Less than four weeks after Theatre in the Square’s board of directors opted to close the 30-year-old Marietta playhouse in March, board members and staffers from the defunct company began to lay the groundwork to open a new theater in the same location — without Square’s founder and producing director, Palmer Wells. Wells, who has…
“Rua | Wülf,” a surreal version of the classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood,” is anything but traditional theater. Presented by new kids on the block Saïah, the production has it share of pros and cons. It’s an ambitious, though elementally flawed, project by Saïah, a theatrical company whose two founders formerly were part of the acclaimed Collective…
When Marietta’s Theatre in the Square sent out a public appeal last year to raise money to keep it alive, most people in the local arts community assumed it would be able to do so. After all, Georgia Shakespeare and Actor’s Express launched similar campaigns around the same time, and they were able to raise…
As Titanic-mania continues on the 100th anniversary of the ship’s ill-fated voyage, Fabrefaction Theatre Company is capitalizing on the craze by staging the Tony Award-winning musical “Titanic.” A huge cast made up of all ages is game, but this musical is not one for the ages. Running at Fabrefaction through April 29, “Titanic” is an…
How rocker John Mellencamp and horror writer Stephen King came together to work on their pet project, “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” is an engaging tale in itself. But their highly anticipated Southern Gothic musical has finally opened, after 13 years in the works, at the Alliance Theatre. It has moments of jagged brilliance, and some superb…
Although he’s written movies and books, David Mamet is probably known best for his plays, most notably the scalding “Glengarry Glen Ross.” His more comic “Speed-the-Plow” has just opened at Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre, one of Atlanta’s newer, bolder companies. It’s running through April 29. A satire on Hollywood, “Speed-the-Plow” takes place mostly in the office…
Where “The Night of the Iguana” sits exactly in the career of Tennessee Williams is up for debate. Some call it a masterwork; others consider it a half-rung or so below the playwright’s acknowledged classics. It’s certainly a personal play for Williams, who was dealing with alcoholism and depression while writing it. In any case, Janice…
In tackling Bernard Slade’s bittersweet “Same Time, Next Year,” Stage Door Players does something not easy to do — bring life to a decades-old play that can feel dated and familiar in less responsible hands. Slade’s comedy, written in 1975, is about a love affair stretched out over more than 25 years. We first meet George (Bryan…
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