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 Free to Be . . . You and Me • Feb 09 - Mar 07Synchronicity Performance Group (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) Directed by Heidi Howard; From the book “Free to Be … You and Me” conceived by Marlo Thomas & friends. Stage adaptation written by Douglas Love and Regina Safran. Orchestrations and arrangements by Jon... more...  Family Friendly | |
 Rainforest Adventures • Jan 12 - Mar 07Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Experience a day in the life of more than 30 exotic plants and animals in the amazing Amazon rainforest. An anaconda slithers through the shrubs, bats beat their wings in a glorious evening ballet, and howler... more... Family Friendly | |
 Tennis in Nablus • Jan 29 - Feb 21Alliance Theatre (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Palestine. 1939. Allegiances… and identities… are never what they seem. Under British colonial rule, two nations buckle under conflicting claims to their rightful land. And as the world explodes around... more... | |
 Ed Nicholson, trombone • Feb 09 onlyArts at Emory (Atlanta - Buckhead and North) Emory Facutly Artist Affiliate recital. more... | |
 Caught in the Web • Jan 21 - Feb 21Theatre in the Square (Marietta) The farce master is at his reckless best in this out-of-control outing. Past works Funny Money, Out of Order and Cash on Delivery have had audiences in a laughter uproar. A bigamist taxi driver's teenage son... more...  Mature Content | |
 Tales of Edgar Allan Poe • Feb 02 - Feb 21Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Adapted and directed by Bobby Box, in collaboration with Jon Ludwig 2009-10 New Directions Series Recommended for ages 12 and up Poe’s tortured psyche is resurrected among the ruins of a fallen house... more... Mature Content | |
 Good Boys and True • Jan 14 - Feb 13Actor's Express (Atlanta - All Other Atlanta) It’s the 1980s and the boys at St. Joe’s Prep School are clean cut, well bred, Ivy League-bound – and having a lot of sex. When a scandal involving one little videotape threatens to grow beyond... more... Mature Content Regional Premiere | |
 Romeo and Juliet • Feb 04 - Feb 28The New American Shakespeare Tavern (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) We invite you to join us for our 11th anniversary of performing this play about young lovers, feuding families and one Friar with good intentions. Discount tickets for this show are available thru AtlanTIX... more... | |
 Lunchtime in the Studio • Oct 15 - Apr 15Several Dancers Core (Decatur) Free dance performance with CORE Performance Company and free lunch from Decatur area restaurant sponsors. more... Family Friendly | |
 Salon • Oct 15 - Apr 15Several Dancers Core (Decatur) Join CORE Performance Company for a Salon evening in which the dancers will show parts of their newest works and involve the audience in dialogue about their creative process. more... | |
 Improv Revolution - Thursday Night Improv • Dec 10 - Dec 02Dad's Garage (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) The future of yesterday's improv tomorrow – today! Revolving improv formats, fresh faces and big ideas mark our ever–changing Thursday night testing ground for innovative and new improvisers. In addition to... more... Mature Content | |
 Student Concert Series • Feb 12 onlyGeorgia State University School of Music (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) A free, lunch-time concert featuring student performers from the School of Music. more... Family Friendly Student Show | |
| Ask Dr. Frapples - Friday NIght Improv • Dec 11 - Dec 03 Dad's Garage (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) Lie down on the couch, relax, and let Dr. Bob Frapples put your mind at ease. A Dear Abby-style improv show, audience members pose personal questions to Dr. Bob that he will answer in front of their very eyes.... more... Mature Content | |
 The Murder Room • Jan 29 - Feb 13Polk Street Players (Marietta) Written by Jack Sharkey, this tells the story of a proper British wife weighing all of her options in ridding herself of that pesky husband. A dimwit daughter, an American son-in-law to-be, a stuffed shirt... more... Family Friendly | |
 Griefers • Feb 05 - Feb 27Dad's Garage (Atlanta - All Other Atlanta) As defined by Wikipedia, a 'griefer' is someone who plays a video game in order to irritate and harass other players, rather than pursue game objectives. But what happens when someone from the gaming world... more... | |
.jpg) Baby - The Musical Comedy • Feb 12 - Feb 27Centerstage North Theatre (Marietta) Baby tells the story of 3 couples - The students, the 30-somethings and the mid-aged parents - on a University campus, who must deal with the rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal... more... Mature Content | |
 Shooting Star • Feb 12 - Mar 14Horizon Theatre Company (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) An unexpected meeting in a blizzard bound airport. Reed,a suit-and-tie with Blackberry, and Elana, a bohemian with rain stick, were once idealistic college lovers. Here they reconnect and share stories deep... more... Mature Content | |
 My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra • Jan 22 - Feb 14The Legacy Theatre (Tyrone) Conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson Book by Todd Olson Four Singers and live musicians take you on a trip down memory lane to honor on of the world's greatest performers! "Sinatra said that the secret... more... Family Friendly | |
 Platinum Chamionship Wrestling • Feb 05 - Feb 26Academy Theatre (Avondale Estates) What is the line between violence and performance art? Tickets available now! more... | |
 Parade • Feb 05 - Feb 14Theatre Arts Guild @ Georgia Perimeter College (Clarkston) Book by Alfred Uhry Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Stage and Music Direction by William J. Jarrett Set in Atlanta, in 1913, "Parade" is based on the tragic, true story of Leo Frank, a man wrongly... more... Mature Content | |
 Til Beth Do Us Part • Jan 15 - Feb 14The Rosewater Theatre (Roswell) By Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten In this side-splitting comic romp about marriage, career-driven Suzannah Hayden needs a lot more help on the home front than she's getting from her husband, Gibby.... more... | |
 Valentine's Day Love Songs, Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Noontime Series • Feb 12 onlyArts at Emory (Atlanta - All Other Atlanta) Frederic Chopin/Robert Schumann Bicentennial Celebration Series. Teresa Hopkin sings “Frauenliebe und Leben” and tenor Bradley Howard sings “Dichterliebe” with pianist Deborah Thoreson. more... | |
 Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ Live Cast • Jan 01 - Dec 25Lips 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... Mature Content | |
 Emory Annual Jazz Fest: John Clayton with Gary Motley • Feb 12 onlyArts at Emory (Atlanta - Buckhead and North) Emory’s Annual Jazz Fest Concert features bassist John Clayton with Gary Motley. Seven-time Grammy nominated bassist/composer/conductor John Clayton's talents are consistently requested by the movers and... more... | |
 Three Days of Rain • Feb 12 - Mar 06Onstage Atlanta (Decatur) by Richard Greenberg Direction by David Klein A romantic and creative mystery. In this tense and brittle reunion, much more is at stake than who gets the house. Brother and sister discover their father's... more... Mature Content | |
 The Fourposter • Jan 22 - Feb 14Stage Door Players (Dunwoody) Winner of the Tony Award as Best Play, this theatrical Valentine is a 35 year chronicle of a husband and wife beginning on their wedding night in 1890. They fret and quarrel, laugh and cry and make love in the... more... | |
 Mauricio Kagel: Film Music, Music Performance, Performance Film • Feb 12 onlyGeorgia State University School of Music (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Mauricio Kagel, the German-Argentine composer who died in 2008, is most noted for his theatrical contributions to classical music performance. The evening will offer two of Kagel's short films, Unter Strom and... more... Family Friendly | |
 Cinderella • Feb 04 - Feb 14Atlanta Ballet (Atlanta - All Other Atlanta) It's the classic fairy tale you grew up with - the kind and generous Fairy Godmother, the wicket Stepmother, and of course, the ugly and jealous Stepsisters. Sure to be a hit with all ages, come experience the... more... Family Friendly | |
 University Choral Ensembles • Feb 13 onlyGeorgia State University School of Music (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) University Singers, Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus Jeffery Wall and Patrick Freer, conductors "Love & Pizen: Songs of Love and Disdain In Many Derivations." Featuring works by Kirke Mechem, Samuel Barber,... more... Family Friendly | |
 Murder, She Improvised • Jan 02 - Feb 20Dad's Garage (Atlanta - Little 5 Points, Grant Park, East Atlanta) Something is afoot at The Sunny Arse Hotel! And only Sir John Holmes can get to the bottom of these devious (and hilarious) murder mysteries. Will his keen mind and the audience's help be enough? Probably not!... more... | |
 Alice in Wonderland • Jan 16 - Feb 13The Blackwell Playhouse (Marietta) Join Alice on her adventure to a land of fantastical creatures and events when she falls down a very magical rabbit hole. The Mad Hatter, White Rabbit, Caterpillar, Queen of Hearts, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum... more... Family Friendly | |
 Aurora Theatre Swing Nights featuring Metro Jazz Club • Aug 07 - Apr 10Aurora Theatre (Lawrenceville) Aurora Theatre Swing Nights featuring Metro Jazz Club Aurora Theatre continues our crowd pleasing concert series, Swing Night at Aurora Theatre featuring the Metro Jazz Club, with a show on Saturday... more... | |
 Dee Dee Bridgewater presents Lady Day: A Billie Holiday Tribute • Feb 13 onlyRialto Center for the Arts (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Few artists so expertly command the range and depth of Dee Dee Bridgewater, the recipient of a Tony Award, two Grammy Awards, and France’s top honor, the Victoire de la Musique. Dee Dee first made a name for... more... | |
 Jake's Women • Jan 15 - Feb 14Kudzu Playhouse (Roswell) America’s premier comic playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by... more... | |
 Abbado is back with Beethoven & Mozart • Feb 11 - Feb 13Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) A worthy successor to the great Classical-era music of Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven's First Symphony points the way toward his revolutionary later works. Mozart’s Selected Church Sonatas and Coronation Mass... more... | |
 Love Letters • Feb 05 - Feb 14Kudzu Playhouse (Roswell) Love Letters is directed by Mercury and brought to the Kudzu Stage by Gypsy Theatre Company. THE STORY: Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, both born to wealth and position, are childhood friends... more... | |
 Joshua Bell, violin, Jeremy Denk, piano • Feb 13 onlySpivey Hall (Morrow) Joshua Bell has captured the public's attention like no other classical violinist of his time. "Bell," proclaims Gramophone, "is dazzling." His inter-pretations of a wide repertoire are as compelling as his... more... Family Friendly | |
 Sketchworks' Super Solid Gold Mega Hits! • Feb 12 - Mar 13Sketchworks (Decatur) Sketchworks presents a "Best Of" Show to kick off its 2010 Season. Some of the funniest sketches from years past presented with a stellar cast, including special guest, Kenny Alfonso, and Sketchworks favorite... more... Mature Content | |
 Emory Annual Jazz Fest: Emory Big Band, Gary Motley, director • Feb 13 onlyArts at Emory (Atlanta - Buckhead and North) Gary Motley directs the Emory Big Band in a free performance as part of the Emory Annual Jazz Fest. more... Student Show | |
 TheatreSports - Saturday Night Improv • Dec 05 - Dec 04Dad'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... Mature Content | |
 Flyin' West • Feb 12 - Feb 21Lionheart Theatre Company (Norcross) by Pearl Cleage Directed by Tanya Carroll The critically acclaimed drama which tells the story of a courageous group of pioneer women - former slaves who settled in the all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.... more... Mature Content | |
 University Symphony Orchestra • Feb 14 onlyGeorgia State University School of Music (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Michael Palmer, conductor Special Guests: Christina Smith, principal flute, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; William Pu, violin, associate concertmaster/acting concertmaster, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra A concert... more... Family Friendly | |
 The Beaux Stratagem • Feb 09 - Feb 20Gainesville Theatre Alliance (Gainesville) This Restoration farce combines rogues, rascals, flirts and fools in a rollicking romantic concoction. Two young gentlemen of leisure run out of money and leave high society to pursue their fortunes in the more... more... | |
 Thimblerig Circus • Feb 12 - Feb 14Academy Theatre (Avondale Estates) Thimblerig Circus presents a show that looks at Valentine’s Day from both sides! The show will feature fire eating, singing, beds of nails and more! Guests include Jennifer Teeter and the Blast Off... more... | |
 M*A*S*H • Jan 30 - Feb 14The Blackwell Playhouse (Marietta) Blackwell Playhouse is proud to produce M*A*S*H by Tim Kelly from the book by Richard Hooker. This is a wild, free-flowing story familiar to fans of the book, film and TV program. M*A*S*H is set during... more... Mature Content | |
 Brownie Points • Feb 03 - Feb 28Theatrical Outfit (Atlanta - Downtown, Midtown) Written by Janece Shaffer, this new comic-drama by the popular Atlanta playwright masterfully mirrors modern families and society through the multicultural mayhem of a girls' club camp-out in the north Georgia... more... Mature Content | |
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