Summer Stages: WEST SIDE STORY, IN THE HEIGHTS, and More Lead BWW's Top Atlanta Theatre Picks of the Season

There's nothing like supporting local theatre, is there? This summer, Atlanta's prolific theatre scene offers a wide range of classics like WEST SIDE STORY and recent hits like Lin-Manuel Miranda's IN THE HEIGHTS. So many shows to choose from for the season! So we thought we'd narrow it down for you a bit. Below, check out BroadwayWorld Atlanta's top five picks for Atlanta theatre this summer!

The Atlanta Lyric Theatre

West Side Story- Now-June 26

How far would you go for true love? Atlanta Lyric Theatre explores that question with one of the most powerful and tragic love stories in American theatre, WEST SIDE STORY. The show is filled with electrifying dance numbers based on Jerome Robbins' original ground-breaking choreography. The score, written by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, features some of the most exuberant and romantic songs ever written, including "Somewhere (There's A Place For Us)," "Maria," "Tonight," "I Feel Pretty," and "America."

Starring: Tim Quartier, Katie Mariko

Tickets are on sale now at www.AtlantaLyric.com or by calling 404-377-9948.

Theatrical Outfit/Aurora Theatre

In the Heights- July 21-August 28

The duo of Atlanta theatres that brought last season's smash-hit MEMPHIS partners once again for the Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning IN THE HEIGHTS! Filled with pulsating Caribbean rhythms, vibrant hip-hop and lyrical melodies, this highly-acclaimed musical is a universal story of a Latin community in New York's Washington Heights. A place where the coffee from Usnavi's corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the brink of change. Like his community, Usnavi struggles to decide which traditions to keep and which to leave behind, in his search for a place called home.

Starring: Diego Klok-Perez, Diany Rodriguez, Garrett Turner, Julissa Sabino

Tickets: http://www.auroratheatre.com/on-stage/2016-17-signature-series/in-the-heights/

The Horizon Theatre

City of Conversation- Now-June 26

The Off-Broadway smash hit THE CITY OF CONVERSATION, a rousing story of a political family over three decades of change by Anthony Giardina, makes its Atlanta premiere at Horizon Theatre Company with an all-star Atlanta cast.

Washington DC was once a place where people actually talked to each other...Hester Ferris opens her home for political foes to lay down arms and raise a glass. But that is all about to change. Colin, her beloved son, brings home a Reaganite girlfriend and a shocking new conservative world view, rocking Hester's world. Follow the Ferris family from the end of the Carter presidency through the Reagan era and into Obama's game-changing inauguration.

Tickets: http://www.horizontheatre.com/plays/city-of-conversation/

Serenbe Playhouse

Miss Saigon- July 21-August 27

For the first time ever presented by a professional Atlanta theatre company, Serenbe Playhouse brings us romance, adventure and tragedy with this compelling rendition of Miss Saigon. In the classic musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, based on Giacomo Puccini's tragic opera, Madame Butterfly, an American GI falls desperately in love with a Vietnamese barmaid during our nation's most contentious war. Find yourself transported to the densely green, exceedingly mysterious wilderness of Vietnam by this enthralling presentation, complete with an actual huey helicopter that was flown in the Vietnam War, set to land in Serenbe's own mystifying forest. You'll be immersed in this harrowing tale of heartbreak and heroism as it's never been done before.

Tickets: Click here

Stage Door Players

Kiss Me Kate- July 15-August 17

The great backstage "show within a show" musical comedy, featuring what many call Cole Porter's greatest score, comes to Stage Door in all its Shakespearean tongue in cheek glory. This hysterical, tuneful battle of the sexes, where each cast member's on-stage life is complicated by what is happening offstage, contains such Porter classics as "So In Love," "Too Darn Hot," "Wunderbar," "From This Moment On," and "Another Opening, Another Show."

Tickets: Click here

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