In 2015, when Joe Alterman was still a fledgling jazz pianist fresh out of the graduate program at New York University, he went to a concert by New Orleans piano legend Allen Toussaint. During the show, Toussaint asked how many pianists were in the audience. Alterman was one of five people who raised their hand,…
When the hands of Ike Stubblefield hovered above the keyboards of his Hammond B-3 organ, they were like divining rods in search of water. That’s how trumpet player Joey “Papa J.” Sommerville describes it. Ike played by ear and his ears were nearly perfect. If someone kicked off a song he didn’t know, Ike would…
Earlier this spring, Tomer Zvulun walked into an empty Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre for a film session. It was the first time he’d been inside the building since the pandemic shut down The Atlanta Opera’s production of Porgy and Bess in the middle of its run in March 2020. Zvulun, the opera’s general and…
Core Dance will return to the stage and a live audience with three performances of a new work called No Time to Lose this weekend at the B Complex. Audiences will be limited to 10 people for each performance; Friday’s show will be livestreamed at 8 p.m. No Time to Lose was created during a…
When Doug Shipman announced his plan to run for Atlanta City Council president a week ago, his life leapt into hyperdrive after several months of quiet sabbatical that followed his departure as leader of the Woodruff Arts Center. “It’s been hectic,” Shipman says. “I’ve had a lot of people reaching out to me wanting to…
On March 7, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic still seemed a faintly distant, remote threat. As I often did on weekend evenings, I went to see a performance — Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre’s Modern Myths at the Kennesaw State University Dance Theatre. There was a full house of people eager to see the production. Before the…
Lara Smith, the managing director of Dad’s Garage Theatre Company since 2012 and one of Atlanta’s most visible arts leaders, will leave the job later this year. The theater has launched a search for a new managing director. Longtime ensemble member Tim Stoltenberg, who moved back to Atlanta for the job, will remain as interim…
The Atlanta Opera will return home when it raises up its “Big Tent” series for two iconic operas in April in the parking lot of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre for a pandemic-shortened spring season. The opera has not performed inside its Cobb Energy home since last March, when the pandemic shut down the…
Kennesaw State University has received a $5 million gift for its School of Music from the Bobbie Bailey Foundation. This is the largest single donation to the College of the Arts in its history and will be devoted in full to student scholarships. The university has now received a total of more than $11 million…
The COVID-19 pandemic rolled into 2020 as a silent tsunami that hit in mid-March with devastating force and impact. One weekend there was a nervous normalcy across the city; the next, every stage and theater and gallery was dark. And they would largely stay that way for the rest of the year and into 2021….
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