Each week, ArtsATL delivers a critic’s short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one discipline in the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and culture. Every week, we’ll present a different art form. :: Now open Jamele Wright Sr.’s We Are the Dreamers of Dreams at September Gray...
The Atlanta Opera’s peppy and graceful staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute provided a joyful conclusion to the high drama of Election Day Tuesday night. A first-rate cast delivered Mozart’s last opera with luminous singing and nimble comic acting at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center through November 10. The 1791 opera is famously a rather...
One of classical music’s leading chamber ensembles, the Jerusalem Quartet, will perform at The Temple in Midtown on Nov. 11 in a wide-ranging program from Mozart to Shostakovich. The Israeli […]
For some artists, Atlanta is a giant canvas. And that seems to be true for VAYNE, one of our city’s most notorious, admiree and internationally recognized graffiti-style writers. You’ve likely […]
On the “City Lights” series “Speaking of Music,” local musicians share their work and stories in their own voices. In today’s segment, we feature the Atlanta band Internet Islands. Vocalist […]
Three of Atlanta’s experienced movement artists, Corian Ellisor, Alejandro Abarca and Nicholas Goodly, teamed up with newcomer Olivia Anderson in Ellisor’s new introspective work about joy and belonging. :: Olivia Anderson never imagined she would make her professional debut performing in the choreographer’s backyard. She probably didn’t expect the audience for the two-show run of...
The Suzi Bass Awards drum up excitement in the Atlanta professional theater community every fall, with nominees waiting for November’s big reveal to find out how they fared. This year, Horizon Theatre’s hit musical Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 was the most nominated production for the 2024 Suzi Bass Awards, earning 15...
Seinfeld’s Michael Richards will appear at the Book Festival of the MJCCA in Atlanta to discuss his new memoir. What does the book say about the star who’s been out of the public eye since the racist rant that ended his career? :: Actor Michael Richards is best known for two things: his role as...
The joyous, madcap 1960s fever dream of “Hairspray” is coming to Out Front Theatre in what the company says will be an extravaganza. The hit musical, which has won 8 […]
Five staged readings written by retired Emory professor Dr. Mel Konner are scheduled for November 6 through November 10 at 7 Stages Black Box Theater. The works were hand-selected by Konner’s Emory colleague, Vincent “Vinnie” Murphy, theater professor and founder of the university’s Brave New Works series. Murphy is also directing the Mel Konner Play...
Laura Ardan is an illustrious artist who served as principal clarinetist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) during her 39-year tenure, holding the endowed Robert Shaw Chair. Still, more recognition […]
Each month, ArtsATL will publish a column by Alexandra Shatalova Prior, a professional oboeist who has performed nationally and internationally and is now an artist affiliate at Atlanta’s Emory University. In each column, she will highlight a few of the most interesting aspects of an upcoming work, using videos to illustrate what to listen for....