As a concert experience, the musical Mexodus, onstage at the Alliance Theatre until October 16, is an incredible artistic feat. The music is rousing and remarkable, every bit of it built onstage by performers looping riffs and sounds. There is terrific spectacle and immense talent involved. It feels like a concept album is emerging right…
English playwright Harold Pinter gave many people pause, on and off stage, for his work defies easy synopsis. Moments in plays like The Birthday Party are filled with tension and possible violence, but no one onstage bothers to explain why. The danger is just there, casting a shadow over everything. Labeled a “comedy of menace”…
As veteran performers who have appeared on stages across the country, including Broadway, Kristine Reese and Billy Harrigan Tighe make beautiful music together as a married couple. Dating since they attended the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Reese and Tighe married in 2010. But their story begins before that. “There’s an even more fun…
Carrying a torch for the show since a pandemic binge-watch, comedian and producer Brett Schultz has turned his fandom for the CBS reality show Survivor into a live improvised stage play. Survive: The Improvised Play, on stage at Out Front Theatre August 21 and August 22, features a team of improvisers creating a work on…
It is a necessity that audiences go see the fathers of invention clash in Tesla vs. Edison, the dazzling history-based show that has returned to the Center for Puppetry Arts through August 23. Originally produced in 2023, the Suzi Bass Award-winning puppet show — written, designed and directed by Artistic Director Jason Hines — retells…
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…
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