Arts & Events

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, watch an operatic take on Cinderella, wander through a grove of pastel trees, and paddle down the 'hooch on Mother's Day.

Boasting "15 acres of guns and gear," the 2017 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting has attracted roughly 800 exhibitors, gun enthusiasts galore, and even the President of the United States for the first time in 34 years.

Five Atlanta–area bookstores where you should celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, including A Cappella, Charis, and even one worth the drive.

The Atlanta Opera’s full sound is part of what makes it a world-renowned company. For that, you can thank not the full-throated stars, but the typically overlooked chorus.

Out Front Theatre Company arrived last fall with an ambitious production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. This month the company closes its three-show season with Paul Rudnick’s Old Testament re-do: The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (April 27-May 14), in which Adam partners with Steve, not Eve.

Inside this purple cave, the walls are lined not with rocks but sports equipment: basketballs, tennis balls, footballs, soccer balls. Look closer, and you’ll see something else: Instead of rubber or leather, the balls are made of calcified amethyst crystal, pockmarked with sparkly pitted edges.

The exhibition’s most prominent installation is a forest of salvaged, bare trees spray-painted in colors usually reserved for ice cream: vivid orange and pastel yellows, pinks, blues.

On April 21 and 22, the Georgia-born actress brings her big voice and screwball charm to Symphony Hall, where she’ll perform some of her favorite Broadway songs backed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda author Becky Albertalli talks to us about her second YA book, The Upside of Unrequited, and visiting the set of the Simon movie.

Local writer Karen White discusses her latest novel (her first set in metro Atlanta), suburban satire, and what inspires her.