Actor's Express Returns To The Stage With Season 34
Actor's Express announces its 34th Season of dynamic, entertaining work, including a World Premiere and co-production with Oglethorpe University Theatre. After a year of virtual programming, including streaming and a podcast, Actor's Express returns to in-person performances with an eight-show in-person season.
Actor's Express Announces 2021 Virtual Threshold New Play Festival
Actor’s Express is bringing back the Virtual Threshold New Play Festival, a festival of new play readings May 16, May 23, and June 13, 2021. The Threshold New Play Festival focuses on mostly Atlanta and Georgia-based writers who are also making a mark on the national scene.
Alice Ripley, Joe Iconis and More Join OUT FOR BLOOD Podcast
OUT FOR BLOOD: THE STORY OF CARRIE THE MUSICAL has announced a packed line-up for its final episodes starting today. Guests sharing their memories and experiences of recent productions of CARRIE include: Stafford Arima, Molly Ranson, Carmen Cusack, AnnMarie Milazzo, Alice Ripley and more.
Actor's Express Launches First-Ever Serialized Podcast Series
This February, Actor's Express will launch its first-ever serialized podcast series - “Crossroads.” Actor's Express has commissioned six BIPOC Atlanta writers to write this original podcast drama. Taking place over seven episodes, “Crossroads” is an adventure that takes place throughout time and space.
Theater Alliance's PROTEST IN EIGHT Highlights Requsts Of Black Lives Matter Movement
In a dynamic debut of online content, Theater Alliance kicks off the theater season with Strategize, Organize, Mobilize: A Protest in Eight. This evening of eight short plays, newly commissioned from emerging playwrights, explores the requests of the Black Lives Matter movement — from banning stop and frisk to considering reparations, and more.
Actor's Express Continues 32nd Season With FUN HOME
Actor's Express continues its 32nd season with the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home based on Alison Bechdel's bestselling graphic memoir of the same name. This wholly original musical took Broadway by storm and cemented itself as one of the landmark musicals of our time. Directed by Artistic Director Freddie Ashley, Fun Home dives into Alison's past to trace the sequence of childhood events that made her the adult she is today. In doing so, she initiates a journey of reconciliation with her late father, whose mercurial and secretive personality kept the two apart at the precise moments they should have been closest. This musical of coming of age and coming out tells a tale of what happens when you finally see your parents through grown-up eyes.
The 8th Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival
The 8th Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) returns to for its 8th year, in partnership with Actor's Express. The 8th Annual Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival runs two performances only; July 28 & 29 at 8 PM. All performances are at Actor's Express (887 W Marietta St NW). Tickets, priced at $20, are available at actors-express.com
Rover Dramawerks presents WHO'S UNDER WHERE?
Rover Dramawerks continues their 17th Season with the hilarious farce, Who's Under Where? by Marcia Cash and Doug Hughes. Performances will be at Rover's theatre in Plano, located in Ruisseau Village at 221 W. Parker Rd, Suite 580, at the northwest corner of Parker and 75. Performances run June 8 through July 1, 2017 on Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 p.m. and on Saturdays at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
BWW Review: The Many Charms of I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU
Lovers of the era of Busby Berkeley movie musicals are getting a double whammy of Golden Age goodness this month with a pair of musicals playing only two blocks from each other in Hollywood. I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU is already running at the mid-sized Ricardo Montalban Theatre on Vine and, very shortly, 42ND STREET will open at the much larger Hollywood Pantages. Both are inescapably linked by their subject matter.
Photo Flash: I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU Celebrates Opening at Montalban Theatre
Corky Hale presents I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU - The Life and Lyrics of Al Dubin, which opened May 13 at the Montalban Theatre, 1615 Vine St. in Hollywood. This new musical features lyrics by Al Dubin, music mostly by Harry Warren, book by Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner, and musical direction by Gerald Sternbach. The production is directed and choreographed by Kay Cole. BroadwayWorld has photos from the starry opening festivities below!