When a teenage Jessi Kirtley forgot her song lyrics in front of a panel of judges, she thought she had completely blown her chances at winning an award. “I was so nervous! I didn’t remember any of the words to ‘Practically Perfect’ from Mary Poppins, [a role] I had just played,” Kirtley says. Despite the…
The choice for a play to have an all-female cast is hardly unusual, but when the play is titled The Rocket Men, it captures attention. And playwright Crystal Skillman designed it that way. “From the start, I want the audience to be confronted with the fact that those actors don’t look anything like the [male]…
City Springs Theatre Company’s eighth season is officially underway with the recent opening of The Producers: A Mel Brooks Musical, on stage through September 21. With music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, the flashy musical is as absurd as it is irreverent. Based on the 1967 movie of…
For Andrew Durand, the community stage led to Broadway. :: If you were a theater kid in Roswell in the 1990s, you knew Roswell Village Playhouse. Tucked in the back of a shopping center on the corner of Highway 9 and Highway 92, it presented full seasons of plays for children and adults with volunteer…
When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he shot for the moon — and even looked up its phases. :: What do you get when you cross a historian with a comic artist? Maybe a clever punchline but definitely an intriguing, genre-crossing work…
In Sandy Springs, there is a mammoth of a musical playing. Billed as City Springs Theatre’s “most ambitious production ever,” the hype around Ragtime has proven to be more than mere marketing language. The Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens calls for a large ensemble and numerous featured characters with their own…
Early members of Whole World Improv Theatre look back on three decades of humor — as well as the venues and furniture that tested their resolve. :: Back in the 1990s, young members of Whole World Improv Theatre could be seen on the corner of 10th and Piedmont, holding boots and excitedly collecting money from…
Atlanta native Chapel Oaks shares her personal takes on juggling high school and acting and why Atlanta was better than Los Angeles to start her on-screen career. :: Not every kid who aspires to pursue a TV career in acting has opportunities in their own backyard. But given the booming film and TV industry in…
Those in the United Kingdom have plentiful opportunities this holiday season to see a traditional show known as a Christmas panto. A quick Google search reveals that London alone has a vast array of pantos throughout the city, and, across the British Isles and Ireland, the art form is an essential part of seasonal entertainment….
Avid theater fans may remember actor Greg Kamp, who, among other things, starred as Jack Kelly in Aurora Theatre and Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s Newsies in 2018 to glowing reviews, including one from ArtsATL editor-at-large Jim Farmer. Though his career has taken him away from the South, Kamp’s Atlanta roots were planted years ago, training in…
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