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At a gallery in southwest Atlanta, charming portraits of girlhood

Arnika Dawkins Gallery on Cascade Road in southwest Atlanta is probably not what most people expect when they envision an art gallery. The gallery occupies a small, neatly landscaped home with butter yellow siding — mystifyingly free of signage — tucked onto a residential street next to ranch homes and ...

Pulitzer Prize winning poet to read at Emory

The last time you read a poem, did you read it to yourself silently? If so, poet W.S. Merwin believes there’s no way you could have fully detected its true meaning. To do that, a poem must be read aloud. Maybe read aloud only to yourself, but read aloud nonetheless. ...

Horticulturists Lindsey Blackmon (left) and Trey Fletcher tend to the beard of the “Ogre” at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The piece is part of the “Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life” exhibit that opens Saturday at the garden. Nineteen monumental sculptures, each created from thousands of groomed annuals growing within an invisible metal armature, make up the exhibit. Visitors will encounter a grazing unicorn, a pair of gigantic cobras and a 23-foot-tall goddess emerging from the earth. It’s all the handiwork of International Mosaiculture of Montreal.

‘Imaginary Worlds’ at Botanical Garden gets your imagination growing

“Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life” doesn’t officially open until Saturday at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, but early, rather spontaneous reviews of the exhibition have been encouraging. A week ago, as many of the 19 sculptures festooned with 118,000 living plants were still being installed, excited guests moved about the ...

“Lady Lay” tears this Berlin Wall down

As the Berlin Wall collapses around her, a desensitized civil servant discovers her heart and soul through the songs of Bob Dylan in “Lady Lay,” a thoughtful and touching comedy by German playwright Lydia Stryk. 7 Stages’ alternately warm and fanciful production, a U.S. premiere, marks the first directorial effort ...

Ramsey Lewis to shine under the stars

When Ramsey Lewis’ father, Ramsey Sr., pulled up stakes and left Augusta for Chicago, he became part of the Great Migration of southern African-Americans seeking better fortunes in the North. One thing he didn’t leave behind was his love of music, which he and his wife cultivated in their son. ...

‘Sister Act’ joyously silly

“Sister Act” has been in the habit of making us laugh for more than 20 years. First came the 1992 screwball film with Whoopi Goldberg as the sassy singer turned nun on the run. Then the musical adaptation developed at the Alliance Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse during the 2006-2007 season. ...

Kathryn Evans, a double-bass player in the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, is a member of the ArtsVibe Teen Council that helped organize this weekend’s free-to-the-public Voices & Vibes Teen Festival at the Woodruff Arts Center. The Marietta 16-year-old said she’s excited to have the opportunity “to broaden people’s awareness of the arts while sharing my passion for classical music.” Photo credit: Contributed by Jeff Roffman

Voices & Vibes Festival at Woodruff aims to put fine arts on teen wavelength

Many arts leaders look at their aging audiences and worry who will be their patrons and subscribers of tomorrow. Meanwhile, teenagers, many of whose schools have trimmed arts education, are simply looking for something fun to do.Turning under-engaged teens into budding fine arts aficionados is the impetus behind the Wells ...

Georgia Ensemble Theatre’s musical “Hello, Dolly!” features Courtenay Collins (clockwise from left), Daniel J. Cook and Jeff McKerley.

Old reliable ‘Hello Dolly’ benefits from its leading lady

Musical productions aren’t exactly virgin territory for Georgia Ensemble Theatre. Over the course of its 20-year career, the company has routinely put on the sort of revue-format shows that highlight the greatest hits of everyone from Buddy Holly and Patsy Cline to Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Heaven knows there’s ...

DIrector Jerry Zaks says that at its heart “Sister Act” is an unlikely sort of love story. Hollis Resnick plays the no-nonsense Mother Superior and Ta’Rea Campbell is the outrageous Deloris Van Cartier.

“Sister Act”: Still funny after all these years

Few people would think to describe “Sister Act” as a love story. But Jerry Zaks, the four-time Tony Award-winning director of the hit Broadway musical which arrives at the Fox Theater next week, insists that’s the secret of its appeal. The 1992 comedy film starred Whoopi Goldberg as Deloris Van ...

Adam Jacobs plays the title role in the Alliance Theatre’s production of “Zorro,” running through May 5.

Theater review: ‘Zorro’ a bit cluttered but still sparky and fun

In the early 1800s, an aristocratic patriarch living in California packs his son off to university in Spain. Leaving behind a cauldron of family dysfunction and social upheaval, young Diego joins a band of flamenco-dancing gypsies and eventually creates a zigzag double identity as the masked crusader Zorro. Etched in ...

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Atlanta author offers insight into tragedy

Three years after his disappearance from his hometown of Atlanta at age 11, Caleb Vincent is found very much alive, attending school and living with a doctor who claims to have rescued the boy from a pedophile ring. Caleb, renamed Nicky, calls the man his father. Charles Lundy, aka “Jolly,” ...

Atlanta-born writer Blair Koenig’s new book uses a bit of snark to deflate self-indulgent parents who share too much information online about their children.

Book takes on social-media parenting

Poop pictures. Cyber mommy cat fights. Detailed accounts of changing a baby’s diaper on a table at Burger King. Sometimes, Facebook newsfeeds are not for the faint of heart. These kinds of parental social media “overshares” pushed Blair Koenig to write a blog, which turned into her new book, “STFU, ...

Spencer G. Stephens gives direction during rehearsals for the Center for Puppetry Arts’ production of “Brer Rabbit & Friends.”

A new take on the tales of Brer Rabbit

Brer Rabbit was a wily creature, but even he had trouble with the Tar Baby, a trap set for him by the dastardly Brer Fox. “Brer Rabbit & Friends,” the sunny, clever and tuneful production by the Center for Puppetry Arts, which opens Thursday, is as wily as the rabbit ...

Roast swan is the main dish for a group of gluttons in David Bintley’s “Carmina Burana.” The Atlanta Ballet’s production, which is based on medieval morality tales, is given a modern twist by choreographer David Bintley. Photo by Roy Smiljar.

Bintley brings fun, passion to ‘Carmina Burana’

Choreographer David Bintley’s run-in with Fate in the cantata “Carmina Burana” changed his own. Circumstances surrounding his dance production pushed him to blend ballet tradition with pop culture imagery for a story that feels as contemporary as Wall Street shenanigans. Atlanta Ballet’s staging of the North American premiere of Bintley’s ...

3 fun things in Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Lawrenceville

DUNWOODY The Atlanta Balalaika Society Orchestra at Dunwoody United Methodist Church These Russian and Eastern European folk musicians wear traditional outfits while playing equally traditional instruments. Audience members will watch as conductor David C. Cooper shows his soloing ability on the balalaika, a three-stringed instrument with a fretboard and triangular ...

William S. Murphey (from left), Tom Key, Glenn Rainey and Daniel Hilton portray members of a barbershop quartet in Theatrical Outfit’s “The Fabulous Lipitones.” PHOTO CREDIT: BreeAnne Clowdus. HANDOUT PHOTO

‘Lipitones’ amuses, but a few notes don’t ring true

In Mark St. Germain’s hospital drama “The God Committee,” a group of medical professionals debated ethics and which of four patients would get an emergency heart transplant. His quasi-historical “Freud’s Last Session” contemplated science vs. religion by imagining an encounter between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and theologian C.S. Lewis. Both plays ...

A Gipsy style of dancing in a Broadway style play is apparent during rehearsals for Zorro at the Alliance Theatre on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, in Atlanta. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM

Zorro swashbuckles on Atlanta stage

Before there was Clark Kent as Superman, Bruce Wayne as Batman or Peter Parker as Spider-Man, there was Diego de la Vega as Zorro. Whatever this earlier masked man/caped crusader lacks in terms of out-of-this-world superpowers, he more than makes up for in down-to-earth bravado. Introduced in a 1919 magazine ...

A King Henry VIII lookalike rules annually at the Georgia Renaissance Festival .Costumed characters will roam the 32-acre kingdom as this year’s festival, and guests can eat and shop like it’s 1499.

Spring festivals beckon you to come outside

Among the many reasons people relish living in metro Atlanta is the splendidness of spring, and what better way to shrug off winter blahs than attending one of the many festivals that mark the season.Spring festivals get you outside to browse artist markets, let the kids burn off excess energy ...

3 fun things in Henry, Cobb and Gwinnett

LOCUST GROVE Zebra Dash at Noah’s Ark This 5K run/walk event finds participants putting their best hooves forward at the animal rehabilitation facility and zoo. The habitat is home to a slew of exotic wildlife and domestic animals from big cats to traditional farm animals. The third annual race is ...

Actor Clifton Powell, director of "My Brother Marvin," the untold story of late R&B singer Marvin Gaye, in a scene with Lynn Whitfield, who plays Gaye's mother, and Keith Washington, who plays Marvin in his latter years. The drama opens April 5 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.

Play about Marvin Gaye’s life, death aims to set the record straight

If you’ve ever wondered what the truth of singer Marvin Gaye’s life might look like, or asked why an ordained Pentecostal minister would kill his own son, the play “My Brother Marvin” promises answers. The show, written and adapted for the stage by playwright Angela Dunlap, opens for a three-day ...

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