In 2006, the Center for Puppetry Arts premiered its now-beloved adult puppet spooky spectacular The Ghastly Dreadfuls. This year’s show, running until Halloween night, promises to be a celebration of two decades to remember for fans new and old. Director Jason Hines, also the artistic director for the Center, said the Halloween show in particular…
As a concert experience, the musical Mexodus, onstage at the Alliance Theatre until October 16, is an incredible artistic feat. The music is rousing and remarkable, every bit of it built onstage by performers looping riffs and sounds. There is terrific spectacle and immense talent involved. It feels like a concept album is emerging right…
English playwright Harold Pinter gave many people pause, on and off stage, for his work defies easy synopsis. Moments in plays like The Birthday Party are filled with tension and possible violence, but no one onstage bothers to explain why. The danger is just there, casting a shadow over everything. Labeled a “comedy of menace”…
Theatrical Outfit’s production of Fences, the Pulitzer prize-winning play by August Wilson presented in partnership with Dominion Entertainment and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, is one of the year’s best. Running through October 11, this production is superbly acted, well-paced and beautifully designed, resulting in a rich, rewarding experience. The character Troy Maxson, brilliantly played here…
Though technically classified as one of the Bard’s comedies, Measure for Measure, onstage at Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse until September 27, is a dark, morally complex work. This production leans into the unease and the ickiness of its sexual politics, and the strong performers bring out the richness and emotion in the story. It’s a weird,…
Co-Executive Producer Erica Armstrong Dunbar, who’s among the Emmy nominees at this year’s awards ceremony next week, is a department chair at Emory University. :: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Emory University’s chair of the Department of African American Studies and a National Endowment for the Humanities history professor there since 2024, heads into this weekend with…
As veteran performers who have appeared on stages across the country, including Broadway, Kristine Reese and Billy Harrigan Tighe make beautiful music together as a married couple. Dating since they attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Reese and Tighe married in 2010. But their story begins before that. “There’s an even more fun…
Carrying a torch for the show since a pandemic binge-watch, comedian and producer Brett Schultz has turned his fandom for the CBS reality show Survivor into a live improvised stage play. Survive: The Improvised Play, on stage at Out Front Theatre August 21 and August 22, features a team of improvisers creating a work on…
It is a necessity that audiences go see the fathers of invention clash in Tesla vs. Edison, the dazzling history-based show that has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts through August 23. Originally produced in 2023, the Suzi Bass Award-winning puppet show — written, designed and directed by Artistic Director Jason Hines — retells…
The Essential Theatre, which focuses solely on producing new work from Georgia writers, will present the premiere run of Helen of the West at 7 Stages from August 6 through August 23. The script — which reimagines the Greek myth of Helen of Troy in the American Old West — won Susan Swavely the 2026…
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