Arts Agenda: Theater – Winter 2025

Each week, ArtsATL delivers a critic’s short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one discipline in the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and culture. Every week, we’ll present a different art form.

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Through January 26

Love’s Labour’s Lost at Shakespeare Tavern. In this oddball Shakespeare comedy, the intellectual ambitions of four young men are undone by the presence of four young women. Tickets: $26-$49.

Through January 31

TheatreSports Tournament 2025 at Dad’s Garage. This fan favorite is the longest running improv at Dad’s Garage. A fast pace and loads of adrenaline! Tickets: $20-$25.

January 15-January 26

Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s Leave Your Fears Here at the Act3 Playhouse. The Southeastern premiere of this intense one-man play finds actor James Morrison recounting his son’s battle with and triumph over brain cancer. Tickets: $44 with discounts available.

January 17-January 26

Teen Spotlight: Twelfth Night the Musical at Woodstock Arts. Viola’s adventures in Illyria, disguised as a man and finding true love. This musical adaptation uses the original Shakespearean text, augmented with new music and modern lyrics. Tickets: $16-$20.

January 18-March 2

Doctor De Soto at Alliance Theatre. Fun for the young kids, this William Steig tale of whimsy comes to life through live actors, music and puppetry. Tickets: $10-$20.

January 22

BlackGround at Dad’s Garage. This all-African American comedy troupe provides a different — and very Black — take on Star Wars, Indiana Jones and other classic movies. Tickets: $14.

January 23-February 16

King of Pangea at Aurora Theatre.  In collaboration with the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, this new whimsical musical follows young Christopher Crow, who travels to the imaginary island of Pangea after the death of his mother. Tickets: $15 and up.

January 28-March 2

Rainforest Adventures at The Center for Puppetry Arts. Using Czech black, blacklight and body puppet techniques, this wild journey is full of snakes, monkeys, sloths and more. Tickets: $22.75 for nonmembers.

January 30-February 15

At the Wedding at Out Front Theatre. A co-production of Georgia College and State University, this riotous comedy follows Carlo, a woman drinking too much and talking too much at her ex-girlfriend’s wedding. Tickets: $20-$30.

February 1-16

Cry It Out at Stage Door Theatre. A dark comedy about class in America, in which two new moms and a new dad find one another amid the hard realities of new parenthood. Tickets: $28 with discounts available.

February 4-March 2

Petite Rouge at Synchronicity Theatre. Mardi Gras! Gators! Zydeco! This Cajun musical take on Little Red Riding Hood is appropriate (and fun) for all ages. Tickets: $20.

February 5-March 2

The Lehman Trilogy at Theatrical Outfit with the Breman. This hotly anticipated, Tony Award-winning play has been called “epic in every conceivable way.” Chronicling two centuries of history, the play witnesses the stunning rise and fall of a family. Tickets: $25 and up with discounts available.

February 6-23

Marie Antoinette at Actor’s Express. A co-production with Oglethorpe University Theatre, this hilarious take on one of history’s most extravagant and notorious figures follows the queen as the good times in France come to a sudden end. Tickets: $23 and up.

February 7-23

Pride and Prejudice at Woodstock Arts Theatre. The classic “will they or won’t they” story of love and hate and love and hate and love. It’s the Jane Austen novel as you’ve never seen it before. Tickets: $20-$25.

February 11-March 9

True Colors Theatre’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding at Southwest Arts Center. Step into the doings of a vibrant Harlem hair salon where West African immigrant women hold court and talk shop. Tickets: $22-$53.50.

February 13-March 16

Bust at Alliance Theatre. A groundbreaking world premiere combining suspense and the absurd. Everything changes one day when a couple witnesses their neighbor subject to an unusual police stop in playwright Zora Howard’s form-bending new play. Tickets: $25 and up.

February 20-March 2

Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s A Wrinkle in Time at the Act3 Playhouse. Follow the adventures of Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin as they tumble through the universe in the tale based on the Madeline L’Engle novel. Tickets: $29 with discounts available.

February 21-March 9

Merely Players Presents’ Our Town. Thornton Wilder’s timeless classic of small-town American life in the early 20th century. Tickets: $10-$15.

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Pairs well with…

Other events you might enjoy.

Night Circus at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking features book artists channeling performance and wonder (January 21-April 18) … Emma Chammah and Rial Rye present hands-on art in EngageART at Spruill Gallery (through February 21) … Join the Art Amok! Poetry Slam as it attempts to put Atlanta poets on the map (ongoing) … Tête-à-tête is Stokes MVMNT’s bid at athletic choreography that inspires the local community (January 23 and 24) … Jamie Barton, Matthew Lipman and Tamar Sanikidze come together at Spivey Hall in a program featuring Brahms and a world premiere from Atlanta phenom Joel Thompson (January 19).

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Next week’s Arts Agenda: Dance