As a young boy in Dunwoody, Ryan White desperately wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Though that dream never panned out, what happened instead is just as good: he is now a prolific documentary filmmaker. One of his goals has been to find a space story that suited his brand of filmmaking…
Oronike Odeleye moved to Atlanta with her family at the age of 3 and — as she recalls — practically grew up with the National Black Arts Festival. At first, her parents attended, and later, she eagerly did as well. Little did she realize at the time she would eventually grow up to be the…
Looking back, the greatest gift comedy legend Joan Rivers and her husband Edgar Rosenberg gave their daughter, Melissa, was a fairly obvious one — the ability to laugh. These days, after having dealt with the emergence of Covid and the outrageousness of the world, she says she needs an occasional chuckle. Melissa Rivers will…
As Larry Fried and Theresa May were looking around for support and an incubator for plays that addressed an important theme for the two of them — environmental issues — they came up with the idea to hatch Earth Matters on Stage and the Ecodrama Playwrights Festival. That was in 2004, and the event has…
It was set for The Atlanta Opera’s 2019-20 finale, and then later that year to run alongside La Boheme. Both times, though, the company’s version of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly — about American naval officer Pinkerton who takes a 15-year-old Japanese wife, Cio-Cio-San — was postponed because of the pandemic. Now, it’s finally on, and…
“He’s the one that did Hamilton” was an expression I heard quite a few times from fellow patrons talking to each other at the opening night of City Springs Theatre Company’s In the Heights. That he would be Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose Hamilton became not just a theater blockbuster but a pop culture sensation as well,…
When the producers of the film Till reached out to Chinonye Chukwu three years ago and asked if she was interested in making the movie, she was at first reluctant. “I didn’t know what approach they’d be open to,” she says, admitting that while most people know about Emmett Till, not as many know all…
In the wake of COVID-19 and the three-day Town Hall for Racial Reckoning events from summer 2020, a lot of Atlanta area theaters look different these days. Perhaps no company has changed, however, more than the Dunwoody-based Stage Door Theatre over the last few years, not just in name but in terms of personnel. Robert…
When seeking roles, Bethany Anne Lind tends to gravitate toward work that speaks to her in some sense, or surprises or challenges her. Her new project Everybody — at the Alliance Theatre through October 2 — certainly fills the last two criteria. It also returns the actress to her theater roots. Written by Obie Award-winning, Pulitzer…
Identical twins Adamma and Adanne Ebo grew up in Atlanta, the children of Nigerian immigrants, thinking one day they’d become lawyers. While Adanne did indeed attend law school, Adamma changed courses and enrolled in UCLA to study directing. These days, the two are working together as part of their Ejime Productions and are Sundance darlings, with…
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