Strong ensembles shined on stages throughout the city in 2023, with many of the year’s best works in theater featuring stages crowded in ways impossible at the height of the pandemic. Sitting at shows like Horizon Theatre’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Theatrical Outfit’s The Humans or Water for Elephants at the…
DANCE The Adinkra Project will perform for one night only this weekend at the Windmill Arts Center. Artistic Director N.K. Condua, a Morehouse graduate, named the company after a Ghanaian alphabet; he’s the American born son of Ghanaian parents. For this concert, titled Artistic Excellence, he chose some of his favorite works by other choreographers and will also present…
Providing legendary actor Tom Key with a holiday showcase to show how he uniquely warms an audience, Theatrical Outfit’s A Christmas Story, onstage through December 24, is a charming, cozy confection. The Philip Grecian-scripted play adaptation of the 1983 film mixes the familiar joys of the movie with comforts that Atlanta audiences specifically have come…
No matter what the weather is like in the coming weeks, audiences attending White Christmas: The Musical at City Springs Theatre can expect snow. “It will snow onstage — it will definitely snow!” said director-choreographer Sara Edwards in a recent interview. “We’ve had many conversations about what kind of snow we will use and the…
Out Front Theatre’s production of SnowGirls: The Musical, a holiday parody of the notorious 1995 erotic thriller film Showgirls, onstage from December 7 through December 17, required its director, cast and crew to do a surprising amount of research. In addition to watching the film over and over to make sure the tale of aspiring…
A visually dazzling, inventively staged production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s tragedy Blood Wedding, performed by a mix of 16 female and nonbinary Emory University students and professional actors, runs until November 19 at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater on campus. The script, translated by the poet Langston Hughes and adapted by Melia Bensussen, addresses how…
Returning to an Atlanta stage for the first time since its stellar 2016 debut at the Alliance, Out Front Theatre’s production of The Prom generates big-time joy with its zany comedy and great music. The cast of the show, running through November 11 at Out Front, is its greatest asset, though the material by Chad…
Georgia Ensemble Theatre will introduce itself to its new Marietta audience with abundant tension and chills on Halloween weekend, opening its first season at Jennie T. Anderson Theatre with the claustrophobic thriller Wait Until Dark. The Frederick Knott play about a blind woman terrorized in a basement apartment by home invaders seeking smuggled diamonds, adapted…
The Queen Mab Players, a small theater troupe associated with RoleCall Theater, attempts to stir up a little Shakespearean magic with its bare-bones, black box production of The Tempest, onstage at Limelight Theater through November 5. The performers are committed, with most of the cast taking on dual roles in the play, and it is…
The 2023 Suzi Bass Award nominations, recognizing achievements in Atlanta professional theater, were announced Sunday, with the Alliance Theatre’s Broadway-bound Water for Elephants receiving the most nominations for a musical and Prayer for the French Republic at Actor’s Express as the most recognized play. Award judges also notably celebrated Guys and Dolls and Next to…
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