At one point in True Colors’ sublime production of Jocelyn Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, which runs through March 9, two characters have this exchange: “It will all be OK.” “What if it is not?” “Then it will not be. And after that, it will be OK.” These realistic yet oddly reassuring words have been…
One of the most unforgettable cinematic images of the last year was Demi Moore furiously smearing lipstick all over her face in The Substance, the Oscar-nominated dark comedy/body horror about the extreme lengths we’re willing to go to sustain society’s impossible youth and beauty standards. That image popped into my mind like a maniacal jack-in-the-box…
Let’s imagine that you’re having a teensy bit of anxiety over an upcoming presidential election. Purely hypothetically. Perhaps your best coping strategy is to process those feelings via an over-the-top farcical take on male privilege in politics. And if that’s the case, thankfully, you are in luck. Because Synchronicity Theatre is here to deliver through…
Mothers and the complicated relationships we have with them — especially once they’re gone — are a bottomless well that writers have drunk from since the first scrawls across cave walls. In theater, many of the most famous examples of motherhood tend to go the route of Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie: an opportunity for the…
Tituss Burgess and Azie Dungey share how they worked on the world premiere musical adaptation of a beloved ’90s film — and made some modern adjustments. The line between miracles and magic can be as thin as a stage curtain rising from the floor. Just ask Tituss Burgess, the accomplished actor and singer, who gets…
It’s hard to overstate how many new takes on Hamlet there have been. But although Sir Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Ethan Hawke and David Tennant all gave it the ol’ college try — with a special nod to Tom Stoppard’s breezy spinoff Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead — no version has ever felt as transfixing…
Screenwriter and former Actor’s Express intern Steve Yockey tells Alexis Hauk in this exclusive interview that writing plays (along with cheesy scrambled eggs) hold the key to his heart. :: When Mercury opens at Actor’s Express on April 6, it will mark one of many homecomings for Atlanta native Steve Yockey. Long before the celebrated…
The battle for the perfect sandwich is as subjective and contentious as almost any debate — the banh mi, the gyro, the Reuben — we’ve all got our preference. But in the world of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s, the ingredients of the sandwich and the infinite possibilities therein are a perfect delivery system to the nourishment…
There’s a time-honored tradition in story craft of raising the stakes on an already tense situation by plopping your protagonists on a boat in the middle of risky waters. Anything Goes. Titanic. The Mosquito Coast. JAWS. The Shark Is Broken, last year’s Broadway show about the making of JAWS. And Moby Dick – the JAWS…
“There’s been so much death lately,” is a simple but important line early on in a.k. payne’s 2024 Alliance/Kendeda award winning play, Furlough’s Paradise. The Pittsburgh-rooted playwright’s piece, which runs at the Alliance through March 3, focuses on two family members grappling with grief from wildly different places in life. But it also reflects a…
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