The Pros and Cons of Killing Your Cult Leader, a new play running July 19 through July 23 at Aurora Theatre and August 6 through August 9 at the Shakespeare Tavern, uses physical humor and fun satire to draw audiences into a difficult, important subject: how the traumas of religious oppression can affect women. According…
Our 20 by 2020 series attempts to profile 20 theater artists, administrators and innovators by the end of the year. All are shaking up the city’s stages. This is no. 16. To see the others, search “20 by 2020” from the homepage. :: The best theater directors are everyday gods who can make the impossible…
For the third time in its eight-year history, the Weird Sisters Theatre Project has a new team of producers. These five women — Natalie Fox, Asia Howard, Renita James, Erika Miranda and Ibi Owolabi — are expected to lead the company, which does theater by women for everyone — for two years. Fox, primarily a…
7 Stages is the last place you’d expect to see Ebenezer Scrooge, the Nutcracker Prince or other Christmas mainstays of the performing arts. The Little Five Points playhouse embraces an avant-garde, anti-commercialism sensibility that makes it an interesting place during the holidays. For years, they partnered with the Little Five Points Rockstar Orchestra for “Krampus…
The Weird Sisters Theatre Project is responsible for such quirky, female-driven local productions as Anton in Show Business, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, and Hot Pink, or Ready to Blow. When the original team behind Weird Sisters — Kelly Criss, Veronika Duerr, Jaclyn Hofmann, Tiffany Porter and Megan Rose-Houchins — decided to step down, they…
The Halloween season is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that women can be every bit as diabolical, bloody and violent as their male counterparts. Dangerous Women, a new show through October 30 from the all-female, Atlanta-based theater troupe the Weird Sisters Theatre Project, offers up a ghoulish parade of female murderers,…
If you remember 1980s comedies like Sixteen Candles and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you’re probably familiar with some of the problems faced by the three protagonists of Hot Pink, or Ready to Blow, a world premiere play by Atlanta playwright Johnny Drago currently at the Alliance Theatre’s black box space through August 30. Hot Pink…
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