The summer play festival at Essential Theatre has become an annual tradition. For two decades, the nonprofit has given voice to mostly Georgia playwrights via w...
What’s more satisfying than a good resolution? Theater often fulfills the desire to see the bad guy get what’s coming to him, to see lovers live happily ever af...
The best way to describe the musical Head Over Heels? A mashup of Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream set to the music of the Go-Go’s. Grecian opulence ...
Just his name can elicit near gasps from musical theater fans. Lyricist/composer Stephen Schwartz has written such Broadway hits as Pippin, Godspell and Wicked,...
Horizon Theatre’s Sweet Water Taste begins in rural North Carolina during Obama’s presidency. Elijah Beckford (LaParee Young), a black Southern funeral director...
Driving up to Serenbe Playhouse’s 10th-anniversary production of Hair feels like stepping back in time. In the middle of a grassy open field sits a bus and a va...
Some stories, though classically loved and valued, do little more today than reveal growingly irrelevant schools of thought. Driving Miss Daisy, which Georgia E...
History hasn’t been terribly kind to Pocahontas. A 1995 Disney-movie portrayal, for instance, is remembered more for its Oscar-winning song “Colors of the Wind”...
