When Beautiful: The Carole King Musical was new to Broadway in 2014, Aurora Theatre co-founder and artistic director Ann-Carol Pence knew she had to get her hands on the rights to the jukebox musical as soon as they were available. Centered on the singer/songwriter of the 1960s and ’70s known for hits like “Will You…
Broadway performers Kristine Reese and Billy Tighe know all too well that making a living as an actor takes more than just talent. Now calling metro Atlanta home, the married couple has honed what they learned from years of auditioning and performing at the Broadway level into a curriculum in the City Springs Theatre Conservatory,…
Stepping into a leading role on Broadway is a dream come true for any performer. But as Georgia native McKenzie Kurtz descends to the Wicked stage in Glinda’s iconic bubble night after night, she is fulfilling a truly personal dream. From her seat at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway years ago when she saw the…
When Mother of God opens today at the Southwest Arts Center, audiences will get the chance to see a brand-new, homegrown musical in its first full-scale production. From local writers Christian Magby (music and lyrics) and Christian Albright (book and lyrics), the musical, directed by Jade Lambert-Smith, depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus. The piece…
Atlanta’s home for all things puppet-related brings back an annual Halloween tradition, as Center for Puppetry Arts presents The Ghastly Dreadfuls. Created by the Center’s Artistic Director Jon Ludwig and Resident Puppet Builder Jason Hines, the mixed-media show runs through October 29. The show consists of 17 Halloween-themed vignettes, some using traditional marionette puppetry, others…
When Mary Poppins was on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, it was a high-flying extravaganza. The umbrella-toting title character went rising, rising, rising from the stage, drifting out over the audience until she was able to get eye-to-eye with ticketholders in the upper balcony. In 2006, the Washington Post reviewer called Mary-taking-wing “the most bewitching thing…
When the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre begins streaming its production of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party this weekend, audiences will get to see the newest phase in the company’s evolving vision for bringing musicals to Atlanta. Filmed in early May for an on-demand run Friday through Sunday, the production uses a multi-camera approach, more cinematic than theatrical….
Craig A. Meyer’s path as a triple-threat performer has taken him down many different roads — from Disney to Broadway, and a lot of points in between — but he never imagined he would end up as an Elton John tribute artist. Now 17 years after moving to Atlanta, his concert, Remember When Rock Was…
When Omar Lopez-Cepero takes the stage as the villain next week in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Fox Theatre, he will be stepping onto the historic Atlanta showplace’s stage for the first time. And it’s been a long time coming. The actor says he has attended many shows at the Fox, having grown up around…
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