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Georgia Theatre Conference has announcd its 2024 convention, taking place from October 16-19 in Gainesville, GA. This milestone year marks the highest attendance in the organization's six-decade history, with more than 40 theatre companies and schools participating in the highly anticipated one-act festivals, and over 25 registered organizations and colleges eager to recruit students and hire professional artists.

Something I have said many times is that I wish audience members would fully realize the amount of work and the amount of people it takes to put on a production. The things I have heard in theatre lobbies are both scary and laughable at the same time. Things like 'Oh, I want a chance to crash that chandelier. It's just one button!' or 'Wow, that didn't look hard at all. I could do that easily'. Well folks, working in theatre is not an easy profession. It comes with lots of stress and long days but if you have the drive and passion, it can be very fulfilling.

Today, the Cleveland Institute of Music announced the fellows for the 2021 Future of Music Faculty Fellowship Program, a critical step forward in creating a culture of diversity within the music academy and beyond.

Gainesville Theatre Alliance has announced two digital offerings to close their 2020-21 season. Due to continued COVID-19 restrictions at both Brenau University and the University of North Georgia, both shows will be filmed and edited through a collaboration with UNG's Film Department and streamed to audiences for free.

The University of North Georgia has reported that Jayme McGhan has been named the new head of the Department of Theatre.

As told by a traveling troupe of actors led by the cunning and charming Leading Player, Pippin is the story of a young prince, heir to the throne, who returns from university certain that he will find a fulfilling purpose in life. He dabbles in bloody battle, licentious and lusty entanglements, and savvy political maneuvers, only to discover that true happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but in the ordinary moments that happen every day. As part of their February Festival, Gainesville Theatre Alliance will present Pippin Feb 11-22 at Brenau University's Hosch Theatre.

In the hit movie Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon's character Elle Woods spends the film's climax (a high-stakes murder trial) in a pink suit as bright and feminine as her personality.

Get your ducks in a row and waddle on down to see The Ugly Duckling presented by Gainesville Theatre Alliance's WonderQuest. In this original play, a misfit duckling leaves the nest in search of adventure, family, and his own identity. The new script has its world premiere, Friday, Sep. 27 at 7:30 pm in Brenau University's historic Pearce Auditorium, 200 Boulevard NE, Gainesville.

Within the halls of the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria, is a museum, and within that museum is one of the most famous paintings in the world: Gustav Klimpt's "The Kiss". The Kiss is an original, lighthearted examination of the fascinating characters inside of the paintings at the Belvedere, as well as those admiring them. Join us for the artistic, absurd, absorbing premiere of The Kiss, Friday, April 12, at 7:30 pm in Brenau's Downtown Center, 301 Main St SW, Gainesville, GA 30501.

Next week's FREE Stage Tours give audiences a glimpse behind the scenes of GTA's February Festival's door-slamming and canyon-paddling comedies

According to a 2017 Timex survey, people spend a cumulative average of six months of their lives waiting in line and an average of 27 cumulative days waiting for a bus or train. Time is seen as immensely valuable to individuals in our culture, yet tends to be dependent on others. Searching for ways to fill our time with meaningful and necessary tasks, there tends to be a nearly constant state of waiting for the next task, waiting to get from one place to another, waiting for things to be right. The Gainesville Theatre Alliance production of Waiting for Godot, which opens Nov. 9, challenges the connections of people, time, and the meaning of life itself.

Another tornado heads to Gainesville as GTA sells out "The Wizard of Oz" before its Nov. 6 opening

Almost anyone born before 1995 will remember when The Wizard of Oz was a much anticipated family event, when the annual network broadcast had many children bathed and in pajamas ahead of schedule and allowed to stay up late to enjoy the classic American movie.  The Gainesville Theatre Alliance is preparing now to bring the classic 1939 film to the stage, and at 6pm, Oct. 23, will offer a sneak peek at HOW they are creating a talking lion, taking patrons from Kansas to Oz and making monkeys fly.

Storytelling has been used for generations to bring people together and bridge the gap of conversation between otherwise divided groups. Theatre is being used more and more as a way to integrate patrons as a community into the stories they need to hear. Even from a young age, there is a power behind the stories we are told, the stories we tell and the stories uncovered that were lost over time.

Set sail for adventure and swashbuckling fun with WonderQuest's production of Sophie and the Pirates