It’s a funny thing walking into the theater for the first time in seven months. Entering Synchronicity Theatre to see RIP by Danielle Deadwyler felt like riding a bike or putting on a glove — with some minor changes. Synchronicity is doing temperature checks at the door and walking patrons in one-by-one to choose seats,…
When you walk into Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Buckhead, look immediately to the right and you’ll see a Steve Schapiro photograph taken in 1968. It shows a woman lying in bed reading a newspaper. “THE WORST IS YET TO COME,” the headline shouts, words that feel foreboding then and now. But if the past…
In mid-March, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared a public health emergency in response to Covid-19 and, a week later, shut down all nonessential businesses, including live performance venues. Artists did what they do in times like these, which is to pour beauty into the world. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater did an excerpt from Revelations…
The Black Lives Matter movement continues to affect major cities as institutions large and small examine their racial policies and practices. Some of the nation’s most popular entities — from the NFL to Walmart — have announced changes, and American theater is not exempt from self-reflection. The We See You White American Theatre movement has…
Editor’s note: Kelundra Smith is an Atlanta-based arts journalist and theater critic who’s written extensively for ArtsATL and has been published in American Theatre magazine, The Atlanta Journal–Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, The New York Times and Oxford American magazine, among other publications. She was formerly ArtsATL‘s theater editor and wrote this piece at our request. :: THE…
Note: The Actor’s Express run of “The Brothers Size” opened March 14 and was postponed the next day due to coronavirus concerns. The company hopes to resume performances in mid-May. Before that decision was made, audiences were limited to 100 people or less. Our critic saw it with about 40 others. We’re publishing our review…
It’s hard to find a corner that Gloria and Emilio Estefan haven’t touched if you’re driving the streets of Miami. From restaurants and resorts to a new Facebook talk series, the Latin power couple has built an empire that extends far beyond music. It was the rhythm they found in their humble Little Havana beginnings,…
“And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.” — William Shakespeare, Richard III :: Politics have always made strange bedfellows, and in the 15th century, King Richard III wrote the playbook on how to manipulate people for…
In 2015, when comedian Steve Harvey announced the wrong name at the Miss Universe pageant, people around the world were outraged. For citizens in developing countries, a pageant win brings cultural validation and can bring much needed resources to communities. In the fictional world of School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play, (onstage through…
The Charles Fuller whodunit A Soldier’s Play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in its 1981–82 off-Broadway run. This week, it finally reaches Broadway, with sometime-Atlantan Kenny Leon directing and Atlanta actor Rob Demery making his Broadway debut. The murder mystery, set at an Army installation in Louisiana during World War II, explores the double…
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