Tag: Alliance Theatre

Hosting the FIFA World Cup 2026™ is the latest chapter in a 30-year transformation that began with the 1996 Olympic Games, which accelerated the city's growth, strengthened public-private partnerships, elevated its cultural and culinary profile, and established Atlanta as one of the world's leading destinations for major sporting events.

What do you make when you have almost nothing? Now playing at the Alliance Theatre, Basura answer that question with music, community, and hope. The...

From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthplace to a museum devoted to Coca-Cola, here are 10 Atlanta must-do’s

One of the most gratifying aspects of my years at WABE was connecting listeners to our city’s cultural events. A vibrant arts community can uplift and enrich the lives of Atlantans. The challenge today is to help these organizations thrive: Funding is essential from various sources. With money allocated to the arts, we can all take pride in a city made greater by its cultural organizations.

When Beth Hyland first shopped around the script for her play Fires, Ohio, multiple theater companies told her it was unproducible. There wasn’t a problem with the dialogue or the plot; the script, humorous and gripping, had already won both the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting and the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. The setting itself was the issue: a two-story house in an Ohio town, surrounded by a raging wildfire.

Atlanta’s arts season is bursting with creativity, from the High Museum’s landmark exhibition of Minnie Evans to bold new takes on Balanchine, Bram Stoker, and Tennessee Williams. Here's your 2025 fall arts calendar.

Unveiled February 4, the Atlanta Opera’s upcoming 2025/2026 season is “all about twilight,” says artistic director Tomer Zvulun. And not just because the company is presenting the eagerly awaited production of Richard Wagner’s Twilight of the Gods (Götterdämmerung), the impressive conclusion to the composer’s Ring cycle, a massive 15-year undertaking for the Atlanta Opera.

A pop-up before pop-ups were cool, Club Zebra featured live readings, music performances, poetry, dance, and everything in between. The audience watched from small cabaret tables and sipped beer and wine purchased via donations since the show had no alcohol license; it was a speakeasy, after all.

Atlanta’s theater community mourns the loss of the Atlanta acting icon, who died December 3 at age 75 after a prolonged battle with prostate cancer.

With all the film and TV projects that have been shot here, Atlanta has no shortage of talented local stage actors successfully crossing over to do film and television work. Here are some notable Atlantans you may have first seen onstage who now lend their talents to both the big and small screens.