It’s one of the most quoted lyrics in the history of blues music, the Willie Dixon/Muddy Waters classic that’s been covered by a host of rock performers, most notably the Allman Brothers Band and Eric Clapton: I got a black cat bone I got a mojo too I got the John the Conqueror I’m gonna…
It’s been something of a hidden treasure for more than a decade now — the Alliance Theatre’s annual Collision Project, which brings together local teenagers with a celebrated playwright to create an original production. This year, for the second consecutive season, Atlanta playwright Pearl Cleage is part of the process. Now in its 11th year, the…
Kenny Leon is not one who needs prolonged breaks between gigs. He finishes one project and then — poof — veers off in another direction, whether it’s a TV series or a movie, a Broadway stint or work with his own Atlanta troupe, True Colors Theatre Company, where he is artistic director. He works best…
Most Cirque du Soleil productions are recognized more for their acrobatic hijinks than the accompanying musical interludes, but in the case of the new “Michael Jackson: THE IMMORTAL World Tour,” the score is just as important as the leaps and somersaults. Running June 29 through July 1 at Philips Arena, “IMMORTAL” was envisioned as a…
The heroine of the new “Musicals Suck, the Musical” isn’t exactly a generic, plucky leading lady. She is often grumpy, she smokes and she dislikes musicals. More to the point, she hates every aspect of musical theater, so much that it threatens to drive a wedge into her love life. That’s the premise of the…
When celebrated English photographer Martin Parr came to Atlanta a few years ago to shoot a piece on his vision of the South, commissioned for the High Museum of Art, filmmaker Neal Broffman followed him on his journey. As Parr clicked away almost nonstop, Broffman followed closely behind, documenting the cameraman’s interaction with his subjects. Parr’s work, titled “Up…
In Serenbe Playhouse’s new take on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” the main character’s fall down the rabbit hole is a goofy, creative one, even if there are some bumps along the way. This world premiere, playing through July 28, is a revisionist look at the Carroll classic by playwright Rachel Teagle, who crafted an original…
Jane Bishop, who worked behind the scenes with Kenny Leon, first at the Alliance Theatre and then at True Colors Theatre Company, which she helped him form, leaves a four-decade legacy of work in the Atlanta theatrical community. She began working backstage at Theatre of the Stars and was the project manager for Elton John’s “Aida”…
When the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” bowed in its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in April, it created not just a local buzz but a national one. Not many Atlanta-based premieres get mentioned in The New York Times. But few would argue that Atlanta has become a hotbed for new…
Trackside Theatre Company, the proposed new theater organized by former staffers and board members of the now-defunct Theatre in the Square in Marietta, will not be opening this year after all. Its funding proposal to Marietta City Council has been withdrawn. On April 25, Mike Russell, who was board chairman of Theatre in the Square before…
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