Tag: theater

"My first question is, ‘Can you sing in this?’” says Joanna Schmink, the costume designer and coordinator for the Atlanta Opera.

It has been more than three decades since two teenage boys went missing in Atlanta in the summer of 1979. Their disappearances were the first of 29 kidnappings and murders that rocked the city until 1981. That tumultuous chapter is revisited now in dramatic form with the world premiere of Janine Nabers’s Serial Black Face at Actor’s Express.

“We’re really, really excited by the talent in our city,” says Celise Kalke, director of new projects at the Alliance Theatre. “We have a commitment to the Atlanta theater community, and we want to support its members and foster relationships between them.”

The new space, which Dad’s bought after raising $169,000 through Kickstarter, marks the first time that the company has owned its own theater.

“For 16 years, I’ve been operating under the very firm belief that it’s possible for a playwright to have a national career and be based out of Atlanta,” says Payne.

Robert John Connor has shared microphones with Gladys Knight and Michael Bublé, and appeared on The Cosby Show, A Different World, and Glory. But when the Morehouse graduate founded Dominion Entertainment Group, which showcases the work of black actors and playwrights, he opted to base the company in his hometown.

Theatrical Outfit's Tom Key on their upcoming season, the importance of audience diversity, and why the success of the Hollywood of the South is great for the Atlanta theater scene.

Neal Ghant—who leads the Alliance Theatre’s production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest this month—had no qualms about watching Jack Nicholson’s gonzo, Oscar-winning portrayal of mental ward patient Randle P. McMurphy.

When playwright Rachel Teagle was a kid, she read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden—about a lonely orphan named Mary, her sickly cousin Colin, and the garden that changes their lives—so many times that the cover disintegrated.