I first heard the song “If I Could Only Fly” on the jukebox at a little joint in Carrollton while I was in college. A friend had promised to play me the best cry-in-your-beer country song ever recorded, a very tall order. The song started with the sad strum of an acoustic guitar and then…
Atlanta actress Park Krausen takes on one of theater’s most iconic female roles, Irina Arkadina in Chekhov’s classic The Seagull, which opens tonight at Serenbe Playhouse. Krausen is one of Atlanta’s busiest theater artists. Arkadina by night, she’ll spend her days this month as assistant director for the upcoming production of Waiting For Godot at 7 Stages,…
Emily Saliers and Amy Ray met in elementary school in Decatur, began to sing together in high school and had their first public performance in front of their English class. Four decades later, as the Indigo Girls, they are one of the most popular folk music duos ever and return home Thursday to perform at…
It was a late night in the early ’80s, and a teenaged Michelle Malone was riding in a car going up Piedmont Avenue near Lindbergh Drive. Traffic began to come to a crawl as they approached a shopping center anchored by a music room called the Harvest Moon Saloon. “We got closer and all these…
The $661.4 million budget unanimously passed by the City Council on Monday will more than double the city’s commitment to public funding for arts and cultural groups. The original budget proposal — the first budget under new Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms — called for the city to maintain its current level of arts funding at…
My heart must have skipped a beat when I saw Nadia Mara turn and start to approach me. I knew who she was — one of Atlanta Ballet’s featured dancers — and I also knew why she was walking toward me.
This time last year, as five star Atlanta Ballet dancers were in the process of forming Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, director John Welker was asked how he would measure success. “We’ll be successful if we’re still around in a year,” he replied with a nervous laugh. A year later, with sold out (and critically lauded)…
The Alliance Theatre will celebrate its 50th season with a newly renovated theater space and five world premieres. The theater announced its 2018–19 season today. After a year of performing on the road at various venues around the city while its Coca-Cola stage space was undergoing a $22 million upgrade, the Alliance will return home with…
Michelle Malone laughs as she recounts a moment from childhood. She was three years old, sitting in the back seat of her parents’ Volkswagen and singing along loudly to the radio. Except she was singing the wrong words. “My mom tried to correct me and I told her I could sing it any way I…
Atlanta Ballet’s 2018–19 season will feature four world premieres, including a new version of Nutcracker and pieces by choreographers Liam Scarlett and Ricardo Amarante. The company also announced today that it will add 10 new dancers for its main company and the Atlanta Ballet 2 training ensemble over the next three years. The season —…
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