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It is always fun to receive positive criticism from other writers but it is an especially unique experience to have another writer stop you mid-sentence and say, “Hey, you should check out this other artist instead.” Enter Sarah Peacock and now, I introduce her to you, my delicious, southwest Florida.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Sarah Peacock is a singer and songwriter who now calls the continental US her home. The …more…
For a snapshot of the breadth and depth of the Atlanta theater community, one could hardly do better than a pair of upcoming season announcements by two very different theater companies over the past month.
Actor’s Express, known for its dedication to boundary-pushing works, announced a 25th anniversary lineup of big-name controversial dramas and other productions, signaling that the company, which was forced to reach out to the local community for …more…
There’s no doubt about it: Onstage Atlanta, the area’s premier semi-professional theater company, chose an opportune moment to stage John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable. President Barack Obama’s recent statement in support of the concept of gay marriage (following the passage of an amendment in North Carolina defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman) has again raised the thorny issue of how we regard the gay …more…
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On May 9, Georgia Shakespeare launches its 27th season with an open-air production of William Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest. That opening should have a special poignancy for the staff of one of Atlanta’s premier theatre companies; it wasn’t so long ago that Georgia Shakespeare was enduring a tempest of its own, and faced the sobering prospect that it might already have taken its final bow. …more…
Shuler Hensley as Jud Fry in Oklahoma!
It’s easy to give in to a sense of gloom and doom, or at least a lingering unease, about the health of live theater these days, especially with Atlanta-area companies facing ever harsher economic realities. The circumstances behind the recent shuttering of Theatre in the Square, after all, were hardly unique to that long-running Marietta playhouse. In the face of such uncertainty, the …more…
With a pedigree that includes novelist Stephen King (playwright), rocker John Mellencamp (music), Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett (musical director) and director Susan V. Booth, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is one of the most anticipated local productions in recent memory. The musical, which features original music by Mellencamp and a bluesy, roots-tinged score, is also one of the longest-awaited productions in the history of the Tony …more…
Last month, this blog reported that Theatre in the Square, the acclaimed Marietta playhouse, was in dire financial straits and in danger of closing its doors. ...more...
Theatre in the Square, an Atlanta theater mainstay currently entering the home stretch of its 30th season, may not last to observe a 31st. The Marietta playhouse, whose managing director Raye Varney recently resigned in an effort to stave off financial hardship, has announced that it needs to raise $60,000 by March 16. The theater’s full board will meet on that date to assess its situation, and decide whether to close its doors for good if that goal isn’t met. ...more...
Photo by Clay Walker, Courtesy The Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts is well-known as the nation’s foremost museum and educational resource focused on the art of puppetry. But audiences outside of Georgia probably aren’t as acquainted with its theatrical aspect, featuring works aimed at grade-schoolers, teens and adults, from an upcoming adaptation of Peter Pan to the Center’s signature Xperimental Puppetry Theater, a decidedly family-unfriendly showcase …more…
Ladies and gentlemen, start your bidding. The 13th annual ART PAPERS silent art auction is set to begin February 11, 2012 at Mason Murer Fine Art. In addition to artists receiving up to 35% of the proceeds from the sale of their work, Atlanta’s signature visual art event will benefit new and existing programs from ART PAPERS, the award-winning, Atlanta-based contemporary art magazine.
Including an impressive collection of works by Radcliffe …more…
Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage is having a moment. On the heels of its Tony Award-winning 2009 run on Broadway, the play has been popping up in stagings across the country, and Roman Polanski’s film adaptation, starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz, is still screening in multiplexes.
And now the dark comedy, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, arrives in Atlanta for a run at …more…
Kiang Gallery, one of the most revered galleries in the Atlanta art scene, ends its remarkable 20-year tenure in the city with 16 Sided Crystal, a solo exhibition presenting works by local artist Ben Steele. The 16 oil on panel works, paintings based on straight photographs that are both transcendental and technological, aim to “simulate a digital vocabulary through physical form…through crystals and prisms, of actual physical constructions.” ...more...
We’re talking about the monthly Ponce Crush, a First Saturday collaborative art stroll connecting three galleries along Atlanta’s Ponce De Leon Ave. and their respective group shows: Young Blood Gallery, a mainstay in the independent and underground art community, Kibbee Gallery, an alternative art space in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood and Beep Beep Gallery, a gallery committed to showing work by emerging local artists. ...more...
If you’ve been searching Atlanta for your favorite shade of OPI nail polish, we just might know where it’s gone off to. In just over a week’s time, works by acclaimed Atlanta-based artist Scott Ingram are set to grace the perfectly manicured walls of Emily Amy Gallery. The gallery’s first-ever exhibition of said artist, entitled Cusp, features drip drawings painted in nail polish in shiny, lacquered shades of metallic, neon …more…
Atlanta art lovers now have even more reason to be enamored with the city’s creative scene. AtlantaPlanIt and Georgia Perimeter College’s Department of Fine Arts have teamed up to give away one free piece of art a day until December 13. But it’s not that easy. Interested parties are going to have to dig around a bit and embark on a veritable art treasure hunt to find these pieces. ...more...
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Carefully assembled from the amazing collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of a multi-year collaboration between MOMA and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, Picasso to Warhol traces the development of modernism as seen through the brush strokes, sculptures, photographs, drawings, collages and silkscreen prints of artists that radically changed the way the world views art.
The exhibition, one of the largest collections …more…
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