Out Front Theatre’s production of SnowGirls: The Musical, a holiday parody of the notorious 1995 erotic thriller film Showgirls, onstage from December 7 through December 17, required its director, cast and crew to do a surprising amount of research. In addition to watching the film over and over to make sure the tale of aspiring…
A visually dazzling, inventively staged production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s tragedy Blood Wedding, performed by a mix of 16 female and nonbinary Emory University students and professional actors, runs until November 19 at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater on campus. The script, translated by the poet Langston Hughes and adapted by Melia Bensussen, addresses how…
Returning to an Atlanta stage for the first time since its stellar 2016 debut at the Alliance, Out Front Theatre’s production of The Prom generates big-time joy with its zany comedy and great music. The cast of the show, running through November 11 at Out Front, is its greatest asset, though the material by Chad…
Georgia Ensemble Theatre will introduce itself to its new Marietta audience with abundant tension and chills on Halloween weekend, opening its first season at Jennie T. Anderson Theatre with the claustrophobic thriller Wait Until Dark. The Frederick Knott play about a blind woman terrorized in a basement apartment by home invaders seeking smuggled diamonds, adapted…
The Queen Mab Players, a small theater troupe associated with RoleCall Theater, attempts to stir up a little Shakespearean magic with its bare-bones, black box production of The Tempest, onstage at Limelight Theater through November 5. The performers are committed, with most of the cast taking on dual roles in the play, and it is…
The 2023 Suzi Bass Award nominations, recognizing achievements in Atlanta professional theater, were announced Sunday, with the Alliance Theatre’s Broadway-bound Water for Elephants receiving the most nominations for a musical and Prayer for the French Republic at Actor’s Express as the most recognized play. Award judges also notably celebrated Guys and Dolls and Next to…
Driven by action and buckets of blood, Dracula: The Failings of Men, a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel onstage at Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse from October 7 through October 31, will give audiences unexpected thrills and spectacle, its makers said. Havoc Movement Company, which specializes in stunt, circus and stage combat performance, has brought the…
The ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan, where the drinking water of the city was contaminated with lead after government officials switched its source from Lake Huron to Flint River, haunts three generations of Black women in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Cullud Wattah, opening today at Actor’s Express and on stage through October 15. The Cooper family…
Three old friends gather at the basketball court to see who can win at the game and in life in playwright Alonzo D. Lamont’s That Serious He-Man Ball, presented by True Colors Theatre at Southwest Arts Center from September 19 to October 15. To play the old friends, director Eric J. Little assembled a cast…
Officials say the shows will go on at Shakespeare Tavern and Playhouse despite an arson attempt in the early hours of August 13 that resulted in significant water damage to the space after the sprinklers were triggered. According to a statement and photos posted by Artistic Director Jeff Watkins on the company Instagram Sunday, the…
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