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The 2026 Spring Arts Preview: Our picks in Music
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (1149+ words) The 2026 Spring Arts Preview: Our picks in Music'ARTS ATL The 2026 Spring Arts Preview: Our picks in Music In its 49th year, the Atlanta Jazz Fest has stepped up its game. The lineup for the Memorial Day weekend staple is impressive. The…...
The 2026 Spring Arts Preview: Our picks in Theater
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (231+ words) The world premiere musical Basura at Alliance Theatre, May 30 to July 12, is worth seeing just for the appearance of multiple Grammy award-winner Gloria Estefan, who is joining forces with her singer-songwriter daughter Emily to write the music and lyrics. Yet…...
11 Good Things with improv performer, producer and instructor Madeline Evans
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (680+ words) In this series,ArtsATLasks a member of the Atlanta arts community to share 11 things on their mind. We hope you enjoy getting to know these people better. Madeline Evans is an Atlanta improv performer, producer and instructor. With 15+ years of…...
Readers’ Choice in theater 2025: Review: Alliance’s ‘Millions’ is rich with strong performances, needs firmer finish
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (685+ words) Editor's note: We're resharing the stories that were the year's most-read from each of the disciplines we cover. The following article was exceptionally popular with our readers. Thank you for a wonderful 2025, and we look forward to bringing you more…...
Horizon’s and Dad’s new ‘Too Fast, Too Festivus’ is funny holiday fare for all Atlantans
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (499+ words) Horizon Theatre and Dad's Garage are teaming up again this holiday season to assure that Atlanta audiences of all ages find festive fun under the Horizon roof. While Horizon is once again staging the family show Madeline's Christmas, and Dad's…...
Review: Stage Door Theater’s ‘The Cottage’ opens the door to both realism and absurdity
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (280+ words) Where better than a cottage in the English countryside for a romantic getaway filled with rest, relaxation and scandalous reveals? The Cottage, a bawdy comedy running through October 19 at Stage Door Theatre, brings us inside one of these picturesque retreats…...
Steve on TV: Posh trash and an aggressively cozy crowd pleaser
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (489+ words) Steve Murray's monthly musings on TV in Atlanta and beyond. Executive Producer Robin Wright (who sleekly directs the first three of the six episodes) plays Laura Sanderson, owner of an art gallery, wife to wealthy property developer Howard (Waleed Zuaiter)…...
Review: Ben Kassoy offers surprising, genre-bending performance in ‘The Funny Thing About a Panic Attack’
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (843+ words) [Y]ou think you're dying. But you're not," begins Ben Kassoy's poem The Funny Thing About a Panic Attack." His one-man show of the same title, which ran at Emory University's Schwartz Center for the Arts on Friday, September 19, opened…...
Review: Topher Payne’s ‘First Lady’ is a win-win for all political audiences. And it’s funny, too.
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (542+ words) An old adage states that behind every great man there's a great woman. In A First Lady's Guide to Killing the President, the new comedy produced by the Process Theatre Co. at Onstage Atlanta, one great man needs to watch…...
Arts Agenda: Comedy
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (599+ words) Comedian actor and rapper Karlous Miller'began his comedy career in Atlanta and is widely known for his successful podcast and comedy tour The 85 South Show. He'll host the Invest Fest Comedy Show at Center Stage at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, August 21, with Navv…...