Writer-director Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hot Wing King, onstage at the Alliance Theatre through March 5, is so damn good. Go see it. There’s more to be said than that, certainly. But that’s the main takeaway. This play is a superb achievement. It’s daring, artistically bold, relevant, hilarious and original, and it is not…
During a key moment in Toni Stone, one of Atlanta’s best plays this year, the focus of the characters shifts toward the audience, and the stadium lights on the stage turn brighter to expose us, asking us to reconsider ourselves and our roles in society. Many of the year’s works concentrated upon that, bringing light…
It shouldn’t be much of a gamble for Atlanta Lyric Theatre to stage Guys and Dolls. It’s one of the funniest and best-written musical comedies of all time. However, the production, onstage at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre in Marietta through September 4, rolls the dice and comes up snake eyes. The show lacks nuance…
The plays aren’t the thing that drives The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), onstage at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company through September 4. This very funny show succeeds entirely because of the talent and charm of its ensemble and the strength of its direction. The mission of this production, from a script written by Adam…
Since 1997, PushPush Arts has made space for artists of all disciplines to find their own voices and discover their own paths. And now the group’s leaders are working with multiple partners in College Park and the south metro city itself to create an arts cooperative with affordable housing and studio space for artists in…
The Merchant of Venice, onstage at Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse through August 14, is one of the Bard’s romantic comedies, but some of its 16th-century “laughs” no longer resonate because they’re based in anti-Semitic racism. Modern productions succeed, as this all-female one does, by addressing the problematic qualities of the show head-on and as humanely as…
Playwright Daniel Carter Brown crafted a timely, urgent work with his script The Outrage Machine, which was set for its world premiere with the Essential Theatre Play Festival in 2020. Then, the pandemic delayed his production for two years. The play opens on Friday night, and Brown is excited for audiences to finally see it….
Rigid, closed-minded members of the patriarchy might gripe and cover their ears when they watch Lizzie, the Actor’s Express production onstage at Oglethorpe University’s Conant Performing Arts Center through July 24. Screw those jokers! If they want a feel-good musical that doesn’t disturb their vanilla tastes, they can go watch Rodgers and Hammerstein. Lizzie rocks. …
Though progress has been made regarding racial representation onstage in Atlanta, efforts should continue and expand until Atlanta theater better reflects the city’s population in its shows and staffs. And plays created by writers of color, and brought to life by a diverse group of artists onstage and backstage, should become the rule at professional…
(Editor’s Note: On Wednesday, Arís Theatre announced that it was canceling this week’s remaining performances of Ulysses after some cast members tested positive for Covid.) :: Arís Theatre’s production of Ulysses, adapted from James Joyce’s doorstop of a novel, is brazen, complex and risky. Onstage at 7 Stages it is, thankfully, also fun and full of…
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