http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews News and reviews from the Atlanta theater scene. en-us wbrock@ajc.com 2008-03-03T16:52:32-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/03/03/bye_bye_bloggie.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews Dear Readers: I’m not going anywhere. But the theater blog is moving. Actually, it’s being consolidated into the blog known as ATLarts. Please bookmark this link to find the ATLarts Blog. If you are looking for theater news only, just... 2072502@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-03-03T16:52:32-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/28/alliance_to_pro.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews As part of its 40th anniversary season, the Alliance Theatre will stage a new gospel version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and the composer of “Cats” and “Phantom of the Opera” will collaborate on project. Opening in January,... 1966002@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-28T13:30:41-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/27/the_missionary.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: C Check the headlines for news about your favorite politician, and you may find an uncanny resemblance to the goings-on in Keith Reddin’s “The Missionary Position.” Smear tactics. Grotesque photographs posted on the Internet. Shady real-estate deals.... 1935502@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-27T15:28:28-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/21/angelas_mixtape.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B- Eisa Davis was still in her mother’s womb when her aunt became one of the most famous political prisoners of the 20th century. In 1970, after Angela Davis’ gun was used in the murder of a... 1776802@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-21T16:05:42-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/21/high_school_mus_2.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews Theater of the Stars has got is head in the game of Disney’s “High School Musical” — again. Last year, the Atlanta producer mounted the first professional stage version of the tween phenomenon. Disney liked the show so much they... 1769502@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-21T12:39:16-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/19/august_wilson_m_2.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews Three Atlanta high school students are headed to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., where they will reprise their prize-winning speeches from True Colors Theatre’s August Wilson Monologue Competition. William Combs, a junior from East Point’s Tri-Cities High School, took... 1702102@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-19T09:44:33-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/14/theater_review_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B - Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) once proclaimed that he was unfit for the presidency and, based on the facts, he may have been right. The Ohio Republican made whoopee with his mistress in a closet adjacent... 1620102@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-14T16:29:48-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/14/southern_comfor.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: C+ Kathleen Clark’s “Southern Comforts” is a valentine to autumnal romance. Anyone who has trouble dealing with the idea that Grandma or Grandpa has fallen in love — or, heaven forbid, lust — will find this Theatrical... 1619702@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-14T16:21:58-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/12/raisin_runup_an.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews You’ll be reading more about ABC’s Feb. 25 broadcast of “A Raisin in the Sun,” directed by Atlanta’s Kenny Leon, in the coming days. But fans of Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald (who won Tony Awards for the Broadway production... 1556402@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-12T13:00:17-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/12/theater_communi.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews This past weekend, just a few days after Super Tuesday, I caught Dad’s Garage’s “Poker Night at the White House,” by Chicago Neo-Futurist Sean Benjamin. The raucous satire of presidential incompetent Warren G. Harding, which I’ll be reviewing in Friday’s... 1555902@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-12T12:37:40-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/07/in_the_red_and.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B+ Something dreamy and magical is brewing beneath the surface of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “In the Red and Brown Water.” You know this because his characters sometimes talk funny, as if an invisible spirit is telling them... 1470102@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-07T17:30:04-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/07/hard_love_jewis.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B+ Hannah is forbidden by Jewish law to look at the man she has invited into her ultra-Orthodox home in Jerusalem. But she is in love with him, and worn down by life, and she will soon... 1466802@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-07T15:28:29-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/02/05/resurrection_tr.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. B- Daniel Beaty has an uncanny ability to crawl in and out of the skin of a variety of characters of his own invention. As a slam poet and playwright, this human chameleon’s overarching concern is the plight... 1389102@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-02-05T17:11:34-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/01/31/octopus_actors.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: C Steve Yockey’s “Octopus” has gotten me to thinking about a phenomenon that I have decided to name “dramaturgical glee.” A director or literary manager — somebody in the theater community — will get hold of a... 1293702@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-01-31T17:27:33-05:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/entries/2008/01/30/critics_pick_an.html?cxntfid=blogs_theater_reviews THEATER REVIEW. Grade: B At home and at school, Anne Frank was a little chatterbox. So her father gave her a diary and told her to write down her thoughts. Her “Dear Kitty” letters, describing her family’s attempt to hide... 1258702@http://www.accessatlanta.com/arts/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/theater/ 2008-01-30T12:44:48-05:00