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Year in Review: A look back at the theatrical productions that dazzled us in 2018

News: “The Color Purple,” “Angels In America” from Actor’s Express big winners in Suzi Bass Awards

Review: Serenbe puts its unique and mostly successful stamp on Chekhov’s “The Seagull”

Review: “Dot” at True Colors brings vivid life and humor to the tragedy of Alzheimer’s

Review: Alliance’s “Sheltered” a strongly executed, old-fashioned theater throwback

News: Idea Capital awards $15,000 in grants to Atlanta artists for projects in 2018

Review: Lauren Gunderson’s “Miss Bennet” offers smart and witty take on Jane Austen

Review: “Abigail/1702” builds on Arthur Miller’s “Crucible” but unwisely veers from his intent

Review: Serenbe’s high-reaching, sharp take on “Cabaret” hits all the right notes, old chum

Preview: Danielle Deadwyler “Busts It Open” with Auburn Avenue Living Walls piece

ARTS ATL StaffDecember 26, 2018

From sinking ships in high-spectacle musicals to heartfelt family dramas, the shows on Atlanta's stages were as diverse as our beloved city. New faces popped up...

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ARTS ATL StaffNovember 6, 2018

Actor’s Express took home the biggest prizes at Monday night’s 14th-annual Suzi Bass Awards for local theater at the Conant Performing Arts Center. The company ...

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Andrew AlexanderSeptember 12, 2018

In an early scene of Anton Chekhov’s 1896 classic The Seagull, a small group of family members and friends gather outdoors by a lake to watch a baffling new pla...

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Kelundra SmithJuly 25, 2018

Dotty (Denise Burse) has a not-so-hidden secret. She’s been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and now that her children are coming home for the holidays, she has to b...

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Andrew AlexanderMarch 14, 2018

If you could save a stranger’s child by risking your own safety and security, would you? The moral intricacies and personal strain that an American Jewish cou...

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Andrew AlexanderJanuary 9, 2018

Idea Capital, an independent Atlanta-based arts funding initiative that gives grants to individual artists to help fund their projects, has announced its 2018 a...

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Jim FarmerDecember 20, 2017

That former Atlantan Lauren Gunderson has become the most produced playwright in the country is no fluke or accident. Her work is smart and accessible, with fem...

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Andrew AlexanderSeptember 27, 2017

A bit of old writing advice has it that a story should start, not at the beginning, but in media res, right in the middle of things. The new play Abigail/1702 b...

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Andrew AlexanderAugust 16, 2017

“What good is sitting alone in your room?” asks a character in the title number of the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret. Well, the short answer is: there isn’t any...

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Gail O'NeillApril 13, 2017

Danielle Deadwyler is an Atlanta-bred actress, dancer, poet and experimental filmmaker whose hip-hop alter-ego, didi xio, bears zero resemblance to the sunny, b...

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