“There’s been so much death lately,” is a simple but important line early on in a.k. payne’s 2024 Alliance/Kendeda award winning play, Furlough’s Paradise. The Pittsburgh-rooted playwright’s piece, which runs at the Alliance through March 3, focuses on two family members grappling with grief from wildly different places in life. But it also reflects a…
Strong ensembles shined on stages throughout the city in 2023, with many of the year’s best works in theater featuring stages crowded in ways impossible at the height of the pandemic. Sitting at shows like Horizon Theatre’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Theatrical Outfit’s The Humans or Water for Elephants at the…
“Leo Tolstoy: He’s a fizzy, dizzy good time!” That’s what one imagines a review of the verbose Russian author’s War and Peace might have read if critics of the late 19th century had only had Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 — the electropop musical adaptation of just 70 pages of Tolstoy’s sweeping tome — to…
Mariah the Scientist — ‘From a Woman’ The latest from Mariah Amani Buckles, aka Mariah the Scientist, is a complementary track with boyfriend Young Thug, referred to in her video’s opening dialogue simply as Jeff, short for Jeffery Lamar Williams. Thug’s response video, “From a Man,” is one of several tracks the rapper/singer has released…
Home, I’m Darling, which runs at Synchronicity Theatre through October 29, opens with a scene familiar to anyone who’s watched 1950s domestic sitcoms like Leave It to Beaver or Father Knows Best. Over breakfast, we meet Judy (Bethany Anne Lind) and Johnny (Marcus Hopkins-Turner). Judy’s dress is impeccable as she glides around the kitchen preparing breakfast for her husband. She…
This past weekend, as my fellow audience members and I filed out of Theatrical Outfit’s fiery, funny and cracklingly clever production of the 2008 musical Passing Strange, on stage through October 22, I found myself wondering if perhaps there’s an answer to climate change after all. That is, if only we could harness and synthesize the…
Baby Tate — ‘Jersey’ Heartbreak isn’t necessarily what we’re used to hearing from Baby Tate, whose confident lyrics usually convey a kind of invulnerability to the slings and arrows of life and love and an unwillingness to suffer fools. But with her latest single, “Jersey,” we find her lost amid the crowd, feeling sad over someone…
In rock ‘n’ roll, there are all kinds of ways to get high. For Atlanta rock legend James Hall, who started out in his late teens/early 20s with the goth-y, punk-y alternative group Mary My Hope in the late 1980s and never looked back, those euphoric moments have shifted over time. “My mom will verify…
Kibi James — ‘Bender’ Dream-pop triumvirate Kibi James gives us a surreal and entertaining spin on the wild partying of youth via its new single from the band’s first full-length album, delusions, which dropped on August 25. As the three friends and musicians — Mari on guitar and keys, MJ Corless on bass and Pomi Abebe…
Kid Fears | ‘Say’ Playing in front of a sea of kudzu, Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Rose Ewing serves up traces of The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan on this track from her band’s new album Undying Love, which dropped on July 28. In her life outside the musical group, Ewing works as a horticulturist and gardener, which is evident…
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