The Atlanta theater community’s biggest revival of the year won’t be just a favorite old play or a cherished musical. Instead, it will be the planned resurrection of a long-beloved theater itself. The newly formed Georgia Classic Theatre, which held an inaugural fundraiser May 22 at Le Fais Do-Do in Forest Park, seeks to revive…
With a massive, magnificent staging at Lawrenceville Arts Center until June 21, Aurora Theatre’s production of writer Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights reaches, indeed, great heights. It’s a grand spectacle directed and choreographed by Ricardo Aponte, featuring performances full of joy, energy and personality. Miranda’s music is incredible, performed live by an orchestra directed by…
The 2026 Atlanta Fringe Festival will return for its 14th year from May 27 to June 7, and many participants from past Fringe shows are happy to be returning to its stages. Among the 49 scheduled shows chosen by lottery from a record 150 applicants and two shows for Kids Fringe, many local and touring…
Emma, a co-production of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company and Belle Esprit Theatre Collective running until May 31 at the Shakespeare Tavern, is a delightful, must-see take on Jane Austen’s romantic comedy novel. Grab your girlfriends, gather up your bonnets if you’re so inclined and prepare to have a blast. This production of Atlanta playwright Claire…
Performers Kate Donadio MacQueen and Suehyla El-Attar Young, who played doomed lovers in playwright Steve Yockey’s Mercury at Actor’s Express, will take another shot at romance on that stage from April 9 to May 3 when the two appear as new characters in the playwright’s Venus. Having performed the developing play at Theatrical Outfit last…
There is such madcap energy, grand performances and inspired physical comedy in the new production of Much Ado About Nothing, onstage at Shakespeare Tavern through April 4. Featuring two lead performers at the top of their game, this wild, silly romantic comedy deserves to be seen. Tiffany Porter and Justin Walker spar as Beatrice and…
Dating for nearly 13 years and married since 2016, writer-performers Galen Crawley and Jacob York more than love one another. They’re also huge fans of each other’s art. “I respect him as an artist so much and loved him as an artist before we even started dating,” Crawley said. “It’s so easy to be into…
Prisontown, a one-man show written and performed by Lee Osorio, is a stunning, timely and deeply affecting autobiographical work. Staged until April as part of Out of Hand’s 2026 Shows in Homes series, Prisontown explores Osorio’s hometown of Lumpkin, Georgia, and the Stewart Detention Center, the massive immigration detention center located there. Osorio is one…
Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2026, the U.S. chapter of Union Internationale de la Marionette, housed at the Center for Puppetry Arts, is an organization devoted to linking puppeteers nationally and internationally. The international organization of UNIMA has been around since 1929, formed in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to promote community among artists who find their way…
Bleeding Hearts, the world-premiere production at Theatrical Outfit from Atlanta-raised playwright Steve Yockey, running through February 22, is a strange, often hilarious farce about the class divides in modern America. Sometimes all we have left to do is laugh in the face of our own destruction. Anchored by showcase performances from Veronika Duerr and Tess…
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