Suehyla El-Attar was born in Mississippi to Muslim parents who migrated from Egypt before becoming naturalized American citizens. She is an actor-writer-director who has learned to embrace a hyphenate existence, and lives happily with her fiancé and their two cats in Decatur. :: For as long as I can remember, I’ve been afraid to focus…
Next Gen Playwrights: Beyond the Struggle is the title of True Colors Theatre Company’s next virtual Community Conversation. Playwright/author Pearl Cleage moderates a livestreamed discussion with playwrights Paris Crayton III, Suehyla El-Attar and Dana Stringer at 7 p.m. Saturday (November 21). It will focus on narratives being shaped by playwrights who are Black, Indigenous or people of…
When placing politics on the stage nowadays, absurdism and farce seem the best, if not the only possible, approach. It’s the tack of playwright (and Decatur-native) Lauren Gunderson in her fine new comedy The Taming, currently having a production at Atlanta’s Synchronicity Theatre through June 24. Any plot description must come with the requisite spoiler…
In a night that saw a slew of Atlanta theaters claim trophies, it was Serenbe Playhouse who wound up dominating the field at the 2016 Suzi Bass Awards Monday evening, taking the prize for Best Musical for its bold, outdoor version of Miss Saigon.
The Telluride Mountainfilm On Tour festival makes its fourth annual stop at the Plaza Atlanta Theatre Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a slate of movies that focus on celebrating nature, art and adventure. The festival kicks off Thursday night with a screening of 50 Feet From Syria, a documentary about the experiences of Syrian-American surgeon…
By the time Andrew Ramcharan Guilarte took a bow following his performance in the Alliance Theatre’s first preview performance of Disgraced last week, the leading man was visibly shaken. The posture was in sharp contrast to his commanding on-stage presence just moments earlier. And gone were any traces of the “enormous, almost swaggering confidence” Susan…
To say that “Die, Mommie, Die!” is a play about Angela Arden and her problems is something of an understatement. Ms. Arden doesn’t just face problems; she’s consistently confronted with outrageous crisis after crisis of the type typical of playwright Charles Busch. Busch came to fame in the late 1980s for the drag plays he…
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