As the closing credits of the film Denial came to a sudden halt and the house lights went up at the Tara Theatre Saturday night, the near-capacity crowd burst into applause as Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt dashed down the aisle.
Project Love ATL returns for its second annual benefit performance Monday night at Park Tavern, gathering together some of Atlanta’s premier dancers, musicians, actors and spoken word artists. Organized by Atlanta Ballet company dancer Alessa Rogers, Project Love ATL made its debut last October with a wide variety of artists and a silent auction. Last…
The sound of the Boston-based band cordis is aptly described as “Stravinksy meets Sigur Rós” and the group attracts an eclectic fan base that ranges from rock fans in their twenties to chamber music fans in their seventies. Band leader and songwriter Richard Grimes plays an electric cimbalom, an obscure instrument from the dulcimer family,…
Choreographer/dancer MaryGrace Phillips is one of the rising stars in Atlanta’s burgeoning independent dance scene. Now a resident artist at The Lucky Penny’s Work Room founded by Blake Beckham and Malina Rodriguez, Phillips received the 2015 Emerging Artist Award from the City of Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs. She is also a 2016 Hambidge fellow, and…
By most measures, Seattle photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis was a failure. His photography business floundered, then went under. His wife divorced him, leading to his later arrest for failure to pay seven years of alimony. He died penniless and largely unrecognized in 1952 at the age of 84, having devoted the prime of his life…
Atlanta blues rocker Tinsley Ellis has a hot new album, Red Clay Soul, that debuted at No. 1 on Living Blues magazine’s radio chart in June and he performs Friday night at the Red Clay Music Foundry in Duluth. Ellis is a longtime Atlanta fixture who played the blues before playing the blues was cool, and was…
The Out On Film Festival will open its 29th year with a screening of Strike a Pose, a documentary about seven young male dancers who worked with Madonna on her controversial 1990 Blond Ambition tour. The festival, which runs from September 29 through October 6 at Landmark’s Midtown Art Cinema, will include more than 110…
An original comedy/thriller conceived by Dad’s Garage is one of 63 projects selected for a national competition that will result in at least one development deal with a network or television studio. Hart of America is set in a state park and has all the elements of a Dad’s Garage absurdist piece, from teen sex…
Just two years ago, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra declared itself in such dire financial straits that it locked out its musicians for nine weeks, delayed the opening of the season and said the number of ASO musicians had to be cut to 76. And then the orchestra’s president resigned under fire from the people he was hired to…
Actor Anthony Rapp, star of both the film and stage versions of Rent, will do a free public question-and-answer session Thursday at noon at the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage. Rapp’s appearance coincides with his starring role in the touring version of If/Then, which runs at the Fox Theatre August 9-14. The actor began his film career…
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