Georgia Shakespeare's 25th season will begin with a world premiere: "Prophets," a multimedia work by longtime company member Brad Sherrill, which delves into the Old Testament texts of Isaiah and Jeremiah.
From March 24 through 28, Sherrill will perform "Prophets" in repertory with his first one-man Bible-based show, "The Gospel of John," which he has performed more than 500 times since 2001 at churches and theaters, from off-Broadway's Lamb's Theatre to Westminster Cathedral.
I am sorry to say that I have never seen "Gospel," but the YouTube clips (and this) are pretty wonderful. You can see how Sherrill's grasp of Shakespearean rhythm transforms the words into ...
After a bit of a financial dry spell, Georgia Shakespeare's Shake at the Lake is coming back to Atlanta's Piedmont Park in May.
On the verge of opening its 25th season, the theater announced Wednesday that Bank of America has come through as sponsor of the evocative, al fresco happening. (After running for four years, the 2009 event was canceled because the theater couldn't afford it.)
Happily, John Dillon's free-form "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — first seen last summer at the Oglethorpe University theater — will run May 5-9 on the pier at Lake Clara Meer. In Dillon's inventive staging of "Midsummer," the ...
The Alliance Theatre has announced its 2010-11 season, and it’s a pretty spectacular lineup. Beginning with the world premiere of “Bring It On: The Musical,” based on the film about extreme cheerleader competitions, the list includes five premieres (including a new play by Atlanta’s Pearl Cleage, top photo) and Tracy Letts’ big, juicy, Pulitzer Prize-winning family potboiler, “August: Osage County.”
Though it had been rumored that the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” announced for the 2008-09 season but later scratched, was back in the mix, it apparently didn’t make the list.
The mystery surrounding that title is becoming as ...
When Synchronicity Performance Group put together its current season, the theater's budget was "as close to the bone" as it could be, says artistic director Rachel May. Then came "Bunnicula," the children's tale about a vampire bunny that opened the theater's season Sept. 22.
Hopping along for four weeks on the Alliance Theatre's Hertz Stage, "Bunnicula" "just didn't make it in terms of ticket sales," May says, blaming the busy back-to-school time slot for the slow run.
As a result, Synchronicity has canceled the last two shows of its season: Sarah Ruhl's "Dead Man's Cell Phone" and "The Brand New Kid," a family show. ...
The judges of the Suzi Bass Awards have spoken, and the top play and musical of the 2008-2009 Atlanta theater season were Theatre in the Square's "A Man for All Seasons" (top photo) and Theatrical Outfit's "Big River" (second photo).
Atlanta's marquee professional theater honors, the local equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards, were handed out Monday night at Oglethorpe University's Conant Performing Arts Center.
Theatre in the Square and Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company took home the most Suzis -- with four each. Some of the city's most distinguished actors received a silver star statue-ette named for Suzi Bass, a beloved ...
Glitzy musicals of varying quality have dominated the Atlanta theater season thus far. "Come Fly With Me," Twyla Tharp's Broadway-caliber homage to the music of Frank Sinatra, received its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre earlier this fall, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's affectionate portrait of the Latino community -- the Tony Award-winning "In the Heights" -- just completed a six-day run at the Fox Theatre.
These high-profile productions have made us hungry for some straight-on drama, and we were hoping to be able to tout David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre" -- starring Broadway legend Andre De Shields and New York ...
