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Review: Alliance hits a groove with Phillip DePoy’s stirring “Nick’s Flamingo Grill”

Kelundra SmithOctober 10, 2018

Chi-Chi (Diany Rodriguez), Ben (Jimmy Kieffer), Bechet (Antwayn Hopper) and Claudine (Shakirah Demesier) all met in Paris during the Second World War and bonded...

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Found Stages breaks down the wall between local playwrights and their audience

Kelundra SmithAugust 29, 2018

When most people come to hear a play, they expect to sit inside of an air-conditioned theater with a heavy velvet curtain hanging between them and the performer...

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News: Alliance announces 50th-anniversary season back home in its renovated theater

Scott FreemanMarch 26, 2018

The Alliance Theatre will celebrate its 50th season with a newly renovated theater space and five world premieres. The theater announced its 2018–19 season t...

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Year in review: For Atlanta theater in 2015, a lot of highs and moments that came up flat

ARTS ATL StaffDecember 31, 2015

Edward Foote was the brainchild of Atlanta playwright Phillip DePoy, and one of the highlights of the year in theater. While there was plenty to like about th...

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Review: Alliance’s “Edward Foote” a richly textured, quite enjoyable Southern Gothic

Jim FarmerApril 8, 2015

DePoy sees Edward Foote as part of a trilogy of plays. A Southern Gothic tale peppered with Appalachian folk music, Edward Foote has been simmering around tow...

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Preview: Atlanta writer Phillip DePoy brews up “Edward Foote,” a world premiere at the Alliance

Jim FarmerApril 1, 2015

Edward Foote is Phillip DePoy's take on Oedipus Rex. Phillip DePoy sits at Java Monkey in Decatur, a cup of coffee already in his system. It’s a bit ironic....

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Review: Actor’s Express wears its “Albatross” well in Lee Nowell’s world premiere

DAVID LEE SIMMONSOctober 26, 2010

Can you think of a more difficult play to pull off than the two-character drama? Everything rides on how the actors are able to work off each other while trying...

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Shakespeare Tavern goes “over the top” with rock ‘n’ roll “Hamlet”

Louis MayeuxJuly 14, 2010

Known for understated Elizabethan-style productions that are focused on Shakespeare's language and blissfully free of wacky "concepts," the Atlanta Shakespeare ...

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