play Hometown Boy learns, you can go home again. But sometimes you shouldn’t. The secrets that lie at the center of the world premiere drama, onstage at Actor’s Express through November 28, are deceptively hidden within the early dialogue. As they come out, they threaten to split apart…
Hometown Boy, a Southern play filled with juicy secrets and quick wit, receiving its world premiere November 3 at Actor’s Express, begins with a young man returning to his father’s home after a decade, only to find the doors locked. He spends much of the first scene trying to find his way in. Playwright Keiko…
The party never stops in The Exterminating Angel. But instead of a charmed life being a carefree dream, it can devolve into a slow-building nightmare. That’s one of the many messages to derive from Vernal & Sere Theatre‘s cool, challenging adaptation of the 1962 Luis Buñuel film, onstage at the Windmill Arts Center in East…
It’s a nice notion to believe that childhood is a sacred, protected time, but such a blessing is not true perpetually or distributed equally. It’s something to hope for, something deserved, but it usually doesn’t happen or doesn’t last. The Bluest Eye, an adaptation of Toni Morrison‘s novel by playwright Lydia R. Diamond at Synchronicity…
War is inherently epic. The famed film director François Truffaut said that it was impossible to make an anti-war film because every feature depicting war makes explosions and battle fun to watch, that the storytellers inevitably give the audience a kind of hero. An Iliad, running through October 10 at Theatrical Outfit, tackles the noble…
Though many of the elements of Darlin’ Cory, the new musical opening the Alliance Theatre’s 2021–22 season, are dazzling, the clumsy delivery of the show’s central mystery hampers its overall success. Musical mystery-thriller is a difficult genre to tackle, as complicated as a tightrope walk, and poor Cory stumbles and falls before it reaches the…
It is no small feat for a Wall to steal a scene, yet the Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s fun, novel approach to A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse allows for moments like that. In its first staged production since the pandemic shutdown of March 2020 and the racial reckoning of last summer, the Tavern…
Horizon Theatre’s latest Zoom production, Love, M., is a world premiere that feels like a relic. The drama, set in the 1980s and ’90s when AIDS began claiming the lives of young men, feels like a well-intended “Very Special Episode” of a sitcom from the era. Love, M. opened December 1, on World AIDS Day,…
If Horizon Theatre Company’s online production of Completeness is any indication of what this season will bring for those of us who miss theater, audiences can have hope. The experience of watching virtually from home with 135 others is strange and not without hiccup, but it’s possible to lose yourself in this romantic comedy by…
If today was a normal Thursday, Barrett Doyle would be making final tweaks to his scenic design for Serenbe Playhouse’s Spring Awakening. But it’s not a normal Thursday, and the show won’t open tomorrow. Serenbe Playhouse, like every other theater company in metro Atlanta, has gone dark until it’s safe to socialize again in the age…
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