The ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan, where the drinking water of the city was contaminated with lead after government officials switched its source from Lake Huron to Flint River, haunts three generations of Black women in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Cullud Wattah, opening today at Actor’s Express and on stage through October 15. The Cooper family…
Three old friends gather at the basketball court to see who can win at the game and in life in playwright Alonzo D. Lamont’s That Serious He-Man Ball, presented by True Colors Theatre at Southwest Arts Center from September 19 to October 15. To play the old friends, director Eric J. Little assembled a cast…
Officials say the shows will go on at Shakespeare Tavern and Playhouse despite an arson attempt in the early hours of August 13 that resulted in significant water damage to the space after the sprinklers were triggered. According to a statement and photos posted by Artistic Director Jeff Watkins on the company Instagram Sunday, the…
Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning play English, running August 16 through September 17 on the Alliance Theatre Hertz Stage, tells the story of four Iranian students as they prepare to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which they hope will unlock a world of new possibilities for them. For director Shadi Ghaheri, the play…
Some Atlantans know Mitchell Anderson as the chef who owns MetroFresh at the Midtown Promenade. For others, he is more familiar as a film and TV actor and gay activist who rose to prominence in the 1990s on such shows as Doogie Howser, M.D. and Party of Five. His coming out onstage at the 1996…
With its newest production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Actor’s Express has essentially delivered a gift-wrapped wig in a box to Atlanta audiences. It’s terrific fun. Running through August 19 and starring both Niko Carleo and Christina Leidel in the title role at alternating performances, the 1998 raucous rock musical, written by John Cameron…
The Pros and Cons of Killing Your Cult Leader, a new play running July 19 through July 23 at Aurora Theatre and August 6 through August 9 at the Shakespeare Tavern, uses physical humor and fun satire to draw audiences into a difficult, important subject: how the traumas of religious oppression can affect women. According…
Christopher Moses and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden have long considered the Alliance Theatre to be their artistic home. Both have performed on its stages and worked on staff in a variety of jobs for over a decade. And now, after working as interim artistic directors since September, they will share the job permanently. The two were named…
Before it was a cultural phenomenon, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest folk art project in the world at an estimated 54 tons, began as a unique, beautiful way to remember dear friends lost before their time to a mysterious, terrifying disease that most of mainstream society didn’t speak about because gay men were the…
For Rob Shaw-Smith, writer-director of Aris Theatre’s new family musical The Legend of Finn McCool, onstage at the Academy Theatre in Hapeville from June 16-25, the project is a literal giant undertaking. Based upon an Irish legend explaining the creation of the Giant’s Causeway — a geographic natural wonder made of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns…
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