For Andrew Durand, the community stage led to Broadway. :: If you were a theater kid in Roswell in the 1990s, you knew Roswell Village Playhouse. Tucked in the back of a shopping center on the corner of Highway 9 and Highway 92, it presented full seasons of plays for children and adults with volunteer…
When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he shot for the moon — and even looked up its phases. :: What do you get when you cross a historian with a comic artist? Maybe a clever punchline but definitely an intriguing, genre-crossing work…
In Sandy Springs, there is a mammoth of a musical playing. Billed as City Springs Theatre’s “most ambitious production ever,” the hype around Ragtime has proven to be more than mere marketing language. The Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens calls for a large ensemble and numerous featured characters with their own…
Early members of Whole World Improv Theatre look back on three decades of humor — as well as the venues and furniture that tested their resolve. :: Back in the 1990s, young members of Whole World Improv Theatre could be seen on the corner of 10th and Piedmont, holding boots and excitedly collecting money from…
Atlanta native Chapel Oaks shares her personal takes on juggling high school and acting and why Atlanta was better than Los Angeles to start her on-screen career. :: Not every kid who aspires to pursue a TV career in acting has opportunities in their own backyard. But given the booming film and TV industry in…
Those in the United Kingdom have plentiful opportunities this holiday season to see a traditional show known as a Christmas panto. A quick Google search reveals that London alone has a vast array of pantos throughout the city, and, across the British Isles and Ireland, the art form is an essential part of seasonal entertainment….
Avid theater fans may remember actor Greg Kamp, who, among other things, starred as Jack Kelly in Aurora Theatre and Atlanta Lyric Theatre’s Newsies in 2018 to glowing reviews, including one from ArtsATL editor-at-large Jim Farmer. Though his career has taken him away from the South, Kamp’s Atlanta roots were planted years ago, training in…
When Beautiful: The Carole King Musical was new to Broadway in 2014, Aurora Theatre co-founder and artistic director Ann-Carol Pence knew she had to get her hands on the rights to the jukebox musical as soon as they were available. Centered on the singer/songwriter of the 1960s and ’70s known for hits like “Will You…
When Mary Poppins was on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, it was a high-flying extravaganza. The umbrella-toting title character went rising, rising, rising from the stage, drifting out over the audience until she was able to get eye-to-eye with ticketholders in the upper balcony. In 2006, the Washington Post reviewer called Mary-taking-wing “the most bewitching thing…
Craig A. Meyer’s path as a triple-threat performer has taken him down many different roads — from Disney to Broadway, and a lot of points in between — but he never imagined he would end up as an Elton John tribute artist. Now 17 years after moving to Atlanta, his concert, Remember When Rock Was…
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