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Theater Best Bets, June 6–9: Atlanta Fringe Festival Edition

Kelundra SmithJune 6, 2019

The Atlanta Fringe Festival is back for a sixth year and taking over venues all across the city this week. This celebration of independent theater artists inclu...

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7 Stages’ Human: A Citizen’s Encounter tells the stories of Atlanta’s unseen

Liz DooleyMay 7, 2019

Little Five Points' quirkiest theater company, 7 Stages, is marking the end of its 40th season with what artistic director Heidi S. Howard describes as "a party...

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Topher Payne updates his play Angry Fags for the Trump era

Kathy JanichApril 3, 2019

“After Trump.” Those two words draw the line between 7 Stages’ two world premieres of Atlanta playwright Topher Payne’s tragicomic Angry Fags. When it deb...

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Atlanta Film Festival highlights Georgia’s diverse, accomplished filmmaking

Steve MurrayApril 3, 2019

For an event with such longevity, the Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), now in its 43rd year, has chugged along at a slow-but-steady, perhaps even boring pace for ...

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Theater Best Bets, February 21–24

Kelundra SmithFebruary 21, 2019

Every Thursday, our editors and guest writers give you their top six picks for the weekend's best shows. Be sure to check out our metro Atlanta theater map to s...

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Paper Doll Militia’s Warped aims to defy space and time at 7 Stages

Susan AngelineFebruary 18, 2019

Out of the box, experimental and fiercely weird is the theme of 7 Stages' 40th season. Paper Doll Militia’s Warped promises to fulfill that vision during its wo...

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With Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Core Dance goes deeper, higher at 7 Stages

Cynthia Bond PerryFebruary 7, 2019

Some experiences in the theater resonate so deeply that it’s best to leave writing about them to the poets. Such was the experience Niv Sheinfeld and Oren La...

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Full Radius spins toward tipping point with Gone Too Far This Time

Sydney BurrowsFebruary 4, 2019

On March 28, 1941, Virginia Woolf, a literary genius and pioneer of stream-of-consciousness writing, filled her pockets with rocks and committed suicide by walk...

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“Curious Holiday Encounters” invites audiences to choose their own Yuletide adventure at 7 Stages

Curt HolmanDecember 6, 2018

7 Stages is the last place you’d expect to see Ebenezer Scrooge, the Nutcracker Prince or other Christmas mainstays of the performing arts. The Little Five Poin...

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Dancers Corian Ellisor and Alex Abarca explore identity, community and perseverance in “My People”

Andrew AlexanderNovember 6, 2018

The subject of identity has always taken center stage in the works of Atlanta-based dance artists Corian Ellisor and Alex Abarca. My People, which runs November...

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