As part of its 2011-2012 season, Stage Door Players is presenting Ken Ludwig’s farce Lend Me a Tenor. Atlanta Theater Fans had the chance to ask Robert Egizio, Artistic Director of Stage Door Players and director of Lend Me a Tenor, some questions about the show. Read below to find out more about the play and why [...]

Copenhagen, a Tony Award® winner for Best Play, is a complex production that breaks coventional rules and forces the audience to grapple with the issue of nuclear profilieration, and it is currently being produced by Academy Theatre. In this Quick Chat with Copenhagen’s director Maggie McEnerny, read about the challenge of presenting a play told without a linear [...]

Who doesn’t want to grow up at some point? Whether you are a child at heart or have a children of your own, Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts is presenting Peter Pan. Fly with Peter to Neverland and join the adventures with the Lost Boys in this classic tale. For this Feature Q & A, Captain [...]

When Les Misérables’ 25th Anniversary Tour hits the Fox Theatre stage on April 24, it will be another homecoming for one of Georgia’s actors, Lauren Wiley. A Savannah native, Wiley has lived in Marietta and attended Mercer University and the University of Alabama. Returning to Atlanta not only offers a chance for her to reconnect [...]

Ring of Fire, a musical show that celebrates the music of Johnny Cash has opened at Georgia Ensemble Theatre. It features an ensemble of actors and musicians. The cast includes Scott DePoy, J.R. Hawkins, Denise Hillis, Chris Irwin, Tracy Vaden Moore, Mark Schroeder, and Jeremy Wood. Atlanta Theater Fans has had a chance to ask [...]

Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow opens on April 6. Atlanta Theater Fans has had the opportunity to ask Artistic Director (and the show’s director) Grant McGowen a few questions about the play. He also discusses working with actor Jayson Smith, Pinch ‘n’ Ouch Theatre’s new venue, and when the theatre’s next season will [...]

Whether it is gardening, dancing, painting or baseball, we all have a passion. For many of us, we are content to have the passion be a hobby, but for others, they chase the dream and make a career of it. For Billy Elliot the Musical’s Leah Hocking, finding and living your passion is one of [...]

Tom Thon Talking With… by Jane Martin opens March 9 with Out of Box Theatre, a new theater in the Atlanta area. Director Tom Thon discusses the production, the theater and more in our latest 10 Questions feature.   What drew you to Talking With… by Jane Martin? Well the first time or this time? [...]

The cast and crew of Faith Healer have taken the time to answer a few questions. A new production by JibJam Productions, the play is performed at 1st Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta. During the play each character describes the same event from their own perspective. Director Kyle Crew and actors Bryan Davis, Theo Harness and [...]

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet may have graced many valentines over the years. As a classic love story, the play has helped Atlantans celebrate Valentine’s Day for the past 13 years as one of [...]

While researching a role and preparing for a performance is nothing new to Tom Key, his preparation for playing Mark Rothko in the Theatrical Outfit production of the Red has been an intricate process. In the Tony Award® winning play by John Logan, Key plays artist Mark Rothko during the period of his life when he [...]

After performing in the Broadway production of Memphis, Felicia Boswell comes to Atlanta with the national tour of the musical, which opens at the Fox Theatre on January 31, in a role she feels destined to play. Most recently in Atlanta, Boswell performed the role of Mimi in Rent at the Atlanta Lyric Theatre, where [...]