The summer play festival at Essential Theatre has become an annual tradition. For two decades, the nonprofit has given voice to mostly Georgia playwrights via w...
History repeats itself in Emily McClain’s Slaying Holofernes when two heroines, despite living 400 years apart, experience the same misogyny from male colleague...
In the drama Blackbird, the character Una confronts her former lover 15 years after the end of their relationship. She was 12 when she became involved with ...
Emily McClain
The 21st Essential Theatre summer festival begins Friday, July 26, with a lineup featuring three world premieres and four staged readings, all...
Avery Sharpe is having the kind of season that most theater artists only fantasize about. The actor turned playwright just completed starring in a sold-out run ...
When we first meet Tess, the main character in the new play Built to Float, she is drowning a bit. Family issues have enveloped her and left her with psychologi...
It’s fair to say Avery Sharpe is having a busy week. Not only is he performing the lead role in Black Nerd, Jon Carr’s new comedy at Dad’s Garage about the chal...
This was a busy year of theater, with world premieres popping up in every corner and local companies flexing their creative muscles. ArtsATL critics Andrew Alex...
Fraught mother-daughter relationships have long been fodder for dramatists, but the mothers and daughters that populate the new play Another Mother, on stage at...
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