“There’s only the mission, the moment, the money” for Marie Baker, a gun-toting robber/vixen who’s wreaking havoc in 1930s Miami. On the run from her abusive husband, Baker stumbles into Lawrence and Kat Walker’s popular bar. The hot spot soon becomes the meeting place for her gang of misfit robbers — Jaye, Cesario and Sam…
Everyone has a Cinderella. Whether it’s the 1950 Disney animated version, 1997’s made-for-TV live action version starring singers Brandy and Whitney Houston or the 2021 Amazon movie musical, the story of a poor girl who gets chosen by prince charming has withstood the test of time. Based on the story penned by a pair of academics…
Lurie and June Walker, a young African American couple, have moved into a fixer-upper in a mostly White suburb. They hope this house will be fresh start after losing a baby a year ago. One day, a precocious little White girl named Beatrice befriends June, and the two bond over glasses of milk, homemade jam…
Picture it: Atlanta, 2021. A beloved ’80s sitcom meets a naughty sketch comedy show performed by drag queens. That’s the closest way to describe Out Front Theatre’s production, The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes — Holiday Edition, onstage through December 19. The show is billed as an original take on what a Christmas with Dorothy,…
Fans of the early 2000s sitcom That ‘70s Show might recall that much of the series was set in the half-finished basement of the Forman home. It is here where teenage characters fell in and out of love and trouble. Watching those actors have fun inspired Willie E. Jones III, the new artistic director at…
“Does it always have to be about race?” In the Alliance Theatre production of Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments, in the Hertz Theatre through Oct. 31, the answer is a resounding yes. The production consists of seven short plays written by Nathan James, Nathan Yungerberg, Idris Goodwin, Nambi E. Kelley, NSangou Njikam, Dennis Allen…
The ’80s are back, or perhaps they never went away. We see it in the return of acid wash jeans, heavy blue eye shadow and neon-colored Spandex. We hear it in the way that artists are sampling the music of their parents’ youth — listen for Bobby Womack’s “If You Think You’re Lonely Now” in…
When Cydnei Prather was a SCAD theater major it didn’t take her long to notice how few substantive roles for Black students there were. She recalls being the only Black actor in a production her freshman year. The director asked her to play her character in a more stereotypically “Black way.” She knew that wasn’t…
Addae Moon is passionate about bringing Atlanta stories to stages across the country and, as Theatrical Outfit’s new associate artistic director, he plans to do exactly that. A playwright, dramaturg and educator, Moon is overseeing new-play development and community partnerships for the downtown company. He hopes to deepen the theater’s relationships with downtown communities and…
Every summer as a child, Charlayne Woodard traveled with her mother and sister from New York to Garden City, Georgia, to see her mother’s family. The highlight was always playing outside with her mother’s youngest sister, Aunt Neat. She always saw Neat, who suffered brain damage as a baby, as more of a peer. In…
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