Director Ric Roman Waugh (Felon, Shot Caller, Angel Has Fallen) anticipated premiering his latest film, the made-in-Atlanta action thriller Greenland at the start of summer movie season last May. By the time his team reached the final stages of post-production, COVID-19 had hit. After delays and some rethinking, Greenland premiered December 18 on Amazon Prime…
In an unintended game of musical chairs, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company is once again looking for an artistic director. Jon Carr, who spent less than a year in the job, recently left to lead the Chicago-based Second City companies. He succeeded Kevin Gillese (2010-2020), who left the position but not the company. Enter longtime Dad’s…
Chances are a four–person, drive–in version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol wasn’t on many must–do lists this holiday. Yet with COVID-19 making in-person performing a challenge, theaters are having to adapt. The Alliance Theatre, after streaming several shows of late, found a new way to tell its annual tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and all…
Now that the final structural beams have been put in place, Aurora Theatre and the city of Lawrenceville are ready to move to the next phase of the new Lawrenceville Performing Arts Center. The Aurora team and city leaders recently held a topping out ceremony, then invited the press to see the work in progress….
COVID-19 put the brakes on dozens of movies and TV shows that had been planning to shoot in metro Atlanta. But in the past 12 weeks or so, with safety protocols in place, many studios have resumed work. It’s not at pre-COVID levels yet, but motors are revving. “Georgia film is back on track,” says…
Michael Haverty always knew that adapting Albert Camus’ 1942 novel L’ Etranger / The Stranger would be challenging. And he always envisioned it in its workshop versions as live theater with projected film elements. When COVID-19 locked everyone down, he had to change course. The Stranger has morphed into a full-fledged puppet–film adaptation. The world…
It usually takes actors time to build a portfolio before landing a leading role in a movie, but Atlanta’s Jahzir Bruno has done it incredibly fast. The 11-year-old goes head to head with Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer in a new version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, now streaming on HBO Max. Bruno,…
It was only six or so months ago that Aurora Theatre had the Gloria Estefan musical On Your Feet! on its mainstage, but it seems a lot longer than that. Covid-19 hit during the run, and theaters here and everywhere came to a halt with no real timeline for a return. Aurora is back now…
What it lacks in in-person networking and connections, this weekend’s SCAD AnimationFest makes up for in programming with two full days of sessions, panel discussions and big-name projects. The festival (running Friday and Saturday) will be an online event able to reach animation students and fans outside Atlanta. Leigh Seaman, senior executive director of SCADFILM,…
Zachary Todd never really envisioned himself as a filmmaker growing up. His forte had always been dance. But when Covid-19 stilled the arts community, he realized he’d need to to stay artistically afloat. Armed with an iPhone, he and a crew knocked out a new series of short films in a single afternoon. The project,…
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