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The August Threepeat: As You Like It • Aug 13 - Sep 02 The New American Shakespeare Tavern (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Directed by Jeff Watkins
What will Rosalind have to do to find and keep her Orlando? Join us on a romp through the Forest of Arden where everyone from jesters to shepherds finds love. more... |
Improv Revolution - Thursday night Improv • Dec 10 - Dec 30 Dad's Garage (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) The future of yesterday's improv tomorrow - today! New formats, fresh faces and big ideas mark our ever-changing Thursday night testing ground for new improv formats and new improvisers.
This week, the... more...
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Singin' in the Rain • Aug 05 - Sep 05 Aurora Theatre (Lawrenceville) Based on the MGM film
Screenplay & Adaptation by Betty Comden & Adolf Green
Songs by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed
(Original Choreography by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
The greatest movie musical of all... more... |
Shopping and F**king • Aug 13 - Sep 04 The Process Theatre Co. (Decatur) Ravenhill's penetrating dark comedy follows a trio of young Brits who sell drugs, sex, and what is left of their souls to survive. The story unfolds in a series of tightly compressed scenes and the dialogue is... more...
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Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ Live Cast • Jan 01 - Dec 25 Lips Down on Dixie (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) Lips Down On Dixie performs the interactive version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. more...
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller • Sep 03 - Sep 19 Lionheart Theatre Company (Norcross) directed by John Doran
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the
Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150... more...
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Ghost Tours of Lawrenceville • May 07 - Sep 25 Aurora Theatre (Lawrenceville) Lawrenceville Ghost Tours (Walking Tour) Lawrenceville, GA a quiet southern town born almost 200 years ago is home to some of the most bizarre and spooky tales ever told. Like other southern towns,... more...
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The August Threepeat: Taming of the Shrew • Aug 12 - Sep 04 The New American Shakespeare Tavern (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) This summer, we bring back the Shakespeare comedies you know and love, in repertory! Love reigns in mysterious ways.
The Taming of the Shrew
Welcome to the Bard’s famous comedic “battle of the sexes.”... more...
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TheatreSports - Saturday Night Improv • Dec 05 - Dec 25 Dad's Garage (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) Our longest running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast–paced improv competition featuring the best improvisers in the city. Consisting of two teams, a host/referee, judges... more...
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Pageant: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest • Aug 25 - Oct 24 2 Fat Farmers Productions (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Directed by Tony Award Nominee Bill Russell
What’s glitz, glamour, poise and talent, without five o’clock shadow? Pageant: The Musical’s beauty “queens” have it all, and as emcee Frankie Cavalier... more...
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Laughing Matters @ Manuel's Tavern • Jan 02 - Nov 06 Laughing Matters (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) General Improv, 1st Saturday of each month more... |
Italian Baroque Extravaganza • Sep 04 only New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta - Buckhead and North) ITALIAN BAROQUE EXTRAVAGANZA
Music by Vivaldi, Corelli, Manfredini and Torelli
New Trinity Baroque, directed by Predrag Gosta, opens it's 12th season with exciting instrumental concertos by Vivaldi,... more... |
Winnie the Pooh • Aug 14 - Sep 18 The Blackwell Playhouse (Marietta) Blackwell Playhouse proudly presents A.L. Milne's classic tale of Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh is Christopher Robin's fat little bear of very little brain who would like to drift peacefully through life,... more...
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A Confederacy of Dunces • Aug 11 - Sep 12 Theatrical Outfit (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Like Shakespeare’s Falstaff, Ignatius Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces has the bombastic comic power to subvert reality and his madcap adventures in the 1960s French Quarter of New Orleans prove to be as... more... |
Anne of Green Gables • Aug 28 - Sep 26 Kudzu Playhouse (Roswell) Adapted by the Family Playhouse from the turn-of-the century novel by L. M. Montgomery.
The time is 1908. The place is Avonlea, Canada. Green Gables is the home of lovable Matthew Cuthbert and his stern... more...
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Rumplestilskin • Aug 07 - Sep 11 Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Adapted by Bobby Box and Michael Haverty
Directed by Michael Haverty
“My daughter can spin straw into gold!” brags Kate’s father. Now she must find a way to make good on her father’s boast! A... more...
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The Boys Next Door • Sep 01 - Sep 19 Georgia Ensemble Theatre (Roswell) This touching and funny play focuses on four adult men living in a group home, along with their caring but overworked counselor. Mingled with scenes from their daily lives, where "little things" sometimes... more... |
Stealing Dixie, a Civil War Drama • Aug 04 - Sep 12 Theatre in the Square (Marietta) A gripping portrayal of Andrews' Raiders, a band of Northern soldiers and sympathizers, who pulled off a daring scheme to steal the General, a Confederate Army locomotive, and were later hanged in Atlanta for... more... World Premiere |
The August Threepeat: Midsummer Night's Dream • Aug 19 - Sep 11 The New American Shakespeare Tavern (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) (all new production!) Directed by Andrew Houchins
Dueling fairies, enchanted woods, a love triangle that turns hexagon…. watch the hilarity unravel right before your eyes in our all-new production! more... |
The Nerd • Aug 20 - Sep 19 Kudzu Playhouse (Roswell) The Nerd
By Larry Shue
Directed by Wally Hinds
This extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy is one of the funniest plays ever written. The action centers on the hilarious dilemma of a young... more... |
Becky Shaw • Aug 26 - Sep 25 Actor's Express (Atlanta - All Other Atlanta) Playwright: Gina Gionfriddo
Director: Freddie Ashley
ATLANTA PREMIERE
"Gina Gionfriddo is some kind of genius! Devastatingly funny. Sends little shockwaves of delight through the house."
Newlywed Suzanna... more... |