One of the many bitter ironies of our human-driven climate catastrophe is that plastic trash makes for beautiful puppets. That dissonance is on full and gorgeous display in HUMAN, a work by the award-winning puppet artist Nehprii Amenii now playing at the Center for Puppetry Arts through January 28. Set beneath the sea in a…
Christmas with Jerks has a holiday film plot if you ever heard one: Eve Carter (Leanna Adams), a former child star with a penchant for cocktails, is thrilled to be spending Christmas alone at her sister’s house. Imagine her displeasure when the house turns out to be occupied by professional stuntman Ace Strong (Tyler Buckingham),…
The funny thing about the beloved children’s book The Little Prince is that it’s not really a children’s book. It’s a book for grownups about childhood. Nevertheless, something about Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s charming 1943 story — of a pilot who crash-lands in the Sahara Desert and meets a curious boy visiting Earth from a far-off…
Children’s theater actors often break the fourth wall — kids love attention, after all. But it’s an uncommon children’s theater show that breaks the fourth wall and observes the pint-sized audience with suspicion. “You brought people in here?” Peter Rabbit asks his animal friends early in Into the Burrow, looking around with horror at the…
One day in the early 1990s, a young, aspiring playwright and filmmaker put everything he owned into his Hyundai, left his home in New Orleans and drove to Atlanta to make his mark on the world. “New Orleans didn’t produce Tyler Perry,” his cousin Lucky Johnson said in Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, a…
As Mae West once said, too much of a good thing can be wonderful. In Havoc Movement’s Dracula: The Failings of Men, running through October 31, that thing is blood. There is too much of it, and I can assure you, it is wonderful. If you like your spooky season served extra rare — with…
How does one recount the full measure of an unmeasurable crime? In CULLUD WATTAH, Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s reflection on the Flint water crisis, a disaster-scale tragedy is made achingly real through a human-scale story. Actor’s Express’ production, running now through October 15, does powerful justice to both script and history, illuminating the true consequences of Flint’s…
Fall is here (even if temps have not quite dropped), and with it comes the arrival of some of our favorite Atlanta film festivals. Here are four great festivals happening around the city this season, featuring a wide range of films from both global and local talents. Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival Dates: September…
Have you ever held a book so deliciously good that you almost wish you could, well, devour it? Thus forms the premise of Oliver Jeffers’ award-winning children’s book, The Incredible Book Eating Boy, adapted by Alliance Theatre into a delightful romp of a musical. Opening in a well-received premiere last summer, the show returns for…
As a play based on a novel that is based on another novel, Peter and the Starcatcher has a lot of story to tell. A whimsical prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, the play etches backstories for Barrie’s major characters, including the eponymous Peter, here envisioned as an ill-treated orphan with a deep distrust of…
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