Author: Jim Farmer

Alfred Uhry’s plays are revered wherever they’re produced, but as a native son, he is especially celebrated in Atlanta. His much-lauded “Driving Miss Daisy” played for two years at the Alliance Theatre, during the 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons, making it one of the city’s longest-running plays. “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” the second play in Uhry’s…

As Robert Egizio puts finishing touches on the Stage Door Players’ version of the comedic “Out of Order” that he’s directing, he’s proud not just of the new season he’s kicking off but of how the Dunwoody-based theater has grown over the years. (“Out of Order” opens tonight and runs through October 14.) Egizio, the artistic director…

Those loud guitar riffs emanating from the downtown area this weekend aren’t necessarily all from Music Midtown. “Dracula: The Rock Opera” has opened and is playing through October 14 at 7 Stages. Postponed from last season at the Little Five Points venue, “Dracula” is a world premiere that kicks off the theater’s 34th season. Concocted…

Atlanta playwright Pearl Cleage’s stint as a speechwriter and press secretary for Maynard Jackson when he was Atlanta’s mayor is inspiration for her new political comedy “What I Learned in Paris,” a world premiere playing at the Alliance Theatre through September 30. It’s an often wobbly production, overlong yet underachieving, but one that’s redeemed by a larger-than-life…

Chris Kayser doesn’t know. Neither does Carolyn Cook. The Atlanta actors, among the most talented in the city, have performed together for so long that they’ve lost count of the exact number of productions the two have both been in. It’s happening again in Horizon Theatre’s “Time Stands Still,” by acclaimed playwright Donald Margulies, who won…

“Clyde ‘n Bonnie: A Folktale,” the world-premiere musical staged by Aurora Theatre in the spring, led the field when nominations for the 2011-12 Suzi Bass Awards, Atlanta’s version of the Tony Awards, were announced Monday night. The bouncy production, depicting the infamous bank robbers, was nominated in virtually every musical category it was eligible for, including…

When the annual Suzi Bass Awards nominations are announced Monday at Aurora Theatre, high-profile local productions from last season such as Actor’s Express’ “Spring Awakening,” Georgia Shakespeare’s “The Glass Menagerie” and Aurora’s “Clyde ’n Bonnie: A Folktale” are expected to be on the short list for nods. But a few smaller or underdog shows might sneak…

Mira Hirsch laughs that many people, because of her background, assume that she aggressively pursued taking on the new production of “My Name Is Asher Lev” at Theatrical Outfit. In actuality, it’s the opposite. Tom Key, artistic director of the theater company, knew he wanted Hirsch to direct the production and tracked her down, no…

Plays dealing specifically with theater run the risk of being too self-referential, too full of “in” jokes for non-theater types to appreciate and fully savor. Fortunately, playwright Jane Martin’s gem “Anton in Show Business” takes delight in poking fun at life in the theater but never forgets that it has an audience in front of…