ARTS ATL | News, Previews and Reviews of the Arts in Atlanta
WEB5 days ago · ARTS ATL offers comprehensive coverage of Atlanta's arts scene, including music, film and TV, books, theater, dance and the visual arts. Our events calendar includes every concert, gallery opening, festival and more. As a nonprofit, ARTS ATL supports the arts in Atlanta through independent journalism and programs.
Review: Atlanta Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ entertains with ... - ARTS ATL
WEBDec 12, 2023 · The first time I watched Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech The Nutcracker, the one Yuri Possokhov choreographed for the company in 2018, I felt that the huge video projections and lavish busyness of the set design dwarfed and distracted from the dancers. I often found myself looking at the sets and videos and not at the dancing. I saw the full-length ballet again at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts ...
Mike Geier and the origins of Puddles Pity Party - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 25, 2019 · Editor’s note: In the summer of 2013, when ArtsATL’s Jeff Stafford sat down to chat with singer Mike Geier, he was preparing for a club performance with the Kingsized Jazz Trio and had just developed the alternate character of a clown named Puddles who had a cabaret act called Puddles Pity Party.By 2017, Puddles was being cheered in living rooms across America due to Geier’s performances ...
Kimberly Belflower on childhood, growing up and reclaiming the …
WEBSeptember 27, 2023. Nostalgia and growth are the driving forces behind Lost Girl, a feminist follow-up to J.M. Barrie’s famous tale of Wendy Darling and the boy who never grew up. It’s appropriate that playwright Kimberly Belflower essentially grew up while she wrote the play, which she began at age 20 and finished nearly 10 years later.
The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 3, 2019 · The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo -- brown, queer, disabled and revolutionary - ARTS ATL. "I never paint dreams or nightmares," Frida Kahlo once said. "I paint my own reality." The turbulent life and love of the Mexican painter (1907–54) are the subject of The Atlanta Opera's "Frida," with performances October 5, 9, 11 and 13.
Review: Playwright Lauren Gunderson reframes “herstory” in “The ...
WEBMar 15, 2016 · Kelundra Smith reviews Lauren Gunderson's "The Revolutionists" at 7 Stages, about the importance of women being accounted for and written down.
Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” tour returns ... - ARTS ATL
WEBApr 18, 2023 · The posting caught her attention immediately. When former Atlantan Tamrin Goldberg saw that Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film Moulin Rouge was being turned into a stage musical and auditions were being held for the pre-Broadway run in Boston, she knew she had to be part of it. It’s taken a while, but the performer — who auditioned for the early run yet didn’t make it — is now in the national ...
Life begins at 40: In anniversary year, Atlanta Contemporary
WEBApr 24, 2013 · The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is celebrating its 40th birthday this year. If you’ve hit that mark yourself, you know that, as youthful as you might act and feel, physical signs of aging are inevitable. (If not, get ready.)
An in-depth conversation with “The Color Purple” author Alice …
WEBJul 17, 2019 · Walker, whose actual birthday is February 9, was born in Eatonton to parents who worked as sharecroppers. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Color Purple and close to 40 other books. Over the course of her 50-year career, she has worked as an artist, activist and educator, and she was a contributor to the feminist ...
Rick Beato brings his YouTube universe to the stage at Variety ...
WEBSep 25, 2023 · Beato will do a live version of his YouTube show Thursday night at the Variety Playhouse. He will teach, perform, answer audience questions and talk with some of his regular guests. The show also will feature a reunion concert of Billionaire, the band he helped form that originally brought him to Atlanta. Beato’s YouTube channel echoes his ...