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'Zorro' makes its U.S. premiere at the Alliance

Director Christopher Renshaw talks about his lavish production (Pyrotechnics! Bullfights!) and collaborating with the Gipsy Kings on the story of the โ€œoriginal superheroโ€

Posted on 4/3/2013 2:00:00 PM by Wendell Brock
As a young British chap touring Spain with his mum some years ago, Renshaw became enchanted with flamenco and bullfighting. So when he was approached about staging the tale of rapier-wielding, masked lothario Zorro, he had one caveat: โ€œYes. As long as itโ€™s flamenco.โ€ Read More

Dance debuts from gloATL and the Atlanta Ballet

Atlanta's dance evolution continues with "Hippodrome" and "New Choreographic Voices"

Posted on 3/18/2013 8:00:00 AM by Wendell Brock
In 2006 choreographer Lauri Stallings unveiled Shoo Pah Minor, her first commission for the Atlanta Ballet. After the performance, John McFall, the Balletโ€™s artistic director, followed Stallings to the bathroom to ask if sheโ€™d consider a three-year residency. Read More

Waffle House Takes the Stage

Breakfast theater

Posted on 5/1/2012 12:00:00 PM by Wendell Brock
As longtime Atlanta playwrights Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee see it, the Waffle House witching hour occurs every morning around 3 a.m. That’s the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction moment when babies are born in the parking lot and cops Taser waiters just for fun. That’s precisely the mood the legendary duo hope to capture in their latest effort, "The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered, and Scattered 24/7/365," running May 11 to June 24 at Little Five Points’ Horizon Theatre Company. Read More

Boris Kodjoe: The Spy Who Loves Atlanta

A local actor gets a high-profile new role

Posted on 11/1/2010 12:00:00 PM by Wendell Brock
When Boris Kodjoe decided to get into films, he didn’t fit the Hollywood mold. People often assumed he was African American because of his skin tone. But thanks to his German upbringing, the Vienna-born actor had the kind of thick European accent associated with Russian spies, Nazi bad guys, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.   Read More

Five Minutes With . . . Richard Garner

A director takes center stage

Posted on 10/1/2010 12:00:00 PM by Wendell Brock
Richard Garner, producing artistic director of Georgia Shakespeare, spent his summer vacation draining his highlighter on big books. While the theater he cofounded twenty-five years ago in a tent sailed through King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Shrew: The Musical, he was preparing to guest-direct Theatrical Outfit’s world premiere adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s satirical, Pulitzer-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. He was also r Read More

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