After her film Respect, in which she stars as legendary singer Aretha Franklin, had wrapped at the beginning of 2020, Jennifer Hudson looked forward to getting it out into the world later that year. Little did she or anyone know at the time that Covid would strike soon after and put a halt to most everything…
An unspoken but persistent popular notion has it that a theater critic’s job is to spoil everyone else’s good time. In the instance of the Alliance Theatre’s charming, crowd-pleasing new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, running at the Atlanta Botanical Garden through October 21, I simply can’t oblige. There’s certainly enough here to piss…
At a time when discrimination and witch hunts are increasingly becoming the norm again, Theatrical Outfit’s new Perfect Arrangement feels like a lot more than just snappy entertainment — it’s mandatory, topical viewing, as well as a glimpse back at a sad moment in history. Written by Atlanta’s prolific playwright Topher Payne, Perfect Arrangement —…
Shakespeare in Love, the Oscar-winning 1998 film, has lately been turned into a play, and it’s currently making the rounds at a number of regional theaters around the country. A new production opens the 2017–18 season at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, and ArtsATL critics Jim Farmer and Andrew Alexander had this to say about the show….
It took more than two decades to actually get it made, but the long wait was Georgia’s gain. After a premiere last week in Atlanta at the Rialto Center for the Arts, the locally-shot Bessie debuts Saturday on HBO. Bessie was filmed almost entirely in Georgia including more than 27 locations in Covington, Conyers, Duluth,…
Storefront Church is the third play in John Patrick Shanley’s lugubriously named Church and State trilogy, only the first of which, Doubt — which won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a film with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep — is likely familiar to Atlanta audiences. I don’t believe that the second, Defiance,…
It’s hardly a stretch to call the Alliance Theatre’s A Christmas Carol the Big Kahuna of holiday shows. Few if any local productions have its legs, its excesses or its certified crowd-pleasing nature. Yet the 25th anniversary production, running through December 24, is starting to show some wear. Rosemary Newcott, who has directed all but…
“Doors and sardines — that’s what it’s all about,” director Lloyd Dallas (Chris Kayser) tells his cast of fifth-rate actors as they struggle through their dress rehearsal for a dim little British sex farce. Doors, as in the seven doors on the two-story set, all of which must be entered, exited and slammed with the…
Georgia Shakespeare’s Shrew: The Musical transports Shakespearean comedy to a glitzy 1930s Miami setting, with Broadway-style singing and dancing and heart-aching, show-stopping ballads. Even longtime Georgia Shakes fans might be astonished at the result: a rousing, laugh-packed performance with all the talent and polish of a big New York show. To celebrate the company’s 25th summer, its…
Richard Garner didn’t want to be specific — because that might jinx it. But Georgia Shakespeare‘s producing artistic director opened his elegant new production of “Julius Caesar” the other night by dropping strong hints that the theater’s popular Shake at the Lake will return in 2010. The al fresco entertainment on the dock of Lake…
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