It’s often said that most people spend their adulthood trying to get over childhood. Youth, the main character in the roaring rock musical Passing Strange, spends his 20s running from the first 18 years of his life. Raised in a Black, middle-class family in Los Angeles — with all the the respectability to politics and…
From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, the circus was one of the most popular forms of entertainment in America. The exotic animals, freak shows and death-defying stunts drew people from all walks of life to witness something extraordinary. This is the life Jacob Jankowski (Ryan Vasquez) runs to in the world premiere…
There are very few things Jasmine Starr-Kidd doesn’t know, and if she’s in a pinch, she can always ask her artificial intelligence computer, Grace. The daughter of a middle school science teacher and a world-renowned physicist, Jasmine is ready to outsmart her parents and get them back together. When she finds a hole in the…
A Gatorade with vodka for breakfast, Diet Coke with vodka mid-morning and vodka martinis at lunch are bare necessities for Steven to get through the day. As a successful playwright and director, the pressure to be perfect is real — plus a dysfunctional relationship with his mother doesn’t help. However, when Steven’s addiction tears apart…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Broadway is in full swing. As Atlantans ready for winter travel, many will be heading to New York City for the holidays. Some will go for vacation. Others are among the thousands who migrated to Atlanta from the Big Apple over the last two years. Whatever the…
The game’s afoot in Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – #2B from the moment a mysterious door rolls in front of the curtain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved mysteries are transported to 2022. Instead of Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick and adviser John Watson playing cat and mouse with criminals and kooks in…
What happens to an activist when a movement loses its steam? How do they grapple when the world they wanted never comes to fruition? Who bears the weight of passing the baton to the next generation? Playwright Dominique Morisseau asks these pressing questions about the cost of activism and resulting trauma in her play, Sunset…
Laughter is the best medicine, but some things just aren’t funny. However, playwright Robert O’Hara certainly tries to take the most heartbreaking parts of the Black gay male experience and infuse then with humor in his wildly absurd play Bootycandy. Onstage at Actor’s Express through June 12, Bootycandy is a series of vignettes that offer…
“Dear Nettie, Things is hard here. People keep on making things worse for each other.” In the musical The Color Purple, a young girl named Celie’s only hope rests in letters to her sister Nettie. Raped and impregnated by her stepfather at 14 and sold to a man named Mister, Celie prays to God hoping…
When Mahalia Jackson started singing in Pentecostal churches in Chicago, preachers didn’t know what to make of her. The songs in her heart weren’t traditional hymns. They had a swing to them, influenced by the jazz and blues records she snuck and listened to at home in New Orleans. However, their skepticism didn’t stop her….
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