Out Front Theatre Company will celebrate the five-year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage with Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. The livestreamed event begins at 8 p.m. Friday (June 26) and features nine short works by playwrights Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison, Moisés Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Wendy MacLeod, José Rivera, Paul Rudnick and…
I pass as white most of the time. Maybe in the middle of summer I might get asked, “What are you?” Or, “You’re something, right?” To which I answer, “Yes . . . I’m something.” I’m the son of an immigrant. My dad was born in Venezuela. When he came to this country at 7…
Atlanta composer–lyricist–librettist Haddon Kime — who’s been writing musicals since high school — didn’t have to wait long for a Covid-19 lockdown project. He’s partnered with Out of Hand Theater to create an original 10-minute, eight-song show titled LAG: A Zoomsical. It screens — on Zoom, naturally — at 8 p.m. Saturday (May 30) and…
When Out of Hand Theater convenes its latest conversation on race and equity this Sunday, the evening will begin with two minutes and 23 seconds of silence in honor of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Brunswick man killed in February while jogging in his neighborhood. The theater company thought about focusing exclusively on Arbery’s story and…
Out of Hand Theater returns to its social activism ways virtually this Sunday (April 19) with what it calls “Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice.” If you remember, the theater company hosted 120 Decatur Dinners for 1,200 attendees in homes, community centers and houses of worship in August. The topic: race and equity. The goal then,…
Out of Hand Theater will stream its one-actor Conceal and Carry on Saturday, April 19, via Zoom. The piece takes on gun violence in America by delving into the psyche of a liberal gun owner and the cryptic history of the NRA. Conceal and Carry was first performed in homes across Atlanta last fall and winter….
Georgia painter Corrine Colarusso opens her second solo show at Poem 88 with a 5 p.m. reception Saturday, March 7. Corrine Colarusso: Every Leaf a Flower is intended to remind viewers of private moments spent in communion with nature. Colarusso, who taught at the Atlanta College of Art from 1975 to 1996, paints in acrylic…
Call 2019 the season of exits. Six longtime Atlanta theater leaders left their jobs — or announced they soon would. Serenbe Playhouse cofounder Brian Clowdus left the nonprofit world to concentrate on his for-profit endeavor, Brian Clowdus Experiences. Kevin Gillese, artistic director at Dad’s Garage for 10 years, traded administration to be a full-time creative…
If, as an Atlanta theatergoer, you’ve seen Bad Jews, Blackberry Winter, Lasso of Truth, Nomad Motel or Project Dawn, among many others, you’ve experienced the work of the National New Play Network. This weekend, NNPN brings the industry’s eyes south with its National Showcase of New Plays happening through Sunday at Actor’s Express. For six playwrights,…
Our 20 by 2020 series will profile 20 theater artists, administrators and innovators by the end of the year. All are shaking up the city’s stages. This is no. 14. To see the others, search “20 by 2020” from the homepage. :: The most powerful stories hit you where you live. We try to dismiss…
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