Am I the only person in Atlanta who has never seen the Alliance Theatre’s production of “A Christmas Carol,” in at least one of its incarnations? I always meant to see it, but year after year it was Christmastime at the movies, which left very little time -- or inclination -- to watch anything I didn’t have to.
And I’d actually been in “A Christmas Carol,” centuries ago, at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. I was one of those hapless extras wandering around in the background, warming our hands on non-existent coal fires or singing along on the easier carols. I ...
“Cavalia” is a dream of horses.
Black ones, white ones, bays, grays, buckskins, chestnuts, even the occasional paint. Their noses are nobly Roman or daintily dished. Their manes drape like fairy cobwebs and their necks are proud and powerful, like a steed out of “The Lord of the Rings.”
They are, in a word, breathtaking.
Sometimes, they race around the stage without saddle, bridle or rider, as unfettered as God made them. Other times, they’re like moving platforms, the flesh-and-blood base for some fancy stunt riding. A petite blonde dressed in New Age/ Road Warrior motley, commands a small herd to rear in ...
The Alliance Theatre's production of “A Life in the Theatre” is, alas, D.O.A.
I first saw David Mamet’s play when it made its Off-Broadway debut in 1977 at the Theatre de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel). At the time, no one knew what to expect from this upstart Chicago playwright who’d followed the sting of “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” with the let-it-bleed emotional violence of “American Buffalo.” (Which has since become something of a Mamet trademark).
The show was about all things theatre, 26 or so short comic scenes of two lives in the theatre: One older, John, one younger, Robert. They were ...
There’s an old adage in horse racing: Breed the best to the best and hope for the best. In a sense, that’s what’s happening at Theatrical Outfit and True Colors’ co-production of Athol Fugard’s "Blood Knot," running through August 2.
The best -- Tom Key, Kenny Leon and Susan Booth -- have come together and the result is akin to a perfect storm for the Atlanta theatre community.
Leon and Key (one the Artistic Director of True Colors; the other of the Theatrical Outfit where the play is being staged) have been here before. They played Fugard’s mismatched brothers (in ways that go ...
Admit it.
It’s almost 5 pm on a Sunday afternoon. Looks like it's about to storm. The last thing you want to do is haul your sorry ass to a play.
Well, your loss. And almost mine.
Out of a self-pitying sense of duty, I trekked over to the Horizon Theatre, Lisa Adler’s little miracle ensconced on the fringe of Little Five Points for the last quarter of a century.
The new play, “A Cool Drink A Water,” is part of their New South Play Festival. Written by Thomas W. Jones II, co-founder of Jomandi Productions and a frequent Horizon collaborator, the piece can be taken ...
Editor's note: I like these daily introductions. Today we're honored to announce that Eleanor Ringel Cater will join Steve Murray and Wendell Brock reviewing theater for ArtscriticATL. Eleanor is a familiar presence on Atlanta's arts scene. In addition to radio and television work and a column for TV Guide, she was The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's chief film critic for 29 years.
But a theater critic for ArtscriticATL? Theater was her major at Brown University, and she was a member of Playwright's Unit at the Public Theatre under Joe Papp and has acted in various regional companies around the Southeast. We welcome her ...
