Author: Jim Farmer

When Del Hamilton and his wife, Faye Allen, founded 7 Stages Theatre in 1979, they had no idea they’d still be running it more than three decades later. After years of planning for the future of the Little Five Points venue, the two have now passed the torch. At the start of the year, Heidi S….

As someone who keeps her eyes open for new talent, Susan Booth, artistic director of the Alliance Theatre, was giddy when she first heard about the singing country and western Chalk sisters. A folk and country music geek herself — “nothing makes me happier than guitar and fiddle music” — Booth learned about the fictional…

Although he appears all over Atlanta stages throughout the year, it’s during the holiday season that actor Chris Kayser dons his best-known role, that of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Alliance Theatre‘s annual “A Christmas Carol.” In Rosemary Newcott’s lavish version of the Charles Dickens classic, running Friday, November 23, through December 23 at the Alliance, a…

Actress and director Jasmine Guy lives by a pretty simple professional rule these days: if Kenny Leon asks her to do something, she does it. No questions are asked, even if she has doubts. So when Leon, artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company, asked her to direct the regional premiere of “The Mountaintop,” she consented, although…

Maybe it’s something in the air, but a few weeks after Halloween, bloodletting is the rage at several local theater companies. Besides the new “Wolves” at Actor’s Express, Theater Emory is offering “Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest: Tales of a Precarious Nature,” running through November 18 at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater. Originally developed as part of the company’s…

In an evening of both predictable winners and surprising selections, the Suzi Awards waited until the final prize to toss its most notable curve ball. Although Aurora Theatre’s “Clyde ‘n Bonnie: A Folktale” led the ceremony with the most wins and seemed likely to capture the grand prize, Actor’s Express’ rock opera “Spring Awakening” received the coveted…

A new theater company hoping to fill the void of the defunct Theatre in the Square will launch in the same location in Marietta tonight. Marietta Theatre, with Ed Howard as artistic director, will kick off with “The Summer of Daisy Fay,” written by Howard and running through November 25. Veronika Duerr appears in the one-person…

Known more as a philanthropist for the arts than an artist, Bill Balzer, 69, is looking forward to seeing his maiden play open in a theater named, fittingly enough, after himself — the Balzer Theater at Theatrical Outfit. “Two Drink Minimum,” running today, October 24, through November 18, is Balzer’s autobiographical play about the unorthodox relationship between him…

After spending a few months as an understudy for main character Diana Goodman late in the Broadway run of “Next to Normal,” Catherine Porter is looking forward to finally stepping into the character’s troubled skin. She’s the lead in the Alliance Theatre’s version of the show, directed by Broadway veteran Scott Schwartz and running through November…