Over the years, Netflix’s shot-in-Georgia drama Ozark has been notable for including Atlanta-area talent, and the new season is no exception. Local actress Tess Malis Kincaid figures prominently in the first half of Season 4, premiering Friday. It’s the final season for the show, with the second half to premiere at a TBD time. For…
Even before the pandemic, Marium Khalid sensed it was time. The founder and artistic director of Saiah Arts International theater company was eager to make a transition from the kinds of work she had been staging for more than a decade in Atlanta. By the time Covid-19 forced arts organizations to scramble in how they…
Less than a year after he accepted the job as artistic director at Dunwoody’s Stage Door Theatre, Willie E. Jones III has left the company. Jones resigned just before Thanksgiving, according to board chair Donald Boyken. When former artistic director Robert Egizio was furloughed in 2020 — after what Stage Door’s board said was a…
Director Susan Morgan Cooper’s reaction when she first heard about Justin Ross Harris and the death of Harris’ 22-month-old son Cooper in the back seat of his SUV was one of shock. “I thought he was a monster,” she recalls, a sentiment many others shared. Yet after reading an article in The Washington Post about…
Anthony Rodriguez’s friends remember it vividly, but he doesn’t. When they remind him his post-college plans included opening a theater company, he laughs because he has no recollection of that. Despite a shaky memory, that alleged statement has proved prophetic. As president, CEO and co-founder (alongside associate producer Ann-Carol Pence) of Aurora Theatre, Rodriguez has…
Last spring, Covid threw a monkey wrench into the carefully laid plans of theater companies across Atlanta and the world. Some of those companies improvised and offered streaming versions of their work; others pivoted and staged outdoor productions. Many, though, waited until they were able to host regular performances again — or at least what…
Sometimes, a classic theater production feels like the absolute right play at the right moment. Other times, a mirror ball and roller skates can do the trick. After a 19-month break from live theatrical performances, Out Front Theatre Company knew it needed just the right fit as it opened up again, and the campy Xanadu…
At one time the idea of a new Brian Clowdus production opening in the area, following the controversy that surrounded his leadership after he departed Serenbe Playhouse, seemed like it would elevate apprehension and generate automatic protests from the Atlanta theater community. As Clowdus returns to open a new show this week, though, no one…
After the Richard Greenberg play The Author’s Voice in Chicago brought director Lisa Peterson and Tony Award-winning actor Denis O’Hare together for the first time in 1988, they hoped that there would be future shared gigs. It took a full 15 years to collaborate again, but the pair eventually reunited to pen An Iliad, a…
Director Jason Pollock is angry — and that rage pours over in his new documentary Finding Kendrick Johnson, detailing the case of the 17-year-old Valdosta student whose body was found inside a high school gymnasium mat. The film is currently streaming and will be in theaters this fall. On January 11, 2013, Johnson was found…
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