Curt Holman Archives

Review: City Springs’ “Elf: The Musical” gives inspired role for Shuler Hensley in pale shadow of popular film

Curt HolmanDecember 12, 2018

Few ideas seem as inspired as casting Shuler Hensley as the lead in Elf: The Musical at City Springs Theatre. It’s the first holiday show of the company’s inaug...

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High Museum teams up with Film Love to showcase Kusama films

Curt HolmanDecember 11, 2018

For almost 16 years, Film Love curator Andy Ditzler has worked to preserve an adoration of film through an increasingly digital age. “I wanted to access film...

Art+Design - PreviewsFilm - Top FeaturesFilm+TV

“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...

Theater

Review: Theatrical Outfit’s “Miss Bennet” brings holiday cheer to Jane Austen sequel

Curt HolmanNovember 28, 2018

Theatrical Outfit’s holiday comedy Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley has a popular subtitle. The 2011 novel Christmas at Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Holi...

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Minka Wiltz’s one-woman show “Shaking the Wind” raises the roof at local homes

Curt HolmanNovember 15, 2018

Out of Hand Theater’s Shaking the Wind begins with an unusual curtain speech. “We’ve just locked the door, and my husband is monitoring the phone, so there will...

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Q&A: Atlanta writer Anya Martin on her debut horror collection “Sleeping with the Monster”

Curt HolmanNovember 8, 2018

Atlanta author and journalist Anya Martin’s debut collection, Sleeping with the Monster, features nine short stories, two novellas and a one-act play. Looking f...

BooksBooks - In Conversation

Review: 7 Stages still “Waiting for Godot” with familiar faces in vibrant new version

Curt HolmanOctober 5, 2018

With his tragic comedy Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett makes the audience almost painfully aware of the passage of time. During one particularly patience-tryi...

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SCAD AnimationFest panel wrestles with dominance of white males in animation jobs

Curt HolmanOctober 1, 2018

Ashley Kohler is president and executive producer of Awesome Inc., an Atlanta-based animation and design studio that has worked with Cartoon Network, Adult Swim...

Film - Top FeaturesFilm+TV

Review: “Dark Crystal” exhibition shows artifacts used to create an imaginary world on film

Curt HolmanSeptember 5, 2018

Around the turn of the 21st century, cinema entered what we might call the CGI age. Computer-generated visuals began rendering otherworldly creatures and landsc...

Art+Design

Review: Actor’s Express makes a relevant riff on a feminist classic with “A Doll’s House, Part 2”

Curt HolmanSeptember 5, 2018

A mainstay of high school reading lists, Henrik Ibsen’s proto-feminist play A Doll’s House contains one of the most famous departures in theater history, up the...

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