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A Song for Coretta
01/17/2008 – 02/24/2008
A new play by Pearl Cleage
Director: Crystal Dickinson
Five women, at the end of the line to see Coretta Scott King lay in state, find laughter and hope in this moving and unexpectedly funny new play.

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Rescheduled: Fundraising Gala
02/17/2008
The Honorable Lisa Borders, City Council President, and Mrs. Evelyn Lowery host an exquisite evening in honor of 7 Stages’ production of A Song for Coretta.

Drinks begin at 5pm at the theater, followed by the 6pm performance opening of Pearl Cleage’s powerful, poignant, and funny new play about five women who meet in line to pay their respects to the late Coretta Scott King.

Following the performance, drinks and dinner will round out the evening during an Author’s Reception with the cast and crew of this important new play.

VIP tickets are $150 and regular tickets are $100. VIP tickets have preferred seating during the performance. Contact Bri Milton at 404-522-4755 to reserve yours today.   more…

Las Chicas of the 3.5 Inch Floppies
02/28/2008 – 03/02/2008
An American premiere by Luis Enrique Gutierrez Ortiz Monasterio
Director: John Tiffany
“This beautiful and brutal show prints itself on the memory like a kitsch souvenir of something cheap in cash terms, yet also infinitely precious.” – The Scotsman

The draw of a Tijuana nightclub colors the choices of two desperate women in this dark comedy charged with sex, drugs, and music. Performed in Spanish with English supertitles.   more…

Kodac Harrison presents:
Reach for the Moon
03/20/2008 – 03/23/2008
An original evening of theatre by Kodac Harrison
Director: Del Hamilton
Atlanta spoken word artist Kodac Harrison takes his gritty, raw, and powerful poetry to new heights in this original production that combines his words with music and dance. Other featured artists include Nick Longo, Kristin Markiton, Erin Weller, and Blake Dalton.   more…

In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
04/24/2008 – 05/17/2008
By Bernard-Marie Koltes
Director: Eric Vigner
The world premiere of a new translation by Ismail ibn Conner more…

CONCERT for Youth Creates!
06/27/2008
Please join us for an evening of film, art music and entertainment featuring alumni of the youth creates ensemble and a collection of local artists including:
Jahi Kearse
Abuwan
Baba Olutunde
Naomi Lavender & the Gash

$30 – Wine Tasting (6pm) and Concert (7pm)
$10 – Concert only (7pm)

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Five weeks ago, twenty teenagers came into a room, mostly as strangers. They danced. They wrote. They laughed. They got serious about some issues. They learned from their differences. They each shared with each other something very personal. Now they’re ready to share it with you.   more…

Beckett’s Memories
09/14/2006 – 10/08/2006
A evening of one act plays by Samuel Beckett
Director: Walter Asmus
Featuring Krapp’s Last Tape and Rockaby

What’s a memory worth? An evening of one act plays by Samuel Beckett examine how and why we hold onto our memories. German director Walter Asmus, who directed 7 Stages’ exquisite 2004 production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, returns from Germany to direct an all-star Atlanta cast.   more…

Not Merely Players co- presents:
Struck Dumb
10/12/2006 – 10/22/2006
Jean-Claude van Itallie and Joseph Chaikin
Director: Del Hamilton
Joseph Chaikin and Jean-Claude van Itallie’s one-character classic, Struck Dumb is a play about the day in the life of a man with aphasia, a condition characterized by loss of speech communication ability. Actor Gene Gabriel Moore, Artistic Director of Not Merely Players, who is himself aphasic after having suffered a stroke, plays the central character Adnan.   more…

Vincent and I
10/26/2006 – 10/30/2006
An American premiere adapted from the play Angel of Death
Director: Karolina Spaic
If there was a modern artist who saw the challenge of making his art fit into the world around him, it was Vincent Van Gogh. Through this new multimedia solo performance piece, audiences around the world have been drawn back into Van Gogh’s world through the eyes of an ‘Angel,’ whose understanding of Van Gogh evolves into obsession.   more…

My Left Breast
02/01/2007 – 02/25/2007
A new staging of the Obie Award-winning play by Susan Miller
Director: Melissa Foulger
Winner of the Obie Award for Best Play

One of the most engrossing and personal plays to address the issue of breast cancer in recent memory, My Left Breast, in this fresh three-character restaging, follows the journey of a woman who refuses to become a victim in her battle with cancer. In fast succession, Susan goes from being married and a mother, to being a single parent and a lesbian, then to being a cancer patient, a fighter, and finally a whole person – even without her left breast. An Atlanta premiere. more…

Zora
02/06/2007 – 02/24/2007
By Laurence Holder
Director: Del Hamilton
Zora is a sharp, inspiring one-woman show that tells the story of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, from her upbringing in Florida, to her education at Howard University, to her role as one of the Harlem Renaissance’s ‘leading ladies.’

Performances are suitable for families and students grades 5 and up.   more…

Karibu
03/08/2007 – 03/11/2007
An American premiere created by Peru’s Teatro del Milenio
Director: Luis Sandoval
Visit this production’s show page for information in English

Vibrant, apasionado, teatrodanza es la marca de Peru’s Teatro del Milenio. Como Bring in Da Noise / Bring in Da Funk hizo para la experiencia Africano-Americano, su producción aclamada de Karibu sigue al viaje para la identidad y a comunidad entre afro-Latinos de la reunión de las dos culturas en Suramérica colonial a las luchas que existen en las aceras del hoy. Karibu es realizado en español con supertitulos ingleses.   more…

University of Gerogia & 7 Stages presents:
Hamletmachine
03/14/2007 – 03/18/2007
By Heiner Müller
Director: Del Hamilton
Heiner Müller, Germany’s great post-modern playwright, reacts to the political collapse of post-WWII Eastern Europe in this retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The political collapse echoed for him in the psychological collapse of Prince Hamlet as he struggles to cope with the murder of his father and wedding of his mother to the apparent murderer, now king of Denmark. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, as Hamlet says, and Müller offers a graphic image of a world rotting from the inside out, ecology mimicking the political state, in a downward spiral to the next Ice Age.   more…

HERE Arts Center presents:
Disposable Men
03/22/2007 – 03/25/2007
Written and performed by James Scruggs
Director: Kristin Marting
This is richly interactive live multimedia one-man show comes to Atlanta direct from its sold-out off-Broadway run. Hailed by the New York Times as a “slyly funny play about racism,” Disposable Men explores the uncanny relationship that African American men and classic Hollywood monsters like King Kong and Frankenstein share: first, an unfounded fear of them, and then, the imaginative ways in which they are killed. Using unexpected comic twists and turns to track through a history of lynchings and riots to contemporary police brutality, James Scruggs’ tour de force asks why today the media tells us that black men are so disposable.   more…

The Violet Hour
04/26/2007 – 05/20/2007
A regional premiere by Richard Greenberg
Director: Joe Gfaller
From the playwright of the Tony Award winning Take Me Out comes a new play that “may just be Greenberg’s finest” (Variety Magazine). Fame, fortune, and friendship all ride on a decision John Pace Seavering must make as he starts a publishing house in New York after World War One: what will be his first book? Torn between manuscripts by two people he loves in very different ways and an unexpected vision of the future, John is forced to decide at what price he can ignore tomorrow to live in the promise of today. With wit, humor, and heart, The Violet Hour uncovers the hidden dangers and the hidden laughter in the truths that we closet… even from ourselves.   more…

A Number
10/13/2005 – 11/06/2005
A regional premiere by Caryl Churchill
Director: Joe Gfaller
Your father has kept a secret from you your whole life: as a small child you were cloned. This is the news one man must face in Caryl Churchill’s explosive new drama. As Bernard confronts his father and his new “brothers,” he sets off a chain of events that forces him to stare down an unsettling question: Who are you to yourself if, to the rest of the world, all you are is A Number?   more…

Far Away
10/27/2005 – 11/20/2005
A regional premiere by Caryl Churchill
Director: Melissa Foulger
What if the cries you heard in the night as a child were real?

A young girl is taught to ignore an act of violence as a child. As she grows up in a world where alliances shift, deception is treacherous, and even words are at war with themselves, she discovers love may be the only salvation from our worst fears. The time is long ago. The place is Far Away. Or is it?

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George and Martha
01/12/2006 – 01/15/2006
A regional premiere created by Karen Finley
When George and Martha step out of Edward Albee’s Who?s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and into a dingy present day hotel room for a tryst, they come to bear a striking resemblance to a certain president and a certain interior design diva. If there are two icons of America in the early 21st century, it’s George and Martha, naked (and we do mean naked) and uncensored.   more…

Come on In My Kitchen
02/16/2006 – 03/12/2006
A world premiere by Robert Earl Price
Director: Del Hamilton
Robert Johnson made a legendary deal with the devil that catapulted him to celebrity as the country’s greatest blues musician. And then he was poisoned to death by a jealous husband. This multimedia world premiere places Johnson back at the site of his deal to find some of today’s African-American celebrities who are less than satisfied with the outcome of their own bargains. Could you face the consequences if you could have it all, or would you too sing the blues if the devil asked you to Come on in My Kitchen?   more…

Double Edge Theatre Company presents:
The UnPOSSESSED
03/16/2006 – 03/26/2006
created by Double Edge Theatre Company
Director: Stacy Klein
If you could live in the landscapes of your imagination, would you leave this world behind? Don Quixote de la Mancha, with his trusty sidekick Sancho Panza, does just that in Cevantes� world-famous novel Don Quixote. In honor of the book�s 400th anniversary, 7 Stages presents a joyous riff on Cevantes� original mad quest for hope amidst a reality spinning out of control. Fusing popular and circus arts, including acrobatics, puppetry, aerial theatre and commedia, with live original music, the story of Don Quixote never felt so fresh.   more…

Nickel and Dimed
04/27/2006 – 05/28/2006
Adapted from the book by Barbara Ehrenreich by Joan Holden
Director: Del Hamilton
Nickel and Dimed is an eye-opening new comedy about one woman’s journey to go ‘undercover’ and live at the minimum wage. From waitstaff, to retail, to housekeeping and beyond, her revealing adventure searches for humor and dignity within the flipside of American prosperity.

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La Casa de Rigoberta Mira Al Sur
11/11/2004 – 11/14/2004
World Premiere written and directed by Aristides Vargas
Por information en espanol, clique aqui.

Created by Grupo de Teatro
Justo Rufino Garay from Nicaragua

A young girl watches her family mourn her death from the other side. Guided by her grandmother, she discovers that for them to heal, she too must let go. In the spirit of Alice Sebold?s moving The Lovely Bones, La Casa de Rigoberta mira al Sur gives poetry to grief and finds comedy in the strange ways in which we create closure.

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La Casa de Rigoberta mira al Sur
11/11/2004 – 11/14/2004
Dramaturg, Aristides Vargas
Director: Aristides Vargas
Rigoberta es una jovensita quien muere antes de su tiempo. Desde el otro lado, mira como sus padres luchan con el dolor de su p�rdida.

De manera que va creando una vida nueva por s� misma acompa�ada por su difunta abuelita, Rigoberta descubre que para que sus padres puedan dejar de sufrir, ella tiene que dejarlos ir y pasar al otro mundo.   more…

Skinwalkers
01/27/2005 – 02/20/2005
World Premiere by Murray Mednick
Director: Del Hamilton
The intrusion of a Los Angeles couple researching a documentary on sacred Navajo grounds unleashes the wrath of a haunted spirit in Murray Mednick’s heart-pounding new play.   more…

Delta Air Lines presents:
FLOP
02/24/2005 – 03/06/2005
Regional Premiere Created by Pig Iron Theatre Company
Director: Dan Rothenberg
A clown play. Performed without words. Mostly.

The story of FLOP is deceptively simple: three girls accidentally break the universe. Millie, Snow, and Fleur Sauvage discover that they can control time with the clock that hangs on their wall. But as they move back and forth between past and future, they unintentionally pull time free from its moorings. Now it is up to the trio of unlikely heroines to save the world.

“Clown heaven” raves the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Flop… takes us on a voyage of comic euphoria… wildly original.”   more…

Boston Marriage
03/10/2005 – 04/10/2005
A regional premiere by David Mamet
Director: Joe Gfaller
NOW EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 10TH!

At the turn of the century, there were few things appropriate for two women to share. Luckily, Anna and Claire aren’t terribly appropriate women.

The following performances are currently sold out: March 11 8pm, March 12 8pm, March 17 8pm, March 19 8pm, March 25 8pm, March 26 8pm, March 31 10am, March 31 8pm, April 1 8pm, April 2 8pm, April 3 5pm. The box office will take names for the waiting list in person an hour before each performance.   more…

This Jazz Century
04/07/2005 – 04/10/2005
A Jazz Concert Performed by Standard Deviation
For one weekend only, sail an easy glide through the music that made the 20th century, as styled by vocalist Janna Nelson, keyboardist Scott Hooker, bassist Ben Gettys, and saxophonist Jeff Crompton.   more…

Wizzer Pizzer
05/05/2005 – 05/29/2005
World Premiere by Amy Wheeler
Director: Melissa Foulger
Cross over the rainbow into Dr. Nora’s Reparative Therapy Clinic. Here, gays learn how to be born again straight. Kevin, a drag queen performing Judy Garland, has just checked in, depressed after losing his latest amateur drag contest. So has Jack, a straight guy who bears a striking resemblance to Kevin’s friend Kandi, a drag king. But when Jack finds love there with the poster girl for ?cured lesbians, all Oz breaks loose. Wizzer Pizzer is a wild, outrageous, trippy, modern ride back out the Yellow Brick Road. Hey, if the ruby slippers fit   more…

Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women
10/30/2003 – 11/09/2003
Cultural Odyssey
Big Butt Girls, Hard Headed Women is based on the lives and times of real women who are incaecerated behind bars. The performance utilizes theater movement, and song to anchor words born out of the silence that is so popular to women who are waiting: women waiting for bail, for mail, for the latest, word concerning her child, money from her man, the next visit from her sister, her mother, or the word from her lawyer. The theatrics are based on the question: “Is there a way to retrieve the lives of our sisters and their families?”   more…

The Vessels Project
11/28/2003 – 12/07/2003
Lelavision
Marvel as these whimsical acrobats use suspended vessels to transform ancient music into a vibrant contemporay experience with aerial dance and pugnacious percussion. Make Lelavision the beginning of your family’s holiday season – previews start the day after Thanksgiving.   more…

Q100.5 FM presents:
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls On The Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (A Rave-Fable)
01/22/2004 – 02/15/2004
World Premiere by Caridad Svich
Director: Melissa Foulger
Reignite the fire in one of the most compelling tales in Greek tragedy as ancient Troy is hurled into a modern-day rave. Lights, music and DJs spin out of control together in a celebration of the flashes of youth that fade too fast. How do you flee an inescapable fate? And once you’re submerged inside the circuit party, why flee at all? Take a trip into a night of cowardice, lies, celebrity, ambition, and sacrifice. And love. Above all, love. Deep, passionate, screw-up love.   more…

Waiting for Godot 2004
03/04/2004 – 04/04/2004
By Samuel Beckett
Director: Walter Asmus
In 1952, theatre changed forever when two hobos in battered boots walked on stage in this ground-breaking comedy. Sooner or later, something must be coming for them. And so they wait, and wait, and wait – while nothing seems to happen. Ever. But in that nothing is everything. In that nothing is life in all its sorrow and its glory and all its desperate humanity. Rediscover this poignant classic in a landmark production starring Del Hamilton and Don Finney.   more…

“MASTER HAROLD” …and the boys
04/22/2004 – 05/16/2004
Set in 1950′s apartheid-stricken South Africa, ” Master Harold” centers on the longtime relationship between a 17-year-old white boy and the middle aged black men who are servants at his parents’ St. Georgea Park Tea Room. On a rainy afternoon, Sam and Willie practice their ballroom dancing at work when the young man enters and sets off a storm of fond memories and scholarly debate while underlying racial and class tensions brew.   more…

The Medicine Show
05/20/2004 – 05/23/2004
NOVA Performance Group
When Manhatten Transfer meets down-home Appalachia, you’ll find the sublime fusion of NOVA Performance Group, one of Atlanta’s hottest collections of singers, songwriters, and storytellers. Under the guise of an old-fashioned carnival, fall under the spell of barkers, sideshow folk, and playful puppets as Clint Thornton, Bryan Mercer, and julie Dansby scamper through a gamut of musical styles. Expect a little Stephen Foster, a little Eartha Kitt, and a whole lot of old-time religion. As we close our season, renew your spirit and your soul in this one-week-only limited engagement. After all, a good time is the healthiest dose of medicine there is.   more…

Maps of Forbidden Remembrance
10/17/2002 – 10/20/2002
adopted from Carlos Fuente’s novella Constancia (World Premiere)
Director: Dijana Milosevic
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Rhythm of the Landscape
11/28/2002 – 12/07/2002
Lelavision
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HUSH: Composing Blind Tom Wiggins
01/16/2003 – 01/23/2003
Robert Earl Price, paywright-in-residence
Director: Del Hamilton
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Blue Ridge Moonshine Flyer
02/20/2003 – 03/23/2003
World Premiere by Wade Marbough, adapted by Bill Fleming
Director: Del Hamilton
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Copenhagen
02/27/2003 – 03/16/2003
Michael Frayn
Director: Joe Gfaller
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Us
04/03/2003 – 04/13/2003
Written and performed by Tim Miller
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Broken Glass
05/15/2003 – 06/15/2003
Arthur Miller
Director: Joseph Chaiken
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Maps of Forbidden Remembrance
10/17/2003 – 10/20/2003
Director: Dijana Milosevic
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If God Came Down
10/11/2001 – 10/14/2001
Written and performed by Jo Carson
After a bite from a brown recluse spider, Carson began skeptically exploring the non-traditional ways we heal ourselves. If God Came Down examines the unexpected shifts in our lives that change how we see the world and how we choose to live in it. Carson is also known for her work as a commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.   more…

Relentless
10/25/2001 – 11/03/2001
Written and performed by Double Edge Theatre
This is the story of a woman and her search for independence, while boldly facing her past, her partners, and herself. Told by eight fantastic performers intertwining music, poetry, circus imagery, puppetry and clowning to create a piece a theatrical fantasia. Recommended for patrons 15 and older.   more…

Banging Bamboozles
11/14/2001 – 11/25/2001
Conceived by Lelavision
Through a powerful surge of energy and sound that is seemingly pulled from thin air, Banging Bamboozles presents a new genre of musical dance that achieves the awesome integration of music and movements.   more…

HUSH: Composing Blind Tom Wiggins
02/02/2002 – 03/03/2002
Robert Earl Price, 7 Stages playwright-in-residence (World Premi
Director: Del Hamilton
Hush is the story of Thomas Greene Wiggins, also known as Blind Tom, a slave from Colombus, Georgia. Tom was a blind and possibly autistic piano player who demonstrated prodigal talent while being billed as a freak. He played vaudeville, toured Europe, and travelled around the U.S., earning over $100,000 a year for his masters and the Confederacy. Throughout his life he remained the property of his owners, even after the Emancipation.   more…

The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
03/06/2002 – 03/31/2002
The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta is again in residence and will present another dynamic original play with music and dance. On the heels of several international residencies and festivals, YEA brings another one-of-a-kind professional show to Atlanta.   more…

A Delicate Balance
05/09/2002 – 06/02/2002
Edward Albee
Director: Joseph Chaiken
The return of an alcoholic sister, a daughter escaping her fourth marriage, and friends facing an unavoidable terror force Agnes and Tobias to face the disturbance breaking up their carefully constructed lives. Trapped in the chaos, they struggle to maintain their own delicate balance. Directed by the legendary Jeseph Chaiken, this Pulitzer Prize winning play “strikes a balance between wisdom and folly, and truth and its consequences.”   more…

B.B. in L.A.
06/27/2002 – 06/30/2002
One day, a playwright by the name of Bertolt Brecht – B.B. – and his actress-wife decided to move to the show biz capital of the world. Searching for the meaning of art, they instead found themselves in a LA LA Land, where their style of politically committed avant-garde theatre was received by a culture that, frankly, couldn’t give a damn. Hilarious misunderstandings, cultural confusions, and the songs of Kurt Weill accompanied by a toy piano, B.B. in L.A. is a combination of inspired theatricality, innovative puppetry, and big ideas wrapped up in one tiny little puppet package.   more…

Texts for Nothing
01/02/2000 – 09/05/2000
Joseph Chaiken and Steve kent, from Beckett
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Double Track
01/03/2000 – 09/05/2000
Beckett, adapted by Beppie Blankert
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The Song Trilogy
01/05/2000 – 09/05/2000
Double Edge Theatre
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If It Was Easy
01/06/2000 – 09/05/2000
Stewart F. Lane and Ward Morehouse III (World Premiere)
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City for Sale
01/02/2001 – 09/05/2001
Gateway Performance Theatre
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Hot Flashes, Power Surges & Private Summers
01/03/2001 – 09/05/2001
Rhodessa Jones
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Black Battles with Dogs
01/05/2001 – 09/05/2001
Bernard-Marie Koltes
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Preaching to the Perverted
01/06/2001 – 09/05/2001
Holly Hughes
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Sweat
02/03/2001 – 02/25/2001
Walter Kefuoe Chakela (American Premiere)
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In Berlin
10/30/2001 – 11/05/2001
Jim Grimsley (World Premiere)
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My Life and Times
01/03/1999 – 09/05/1999
Quentin Crisp
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Herstory of Porn
01/04/1999 – 09/05/1999
Annie Sprinkle
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Faust
01/05/1999 – 09/05/1999
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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States of Shock
01/27/1999 – 02/20/1999
Sam Shepard
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A Glorietta
01/04/2000 – 09/05/2000
Rebecca Ranson (World Premiere)
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The American Chestnut
01/02/1998 – 09/05/1998
Karen Finley
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Psalm 13
01/07/1998 – 09/05/1998
The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
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Shirts and Skin
01/08/1998 – 09/05/1998
Tim Miller
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In the Jungle of Cities
02/18/1998 – 03/15/1998
Bertolt Brecht (Commision of new translation)
Revenge. Retaliation. Racial struggles. Is this the 20′s or the 90′s ? Falk Richter/director and Martin Kraemer/designerjtwo of Germany’s hottest talents, brings to life Brecht’s timely story of the harsh realities of the American Dream. Set in the 1920′s Chicago, two men live only to destroy each other in a jazzy story that question how much times have really changed. A new translation by Philip Boehm.   more…

The Bald Soprano
04/01/1998 – 04/26/1998
Eugene Ionesco
A Sold-out sensation in New York! Chaikin re-creates with Atlanta actors his wonderful interpretation of this gem by Ionesco, the genius playwright whose comic pieces offer insight into everyday life. This hysterical comedy pokes fun at everone for our basic inability to communicate with each other.   more…

Dream Boy
06/10/1998 – 07/12/1998
Jim Grimsley
Dream Boy moves between the harsh realities of Nathan�s circumstances and his ability to create and escape into a vivid fantasy life. This theme of reality versus illusion is, of course, a major concern of most of the great writers of this century. It is truly uplifting that the dreary and dark situations which Nathan confronts are ultimately deflated by hope and an enduring relationship.   more…

God of Vengeance
10/28/1998 – 11/22/1998
Scholem Asch, adapted by Stephen Fife
Co-produced with the Jewish Theatre of the South

This Yiddish theater classic (preformed in English) follows the double life of a brother owner (Yankel) struggling to insulate his family from his immoral business. To insure his daughter�s �purity� Yankel commissions a torah scroll for his home beliving it will protect her from the sin that surround them. God of Vengeance resonates with powerful questions about atonement, parental responsibility, morality, and man�s relationship with God.   more…

AT&T and NationsBank presents:
Almost Like Being
04/01/1999 – 04/26/1999
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Director: Joseph Chaikin
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Whispering to Horses
01/04/1997 – 09/05/1997
World Premiere by Jo Carson
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The Owl Answers and Sun
01/06/1997 – 09/05/1997
Adrienne Kennedy
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Tango Palace
01/07/1997 – 09/05/1997
Maria Irene Fornes
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Orphans
01/08/1997 – 09/05/1997
Lyle Kessler
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Times
01/22/1997 – 02/16/1997
The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
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All My Sons
03/12/1997 – 04/13/1997
Arthur Miller
All My Sons is Aurthur Miller’s award willing drama of one man who did the wrong thing for all the right reasons. “Remember he was falsely accused once and it put him through hell. How would you behave if you were faced with the same thing again.”
Legendary director Joseph Chaikin’s intimate production brings to life a fascinaing tapestry of lies and self-deception.   more…

Eternal Curse
09/10/1997 – 10/05/1997
Adapted from Manuel Puig (US premiere, tour to London, Amsterdam
Co-production with Onafhankelijk Toneel

Fresh from a wildly succesful European tour, Eternal Curse comes to Atlanta for its US premier. Like Kiss the Spider Woman, this show is a psychological thriller. Two men, one South American, the other African American, weave a scorching web of deceit and intrigue as they try to unravel the puzzle of the other’s life.   more…

My Mother’s Courage
01/02/1996 – 02/02/1996
U.S Premiere by George Tabori
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School House Rocks
01/03/1996 – 02/03/1996
The Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
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Alleen
01/04/1996 – 02/04/1996
U.S. Premiere by Onafhanklijk Toneel
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Blue Monk
01/05/1996 – 02/05/1996
World Premiere by Robert Earl Price (Co-commision by Cultural Ol
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When the World Was Green
01/06/1996 – 02/06/1996
World Premiere by Sam Shepard and Joe Chaiken (Co-commission wit
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Survival Arts Project: A Free Zone for Artists
01/07/1996 – 02/07/1996
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1969 Terminal 1996
01/08/1996 – 02/08/1996
World Premiere by Susan Yankowitz
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Rosa de Dos Aromas
01/09/1996 – 02/09/1996
U.S Premiere by Emilio Carballido (in Spanish)
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It’s a Wonderful Deluxe Holiday on Ice (Without the Ice)
01/10/1996 – 02/10/1996
Deluxe Vaudeville Orchestra
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Malinche
01/04/1995 – 02/04/1995
World Premiere by Henriette Brouwers
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Endgame
01/05/1995 – 02/05/1995
Samuel Beckett
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Riffs
01/06/1995 – 02/06/1995
Bill Harris
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Baby, Jesus! and Freeze
01/07/1995 – 02/07/1995
Murray Mednick
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U.S./Netherlands Touring and Exchange Project
01/26/1995 – 01/29/1995
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Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
02/09/1995 – 03/12/1995
Frank McGuinness, in collaboratin with Theatre Gael
At first it seems they have nothing in common, except thier cell. Adam
(Damon Pooser) is an American doctor, Edward (John Stephens) an Irish journalist, Michael (Stuart Culpepper) a British professor. To break the “bloody boredom,” they engage in imaginary horse races or movies or tennis matches. To “maintain a semblance of civility,” they take turns dictating make-believe letters to their loved ones. In the course of “sticking it out together,” they’re often on one another’s nerves, walking a thin line between “making conversation, and passing judgement,” but they ultimately discover certain universal bonds– the promise that “all is not forgotten,” the struggle to “remember the sound of singing birds.”   more…

Veneno Para Mi Marido
01/03/1994 – 02/03/1994
Alfonso Paso
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House of Balls
01/04/1994 – 02/04/1994
World Premiere by Patty Lynch
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Antigone in New York
01/05/1994 – 02/05/1994
Janusz Glowacki
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Max and Milli
01/06/1994 – 02/06/1994
U.S. Premiere by Volker Ludwig
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Night Sky
09/09/1993
Susan Yankowitz
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Angel Works
09/09/1993
Sam Shepard, Joe Chaikin, Edward Albee
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Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill Thomas Hearings
09/09/1993
Mame Hunt
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Sturm und Wurm
09/09/1993
U.S. Premiere by Thomas Ahrens
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U.S./Netherlands Touring and Exchange Project
01/02/1994 – 02/02/1994
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Waiting for Godot 1992
09/09/1992
Samuel Beckett
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Vivisections from the Blown Mind
09/09/1992
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My Children! My Africa!
09/09/1992
Athol Fugard
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U.S./Netherlands Touring & Exchange Project
09/09/1993
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Belle Ives
09/09/1991
World Premiere by Jim Grimsley
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Daytrips
09/09/1991
Jo Catson
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Skin of Our Teeth
09/09/1991
Thornton Wilder
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21st Century Radio Hour
09/09/1991
World Premiere by Boyd Lewis
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Carmen Kittel
09/09/1991
U.S. Premiere by Georg Seidel
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Tiny Tim Is Dead
09/09/1991
World Premiere by Barbara Lebow
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Yardbird’s Vamp
09/09/1990
Robert Earl Price
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Cry of the Mantis
09/09/1990
U.S. Premiere by Ralph Gunther Monnhau
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Haiti – A Dream
09/09/1990
World Premiere by Karen Sunde
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The Orange Earth
09/09/1990
U.S. Premiere by Adam Small
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White People
09/09/1989
World Premiere by Jim Grimsley
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Heartache Heroine
09/09/1989
World Premiere by Celeste Miller
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Mud
09/09/1989
Maria Irene Fornes
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Dutchman
09/09/1989
Amiri Baraka
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Der Park
09/09/1989
U.S. Premiere by Botho Strauss
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Math and Aftermath
09/09/1988
World Premiere by Jim Grimsley
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Zurama
09/09/1988
World Premiere by Julie Kearns
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Bananaland
09/09/1988
World Premiere by George King and Ruby Lerner
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Macbeth
09/09/1988
William Shakespeare
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Cane’s Theme
09/09/1988
World Premiere by Robert Earl Price
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Streetlife and Unity
09/09/1988
World Premiere by Veronika Nowag-Jones
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The Alchemist
09/09/1987
Ben Johnson, in collaboration with Theater Emory
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Quad
09/09/1987
U.S. Premiere by Samule Beckett
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Catastrophe
09/09/1987
Samuel Beckett
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Mr. Universe
09/09/1987
World Premiere by Jim Grimsley
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Hondo Gothic
09/09/1987
World Premiere by Ted Hayes
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Blood on Blood
09/09/1987
World Premiere by Rebecca Ranson
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Bang Bang Uber Alles
09/09/1986
World Premiere by June Jordan & Adrienne Torf
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What Drove Mollie Mad?
09/09/1986
World Premiere by Lama Alford
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Sizwe Bansi is Dead
09/09/1986
Athol Fugard
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Love and Trouble
09/09/1986
World Premiere by Pearl Cleage
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Seduced
09/09/1985
Sam Shepard
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Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
09/09/1985
Jacques Brel
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Tooth of Crime
09/09/1985
Sam Shepard
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Food for the Moon
09/09/1985
World Premiere by Matthew Shelton
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The Misanthrope
09/09/1985
Moliere
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Wasted
09/09/1984
World Premiere by Fred Gamel
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Burning Bridges and the Troll
09/09/1984
World Premiere by Del Hamilton
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Warren
09/09/1984
World Premiere by Rebecca Ranson
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Southern Comfort
09/09/1984
Nick Kazan
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Hair: The American Tribal Musical
09/09/1984
Gerome Ragni
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james Rado and Love Rock Musical
09/09/1984
Galt MacDermott
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The Blacks
09/09/1983
Jean Genet
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The Three Penny Opera
09/09/1983
Bertolt Brecht
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Geography of a horse Dreamer
09/09/1983
Sam Shepard
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Katzelmacher
09/09/1983
U.S. Premiere by R. W. Fassbinder
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Hunger Pains
09/09/1982
World Premiere by Faye Allen & Maya Smith
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Faust
09/09/1982
Goethe – Adapted with Dance Pieces
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The Return and Revenge of the Son of Mama/Dada
09/09/1982
World Premiere by Del Hamilton
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Desperadoes
09/09/1982
World Premiere of Trilogy by Rebecca Ranson
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Phaedre
09/10/1982
World Premiere of Adaptation by Elisabeth Corley
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Christmas Carol 1980
09/10/1981
World Premiere by Eddie Lee
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Reclaiming Our Garbage
09/10/1981
World Premiere by Faye Allen and Maya Smith
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Son of Mama/Dada
09/10/1981
World Premiere by Del Hamilton
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Mother Courage and Her Children
09/10/1981
Bertolt Brecht
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The Pluto Play
09/10/1981
World Premiere by Jeff Jawer
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago
09/10/1980
David Mamet
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I Remember Mama/Dada
09/10/1980
World Premiere by Del Hamilton
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The Tempest
09/10/1980
William Shakespeare
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The Miser
09/10/1980
Moliere – World Premiere of Translation by Elisabeth Corley
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Josephine: The Mouse Singer
09/10/1980
Michael McClure
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Wolves
09/10/1979
World Premiere by John Robinson
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If you need to contact Georgia Watch for more information, please call them at 404-525-1085.

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HOLLYWOOD SEMINARS presents:
The B.Y.G. (Before You Go) Hollywood Seminar
10/26/2009
Micah Penn
This seminar/class is a real world presentation on life and work in Hollywood and in the film industry. It includes information on how and where to live in Hollywood, personal preparation for work in Hollywood, how to find jobs in the movie industry, the truth about “who you know” and how relationships work, talent representation and booking jobs. To live successfully in Hollywood takes preparation and knowledge. This seminar is the place to begin.

www.hollywoodlifeseminar.com

FOR TICKETS: Call 404-421-3678   more…

BIG CITY BURLESQUE & VAUDEVILLE presents:
The Seven Deadly Showgirls
10/31/2009
Director: Kenton McGhee
Join BCB & V as our own Reverend Malachi O’Grady guides along our ever devious, & ever delicious lessons on the 7 Deadly Sins. All Hallows Eve is the scene for our glamorous, dangerous, dames to spin their tales of Lust, Wrath, Envy & more, (under the good Reverend’s “Watchful” eye of course).   more…

Volta Dance Theater presents:
Coiled at the Base of Our Spines
11/06/2009 – 11/07/2009
Director: Maryn Mills
Volta Dance Theater celebrates its first season with the premier of ‘Coiled at the Base of Our Spines’, the new work by choreographer/director Maryn Mills. ‘Coiled’ features 14 dancers from Atlanta, Athens, and Charleston, chosen by Maryn for their unique personalities and roles they have played in her dance career. The 40-minute work utilizes four, 4′x8′ platforms and original, colorful, hand-made costumes, designed by Maryn and crafted by her mother.

The movement, developed over the past 8 years, explores concepts of repetition, musical influence and emotional derivation. “I have chosen to work with repetition in movement the way a songwriter might use repetition in musical phrasing and song structure. Pop music reminds its listeners through repetition of choruses. I want to prompt my dance audience through repetition of movement,” says Maryn. Maryn is inspired by an eclectic list of musical selections to accompany the movement. Songs from The Beach Boys, Radiohead, Dave Brubeck, Laurie Anderson, CSS, Brian Eno, Spoon, Peaches, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs fill the performance. Also eclectic, the first half of the evening features companies Maryn has worked with or been a part of in the past, including Charleston Dance Project, Dancefx, Good Moves, Laura Glenn, Lisa Yaconelli, Notchyomamas Modern Project, PickleShoes, Project 7, and SIDEWAYS Contemporary Dance Company.

Volta Dance Theater presents, ‘Coiled at the Base of Our Spines’, and special guests perform Friday, November 6th & Saturday, November 7th, 2009, 7:30pm at 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave. NE, Atlanta GA 30307.

To buy tickets: http://www.voltadancetheater.com/purchase_tickets.html   more…

Good Moves presents:
Until We Dance Again
11/21/2009 – 11/22/2009
Director: Annette Lewis
This is the annual repertory concert of the Good Moves Consort one of Atlanta’s most accomplished pre-professional dance ensembles. Presented repertory includes modern and ballet works by local and national choreographers including: Jonathan Riedel, Michele Mola, Sarah Konner, Annette Lewis and Carolyn Stine McLaughlin.   more…

Lube for the Mind Productions presents:
Penis Monologues
11/25/2009 – 11/29/2009
You’ve heard of The Vagina Monologues…well, DON’T MISS The Penis Monologues LIVE! when it comes to your city. It’s a riveting stage play presented by Lube for the Mind Productions. Ladies packed the house to hear what men have to say. There has never been an episodic play quite like this.   more…

Theresa Davis & Jon Goode presents:
Wish You Were Here
01/09/2010
Theresa Davis & Jon Goode
Director: Theresa Davis & Jon Goode
Wish You Were Here, is a poetry & performance show featuring Theresa Davis (Slam Poet), Jon Goode (HBO, BET, CNN, Nick@Nite) & Special Guests; HBO Def Poetry & BET Lyric Cafe’s Amir Sulaiman & Malik Salaam; HBO Def Poetry’s Dana Gilmore; Slam Poet AP & Alice Lovelace. The work presented in Wish You Were Here will cover a variety of themes ranging from politics to love, from war to peace & all points in between. The hope is to through words take the audience on a journey through the lives of the artists & consequently on a journey through their own lives.   more…

Following his SOLD OUT residencies at Hotel Café in Los Angeles & at Joe’s Pub in NYC, Butch is bringin it back home with four live, stripped down, intimate performances at 7 Stages in Atlanta. Each night he’ll perform a different album front to back as follows: Jan 13 “Anything Goes”, Jan 14 “Letters”, Jan 15 “The Rise and Fall…” and Jan 16 “Sycamore Meadows” Get your tickets now while they last!   more…

ACE (Atlanta Choreographers Emerging) presents:
Catellier and Staib, The Dance Project & ICE
01/21/2010 – 01/24/2010
Director: Gregory Catellier and George Staib
Cartellier and Staib, The Dance Project
Gregory Catellier and George Staib celebrate their fourth choreographic collaboration with The Dance Project, Jan 21-24. In keeping with their collaborative history, The Dance Project, is intensely physical, tenaciously musical and potently emotional. Both choreographers will premier three new works that purposefully break from their previous methodologies of choreography. Staib’s new work is marked by sensitive theatricality, juxtaposed with a movement vocabulary that is original and riveting. Catellier has chosen to work with a predominantly male cast and has taken on the challenge of J.S. Bach’s Chaconne. This concert will not be what you expect from these two choreographers.

ICE
Independent Choreographers Exchange (ICE,) unites Atlanta’s most exciting independent choreographers who are new to the city or emerging dance-makers. This two concert series, presented with Catellier and Staib, The Dance Project, features professional dancers from the Atlanta community. Choreographers include Joel Ballard, Emily Cargill, Corian Ellisor, T. Lang, Ellen Lyle, and Kathleen Wessel. ICE promises to be an eclectic and exciting group of dances. Get your dance fill by attending ICE and The Dance Project for one low price! Discounted tickets are available for those who attend both programs. ICE Performances are January 23rd at 3:00pm and January 24th at 7:00pm.   more…

Zoetic Dance Ensemble and 7 Stages presents:
Relief Work
01/30/2010
An Evening of contemporary dance benefiting the efforts of the American Red Cross in Haiti   more…

Synchronicity Theatre presents:
Free to Be…You and Me
02/13/2010 – 03/07/2010
Stage Adaptation written by Douglas Love and Regina Safran
Director: Heidi Howard
A groovy musical that lets children know, in the words of Marlo Thomas, “that each of their Happily Ever Afters can and will be different.   more…

Synchronicity Theatre presents:
Women + War
02/19/2010 – 03/07/2010
Created by the Synchronicity Ensemble
Director: Rachel May, Choreography by Celeste Miller
The women speak. Our company-created hit from 2005 returns, with a vibrant tapestry of startling, hopeful, heartbreaking and funny stories that cast new light on the wartime experiences of soldiers, refugees, defense contractors, missionaries, activists and others.   more…

WTF! The Magic Show That Doesn’t Suck
03/20/2010
Magician Mick Stone
Magician Mick Stone brings the excitement of street magic to the stage in WTF?!   more…

Fly-By Theatre presents presents:
A World of Silents
06/11/2010 – 06/13/2010
Kelly Craigmile and Ensemble
Director: Pam Joyce
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Synchronicity Theatre presents:
Playmaking for Girls Summer Show
06/12/2010
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Full Radius Dance presents:
The Full Radius Dance Holiday Spectacular II
12/05/2008 – 12/06/2008
A fun, family friendly dance production featuring Full Radius Dance, a professional, physically integrated (dancers with and without disabilities) modern dance company. “The HolidaySpectacular” is inspired by the celebrity-hosted holiday specials of TV’s past. Included on the program will be the premieres of “Winter”, loosely based on a quintet of Norse gods and incorporating aerial work, and “Sacred”, inspired by the sacredness of nature, of religious experience, and of human touch. Special guest for “The Holiday Spectacular” are the Von Krapp Family Singers, whose joyous (and campy) vocals will add the festive atmosphere.   more…

SIDEWAYS Contemporary Dance Company presents:
Once Upon A Holiday
12/11/2008 – 12/13/2008
Director: Charlotte Foster
Come celebrate the Holiday season this year with a new tradition! Through the performance of local students and the SIDEWAYS Dance company, Alice takes a new journey through a land complete with outrageous holiday characters and new lessons to be learned. Alice discovers that family is at the heart of every holiday season. An evening full of laughs for the entire family!   more…

BIG CITY BURLESQUE & VAUDEVILLE presents:
New Year’s Kiss
01/17/2009
Hey folks , the girls & guys of Big City Burlesque & Vaudeville would like to invite you to join us in a “New Year’s Kiss “this Saturday at 10:pm .Yes, from the homespun charm of Zack Burlappe & the sultry sounds of Jazzene to a front row view of Sugar Vanderbilt’s high steppin’ gams , we aim to please you. I’m sure Miss Ava Garters will have a thing or two to say about that !!! See you here at 7 Stages Theater , Feb. 17th – $ 15.00 . Door is 9:pm. See you there !   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Looking for the Pony
02/06/2009 – 03/08/2009
Andrea Lepcio
Breast cancer can’t stop Lauren from trying to take care of everyone around her. But Oisie, her sister, knows her soul. They grab hands and embark on a roller-coaster ride of achievements and treatments, laughter and heartache. Together they arrive at their final destination, supporting each other with love and laughs as only sisters can. A fast-paced journey dedicated to the fierce love of two sisters and the overwhelming joy of family.
FOR TICKETS CALL 404-484-8636
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Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
02/14/2009 – 03/08/2009
Adapted for the stage by Jody Davidson
It is just a bit of kindness, to offer a cookie to a poor, hungry little mouse. Right? Little did one kind but ill-fated boy know that it was the first step toward the end of civilization as he knows it! One thing leads to another, and another, and another until mayhem hits and you can’t even remember how it all began. Oh, yes, it was a cookie. Based on the hit book by Laura Joffee Numeroff. For ages 4 and up.
FOR TICKETS CALL 404-484-8636
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BIG CITY BURLESQUE & VAUDEVILLE presents:
L’ MOUR: A FRENCH REVIEW
02/14/2009
Director: KING ROUGE (AKA KENTON MCGHEE)
ATLANTA’S FIRST AND ONLY ALL RETRO TROUPE SINCE 2002. DEDICATED TO BRINGING OUR AUDIENCE THE MAGIC AND CHARMS OF YESTERYEAR. THIS VALENTINE’S WE ARE INTRODUCING OUR NEWEST STAR, GISELLE DE PAREE – THE BURLESQUE BALLERINA, ALONG WITH SEVERAL NEW ACTS FROM OUR BELOVED CAST, WHICH INCLUDE “THE DEVIL DOLL” A CLASSIC STRIPTEASE, THE SMOOTH VOCALS OF VIOLETTA EMERALD & OUR “BIG CITY BAND” LEAD BY ‘SAM THE MAN’ & THE OLD WORLD HUMOR OF “THE NAPOLEON ARMS” A VAUDEVILLE GEM. OUR SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE THE ENCHANTING CHINITA OF BLAST OFF BURLESQUE & THE HOT & SPICY CALU OF CALU’S PEEPSHOW!   more…

VDay Atlanta presents:
The Vagina Monologues
02/20/2009 – 02/22/2009
By Eve Ensler
Director: Rod Lindsey
The production that spawned a worldwide movement, The Vagina Monologues is almost self-explanatory. Monologues taken from real interviews with real women dealing with a range of topics, all dealing with vaginas.   more…

VDay Atlanta presents:
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer
02/20/2009 – 02/22/2009
By Various Authors
Director: Kirstin Popper
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer is the companion piece to The Vagina Monologues written by various authors giving their own personal points of view of women, sex, and violence.   more…

Haverty Marionettes presents:
The Phantom Limb
03/13/2009 – 04/05/2009
Michael Haverty
Director: Michael Haverty
An account of events in the life of Mr. Albert Fish, the ‘Brooklyn Werewolf’. Life-size and miniature wooden marionettes, live actors, 2D cut-outs and silhouette film combine to create a surreal dream world weaving fairy tales and historical fact into an unconventional exploration of morality, fantasy, and the capacity in nature for evil.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
1:23
04/17/2009 – 05/17/2009
Carson Kreitzer
Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, Juana Leija; once normal women, normal mothers. Now branded forever by their ability to commit the unthinkable crime. In Carson Kreitzer’s stunning drama, we peer into the defining moments of three broken lives through the eyes of the detectives charged with sifting through the shards while struggling to stay sane. Can the water that drowned their children ever wash these women clean?
FOR TICKETS CALL 404-484-8636
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Several Dancers Core presents:
THREE
04/24/2009 – 04/26/2009
CORE Performance Company, together with three renowned women choreographers, premieres new works, a triptych of engrossing and diverse contemporary dance called simply, THREE. The evening features new work by prominent Dutch choreographer, Beppie Blankert, Mexico City’s Alicia Sánchez, named one of the 100 most important Mexican creative artists of the 20th Century, and Polly Motley, American inter-media artist.
FOR TICKETS CALL 800-838-3006
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Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business
05/06/2009 – 05/31/2009
Book, Music & Lyrics by Joan Cushing
Director: Clint Thornton
That’s right – the sell-out hit from last season is back! Join the irreverent and irrepressible Junie B. Jones and all her friends again for another hilarious round of misunderstandings and kindergarten hijinks. Junie can’t wait to meet her brand new monkey brother. Don’t wait to get your tickets! For ages 4 and up.

FOR TICKETS CALL 404-484-8636 or visit
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Full Radius Dance presents:
“Home”: Full Radius Dance in concert
06/05/2009 – 06/06/2009
Director: Douglas Scott
One of the nation’s premiere physically integrated (dancers with and without disabilities) modern dance companies in performance featuring the world premiere of “Home” by artistic director Douglas Scott and the revival of “Sacred”. Rounding out the program will be “Passioné, most recently performed by Full Radius Dance at the International Festival of Human Abilities in northern Italy (May 2009.)

For tickets, call 404-724-9663 or visit www.fullradiusdance.org   more…

SIDEWAYS Contemporary Dance Company presents:
COEXIST
06/11/2009 – 06/13/2009
Director: Charlotte Foster
COEXIST explores the multitude of relationships that exist in society and how our actions cause reciprocal effects. Filled with stunning contemporary dance, choreography, and spoken word, COEXIST is sure to inspire audiences to enhance their relationships with those around them. Take the journey through COEXIST with SIDEWAYS this June!   more…

BIG CITY BURLESQUE & VAUDEVILLE presents:
The Crime Scene
06/27/2009
Director: Kenton McGhee
Calling all Dames and Gents! Big City Burlesque and Vaudeville brings you “The Crime Scene”. Yes, film noir sets the mood from N.Y. to Tinseltown. New acts inclue new troupe members Hot Honey Monroe – The ‘Swivel Hips’ Blond Bombshell, Flame Haired Soubrette – Frainkie Sin, Sexy Secretary – Ingo Longstockings and Funny Bones – Joe Schmoe. Join us for a walk into the shadows of the past. BCB&V’s bevy of beauties and comic lugs look forward to jiving with you. For those who couldn’t get into our Valentine’s Review, please get your tickets early!   more…

Little 5 Points Rockstar Orchestra presents:
666 / 2112
07/05/2007 – 07/07/2007
Director: Rob Thompson
Atlanta’s only Rock Theatre Company presents a second helping of 666 – a dramatic interpretation of Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast. This time with a brand new opening program; a staging of RUSH’s concept piece 2112! Freaks, mutants and metal heads welcome (no nincompoops).   more…

Essential Theater Power Plays Festival presents:
Fix Me So I Can Stand
07/06/2007 – 07/22/2007
Jean Sterrett
The World Premiere of a powerful drama inspired by the true story of an African-American man falsely convicted of a double homicide in 1970’s Georgia. Winner of the 2007 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award competition.   more…

Essential Theatre Power Plays Festival presents:
Night Travels
07/10/2007 – 07/22/2007
By by Charlotte Fleck, Karen Wurl, Ellen McQueen and the Company
An evening of original theatre pieces created by Essential Theatre playwrights and the acting company, exploring the world of women’s dreams.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
My Name is Rachel Corrie
09/07/2007 – 10/07/2007
Director: Rachel May
For more information about this rental production, produced by Synchronicity Performance Group, please click the link below.   more…

Alternate ROOTS presents:
UPROOTED: The Katrina Project
09/21/2007 – 09/22/2007
Director: An original evening of theatre directed by Roscoe Reddix
UPROOTED: The Katrina Project is a collaboration representative of a broad spectrum of art forms, including performance art, modern dance, contemporary hip hop, experimental theater, storytelling and traditional tales. These performances are portrayals of current Gulf region experiences based on stories of those affected by the hurricanes, including, ROOTS member-artists. Each of these artists represents a specific population and presents relevant images of the Gulf region both before and after the storm.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
A Nervous Smile
08/25/2006 – 09/23/2006
By John Belluso
Director: Michele Pearce
A young girl with cerebral palsy is locked in the prison of her own body. Will her parents do the unthinkable, and abandon her to escape the bruising reality of her care? In this emotionally-charged drama, late playwright John Belluso raises fundamental questions about the nature of parenthood, love, desire and what it means to be a disabled person in America.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Bunnicula
09/02/2006 – 09/24/2006
Adapted for the stage by Jon Klein, from the book by Deborah and
Director: Clint Thornton, music direction by Bryan Mercer
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Theatre du Reve presents:
Trois Pieces Courtes de Beckett (Three Shorts by Beckett)
09/30/2006 – 10/08/2006
Samuel Beckett
Director: Walter Asmus, Adam Fristoe, and Ariel de Man
From the famous playwright who brought us Waiting for Godot, we present TROIS PIECES COURTES DE BECKETT: Pas/Footfalls, Va et Vient/Come and Go and Catastrophe. The plays will be performed in French and then in English.   more…

Zoetic Dance Ensemble presents:
SHIFT
10/19/2006 – 10/21/2006
Zoetic Dance Ensemble presents SHIFT, a contemporary dance concert featuring new work by four choreographers, including Spelman College Dance Professor Nicole Wesley. Works presented in SHIFT display the strength, technique, and artistry that has become the signature of Zoetic, an award-winning company acclaimed for its fun, high-energy, and dynamic approach to modern dance.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Voices Underwater
11/03/2006 – 12/03/2006
A national premiere by Abi Basch
Director: Rachel May
Past and present flood into the attic of a plantation house that Emma mysteriously inherited, and challenge our expectations about race, gender, sexuality and the legacy of slavery in the South. With stunning visual imagery and poetic language, playwright Abi Basch spins a beautiful and moving new play.   more…

Several Dancers Core presents:
Corazón Abriendo (Heart Opening)
11/10/2006 – 11/12/2006
Director: Sue Schroeder and Susan M. Prins
Corazón Abriendo (Heart Opening), a dynamic new multi-media performance work, is a cross-cultural collaboration uniting artists from Mexico and the United States. The theme of weaving inspires the piece: its movements and sounds, its historical and spiritual significance for the Maya, as well as its resurgence as an integral part of contemporary life. CORE Performance Company weaves music, dance, story-telling, videography and the sights and sounds collected from the Chiapas region of Mexico into this exceptional performance piece.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Night.Light
11/14/2006 – 11/29/2006
Three One Acts by Sam Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates & Catherine Tri
Director: Danielle Mindess & Amber Bradshaw
Night.Light is an explosive and eclectic dark night series of plays. It will feature the Obie award-winning Icarus’s Mother by iconic American playwright Sam Shepard, as well as the award-winning Tone Clusters, by acclaimed playwright and novelist Joyce Carol Oates. The evening will begin with one version of Your Roaring Blood, a ten-minute play by local playwright Catherine Trieschmann, and close with a second version of the same play. Performed during the run of Voices Underwater.   more…

Good Moves presents:
Wading Through Water and Whimsey
11/18/2006 – 11/19/2006
Director: Annette Lewis
The annual repertory concert of the Good Moves Consort, Atlanta’s most accomplished pre-professional dance company combining ballet and classical modern. Performances feature works by both local and national choreographers and historic reconstructions.   more…

Full Radius Dance presents:
Greatest Hits: Full Radius Dance in concert
12/01/2006 – 12/03/2006
Director: Douglas Scott
Full Radius Dance, a professional physically integrated (dancers with and without disabilities) dance company, has become noted for taking the art of movement to another level, offering audiences a striking and unique dance experience. Greatest Hits features both notable works from their repertory and world premieres.   more…

Zion Dance Theater, Inc. presents:
The Truth
01/05/2007 – 01/07/2007
Director: Chantel Stevens
Walk in it, stand on it, speak… an original production to be remembered. When the eyes of God are watching, the Truth will be revealed. A show that will have you laugh, cry, and appreciate what is most important.   more…

Theatre du Reve presents:
Vive La Fontaine
03/02/2007 – 03/04/2007
Based on the fables of La Fontaine
Director: Ariel de Man
One Weekend Only! Théâtre du Rêve’s beloved Evening of music, dance, puppetry and dazzling entertainment based on the fables of Jean de La Fontaine.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Miss Nelson is Missing!
04/20/2007 – 05/20/2007
Director: Clint Thornton
The kids of room 207 have become the WORST kids of all!
Sweet Miss Nelson has been replaced with the scary substitute Viola Swamp… who won’t even have a story hour! Your whole family will love this witty, wacky musical, which teaches a valuable lesson about kindness and respect. Based on the beloved children’s book.
For kids 4 & up.   more…

SIDEWAYS Contemporary Dance Company presents:
DANSEOMANIA: A Response to Outside Forces
05/24/2007 – 05/26/2007
Director: Charlotte Foster
SIDEWAYS Contemporary Dance Company presents its premiere repertory concert, entitled DANSEOMANIA: A Response to Outside Forces. SIDEWAYS explores current social issues and creates their own voice through dance. In the end, SIDEWAYS paves the way for a hopeful future with the belief that every individual can, in fact, make a difference. SIDEWAYS has been recognized as a powerful force by Mia Michaels and Ann Reinking.   more…

Freeze Dried Monkey
06/02/2007
Director: Willie B
Freeze Dried Monkey (or FDM for those who enjoy abbreviations) consists of actors trained in improv comedy.

Freeze Dried Monkey will perform only sketch comedy. Whereas, sketch comedy has its roots in vaudeville, Freeze Dried Monkey will resemble a more modern version of sketch comedy in the vain of Kids in the Hall, Monty Python, and the Pat Sajak Show (which deserved more time to find an audience).   more…

Words Can’t Describe: A Double Bill of Two One-Person Shows
07/29/2005 – 07/30/2005
Scott Turner Scofield and S. Bear Bergman
Director: Scott Turner Scofield and S. Bear Bergman
Clearly Marked by S. Bear Bergman is a hilarious, high-impact, thought-provoking theater piece that peels back the layers of the labels we all wear and digs in to what’s underneath.

Debutante Balls by Scott Turner Scofield is a comedic look at coming of age and coming out, taken from the perspective of one queer white Southerner. Three gala balls, two Southern towns, one leopard-print dress: Do you have the balls to be a Debutante?   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Women and War
09/17/2005 – 10/09/2005
Created by the Synchronicity ensemble
Director: Rachel May
The women speak. Synchronicity artists interviewed Atlanta-area women soldiers, refugees, defense contractors, missionaries, activists, and more. In this startling, hopeful, funny and heartbreaking tapestry of text, movement and striking visuals – Synchronicity’s dynamic ensemble explores what it means to be a woman touched by war.   more…

Good Moves Consort presents:
Onward
12/09/2005 – 12/11/2005
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Gospel Tabernacle and Word In Action Ministries presents:
When Sunday Comes
01/04/2006 – 01/08/2006
Director: Pamela Gardner
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Essential Theatre presents:
Leaving Limbo
01/05/2006 – 01/29/2006
A world premiere by Valetta Anderson
Director: Peter Hardy
??+??P?p artist travels back in time to an African village in this magical journey across the boundaries of personal and cultural identity. By Valetta Anderson, author of “She’ll Find Her Way Home” and “Dr. Love and the Fabulous Diamond Jubilees”.   more…

Gospel Tabernacle and Word In Action Ministries presents:
Winter Dance Recital
01/07/2006 – 01/08/2006
Director: Linda Hutchins
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Gospel Tabernacle and Word In Action Ministries presents:
New Christian Artists Debut
01/08/2006
Director: T. Lynn Smith
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Essential Theatre presents:
Book of Liz
01/09/2006 – 01/28/2006
A regional premiere by Amy Sedaris and David Sedaris
Director: Lee Nowell
Sister Elizabeth Donderstock leaves the reclusive religious community she has lived in all her life (Clusterhaven, home of the Squeamish, famous for its cheese balls) and sets our to try her luck in the modern world. By Amy Sedaris (“Strangers With Candy”) and David Sedaris (“The Santaland Diaries”). “A delightfully off-key, off-color hymn to clich,we all live by.” The New York Times. “Good-natured, goofy and frequently hilarious.” New York Newsday.   more…

Essential Theatre presents:
Charm School
01/13/2006 – 01/27/2006
A world premiere by Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee
Director: Ellen McQueen
Two guys from Macon Are sent to a “Diversity Sensitivity Training” seminar when their company is threatened with a lawsuit over racist jokes in the workplace. By Eddie Lee and Larry Larson (the award-winning authors of ‘Tent Meeting”, “The Bench: A Story of Christmas” and the legendary “Blood Orgy” trilogy), this provocative comedy looks at the follies and prejudices that we may not even know we have inside.
Co-Winner of the 2006 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award!   more…

Theatre du Reve presents:
Vive la Fontaine!
02/04/2006 – 02/19/2006
Director: Ariel De Man
A celebration of the fables of La Fontaine. Performed in French.   more…

Out of Hand Theatre presents:
Cartoon
03/30/2006 – 04/23/2006
A world premiere by Steve Yockey
Director: Adam Fristoe
Nothing like a punch in the face to get the blood moving! Join the tumultuous exploits of a madcap band of mismatched cartoon stereotypes in their media-saturated world. Cartoon is packed with fist fights, revolutions, explosions, and even a little bit of love.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
05/04/2006 – 06/03/2006
A regional premiere by Luis Alfaro
Director: Michele Pearce
Minerva is big – and she’s getting bigger by the day. Alice just got a speeding ticket and, boy, is that cop cute! Al?s obsessed with the Raiders, and Officer Fernandez has security completely…under…control. With a generous serving of wit and a dash of magical imagination, Luis Alfaro’s new comedy about body-image, sisters, sex and self-loathing explores just what people will do to satisfy their hunger.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Alexander Who’s Not Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move
05/13/2006 – 06/04/2006
Director: Clint Thornton
Alexander?s bad day has just gotten worse. His parents announce that they are moving to a new town, where there are no kids his age for one thousand miles. At least that?s what Alexander thinks. So he?s putting his foot down and he is NOT going to move. The sequel to last season?s hit, Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.   more…

Little 5 Points Rockstar Orchestra presents:
6-6-6: A Tribute to the Devil & Heavy Metal, a dramatic rendition of Iron Maiden’s ‘Number of the Beast’
06/06/2006 – 06/10/2006
Conceived and developed by Shane Morton & Rob Thompson
Director: Shane Morton & Rob Thompson
A dramatic rendition of Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast – and other hell songs. Written, directed, and conceived by Shane Morton, Rob Thompson, and Liam McKaharay.

For more info, visit www.myspace.com/rockstarorchestra.   more…

Brown Eyes Entertainment presents:
The Things Women Say In The Dark
06/22/2006 – 06/25/2006
Director: Ravern Carlisle
A story about the relationship between two sisters that reside with their aunt. They get mixed up in unhealthy relationship and are blinded by the real intentions of their boyfriend and realize love is not always what it seems.   more…

Healing Waters Productions presents:
Why Won’t She Leave?
07/14/2006 – 07/16/2006
Director: Helen Shutte-Pettaway & Cynthia C. Harris
Why Won’t She Leave? is an innovative fusion of monologue and dialogue that tells the riveting story of one woman’s experience in a turbulent relationship. The performance vividly details her initial search “outside herself for love�? and finally for restoration. The work explores relationships between men and women and the tremendous power of our words to hurt and heal. The dramatic performance and post discussion will take place during the National Black Arts Festival, July 14th – 16th, 2006.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
Language of Angels (Rental)
10/22/2004 – 11/21/2004
Naomi Iizuka
Director: Rachel May
A young girl disappears in a cave in rural North Carolina, and is never found. In this eerie ghost story, eight friends are forever haunted by that night.   more…

Synchronicity Performance Group presents:
How High Is Up? (rental)
10/30/2004 – 11/21/2004
Director: Clint Thornton
Faced with the loss of her beloved Ba Ga, a courageous little girl sets off on a magical journey to understand the nature of life. For children 5 and up.   more…

Good Moves Dance Company presents:
Down to Earth and Sky High
11/20/2004 – 11/21/2004
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True Colors Theatre Company presents:
The Wiz (rental)
12/14/2004 – 12/30/2004
Director: Kenny Leon
Dorothy and company ease on down the road in this soulful telling of The Wizard of Oz.   more…

The Essential Theatre Company presents:
The Late Henry Moss (rental)
01/03/2005 – 01/23/2005
A regional premiere by Sam Shepard
Director: Peter Hardy
A wrenching, surrealistic family drama by the legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such modern classics as Fool For Love, Buried Child and A Lie of the Mind.   more…

The Essential Theatre Company presents:
Going to Saint Ives (rental)
01/06/2005 – 01/22/2004
A regional premiere by Lee Blessing
Director: Patricia Henritze
The mother of a notorious African dictator tries to convince a pacifist doctor to aid in the murder of her son.   more…

The Essential Theatre Company presents:
Miss MacBeth (rental)
01/10/2005 – 01/23/2005
A world premiere by Karen Wurl
Director: David Crowe
The winner of the 2005 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award is this hilarious dark comedy about vaulting ambition in the dangerous world of university theatre.   more…

Theatre du Reve presents:
Les Precieuses Ridicules
02/04/2005 – 02/13/2005
Written by Moliere
Director: Ariel de Man
Savor the wit of France’s comic genius in this farcial story of two young ladies who learn that snobbery does not pay!   more…

Re-Verb presents:
Robert Earl Price in Concert (rental)
04/01/2005 – 04/03/2005
An evening of poetry, jazz, and video
A rare public performance from widely admired poet, playwright, political activist and Atlanta native Robert Earl Price offers a sophisticated collaboration with celebrated saxophonist Fuasi Abdul Khaliq and consummate video artist Sabina Maja Angel.

For more info, visit www.re-verb.net.   more…