Atlanta Theater Guide – Now Playing On Stage In Atlanta Theaters
Interested in what is playing at Atlanta’s professional theaters? Updated throughout the month, this Atlanta theater guide contains currently playing shows as well as links and phone numbers for tickets.
Atlanta Fringe Festival
May 9 to 13
A group of local artists, nonprofit professionals and other arts supporters have teamed up to found the annual Atlanta Fringe Festival, a performing arts festival that follows the “fringe” mission to provide an accessible, uncensored outlet for artists who would not otherwise be able to produce or present their work.
For a show schedule, venues and tickets, please visit http://atlantafringe.org/home/shows/.
A Wrinkle in Time
April 11 to May 6
Theatrical Outfit
Tickets: Box office 1-877-725-8849 or online
Based on the 1963 Newbery Medal-winning novel by Madeleine L’Engle. “It was a dark and stormy night”…when Meg Murry, an awkward, teenaged girl is transported on a fantastical journey to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the dark forces that hold him prisoner on another planet. This inventively staged, child-friendly science fiction adventure will delight audiences as they travel with these children, challenging concepts of time, space and triumph of good over evil.”
The Canterbury Tales
May 4 to May 27
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Tickets: Box Office 404-874-5299 or online
Join the Tavern for a medieval romp through boisterous and bawdy olde England. Drawing on the Celtic British influences of Geoffrey Chaucer’s writing, this hilarious adaptation reintroduces the tales in forms ranging from classical to spaghetti Western! We’re bringing back all your favorite tales.
Copenhagen
April 27 to May 20
Academy Theater
Tickets: Box Office 404-474-8332 or Online
In 1941, Heisenberg made the dangerous trip to Copenhagen to meet with his mentor. The details of their meeting have never been revealed, but two never spoke again. In the style of ‘Rashomon’, Michael Frayn presents his own ideas of the event in the Tony Award winning play. At its heart, this play questions who gets to decide who gets nuclear weapons and what responsibility scientists have to a human race which may not have the best interests for their discoveries at heart?
Photo by Chris Bartelski
The Fox on the Fairway
May 3 to May 27
Aurora Theatre
Tickets: Box Office 678-226-6222 or online
The play is written by the master of modern farce, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) who hits a hole-in-one with his tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s. Love and money are in the rough at the Quail Valley Country Club. Two rival country club owners waggle around mistaken identities and play through over-the-top romantic shenanigans in order to stay on the fairway and ace a happy ending. This uproarious golf comedy promises to hit the sweet spot.
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
April 4 to May 13
Alliance Theatre
Tickets: Box Office 404-733-5000 or online
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is a riveting Southern gothic tale fraught with mystery, tragedy and ghosts of the past. This haunting new musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp has a roots and blues-tinged score with Musical Direction by T Bone Burnett.
In the tiny town of Lake Belle Reve, Mississippi in 1957, a terrible tragedy took the lives of two brothers and a beautiful young girl. During the next forty years, the events of that night became the stuff of local legend. But legend is often just another word for lie. Joe McCandless knows what really happened; he saw it all. The question is whether or not he can bring himself to tell the truth in time to save his own troubled sons, and whether the ghosts left behind by an act of violence will help him – or tear the McCandless family apart forever.
Peachtree Battle
August 6, 2011 to August 31 2012
Ansley Park Playhouse
Tickets: Box Office 404-875-1193 or online
Playing ten years, Peachtree Battle is Atlanta’s longest running comedy. See what hilarity ensues when a wealthy socialite’s son brings home his surprise fiancée - a Hooter’s waitress. Throw in an alcoholic grandmother with a sharp wit, and you will have the set up for a chaotic homecoming.
Speed-the-Plow
April 6 to May 5
Pinch ‘N’ Ouch Theatre
Tickets: Box Office 1-800-838-3066 or online
Filled with playwright David Mamet’s trademark intense rapid-fire dialogue and provocative themes, “Speed-the-Plow” focuses on the ruthless nature of the Hollywood movie industry. Directed by Artistic Director Grant McGowen, it’s a behind the scenes story of handshaking, dealbreaking, and backstabbing as only Pulitzer Prize winner Mamet can tell it.
Tea Party
October 30 to August 31
Ansley Park Playhouse
Tickets: Box Office 404-875-1193 or online
Clarissa Cannon has worked her entire life to make sure her husband is on the next presidential election ticket; now, she’s not going to let a little thing like the “will of the people” stand in her way! Tea party centers around the family of Congressman Thurgood Cannon and his wife Clarissa. Ambitious to leave Mississippi and move to the White House, nothing can stop this formidable pair. Add in a matriarch who thinks she Harriet Tubman, a football star son, an aging former beauty queen, a clueless press secretary, along with many others, and you are guaranteed to have never met Republicans like these!
The Waffle Palace
May 11 to July 1
Horizon Theatre
Tickets: Box Office 404-584-7450 or online
From births to marriages, to police chases and lottery wins, anything can happen at 3 AM in the Waffle Palace. Inspired by amazing real life events at Waffle House restaurants, Larson and Lee (award winning playwrights of Horizon’s Charm School) let loose with this roller coaster of humor, music, and imagination in which John Pickett and his multi-racial staff battle to keep their Midtown diner open against heavy odds. The Waffle Palace: a place where everyone is welcome, and the only unforgivable sins are throwing waffles and under-tipping.
Xanadu
May 10 to June 16
Actor’s Express
Tickets: Box Office 404-607-SHOW or online
The surprise hit of the 2007-08 Broadway season roller skates its way into Actor’s Express in a frothy explosion of camp, comedy and disco! Xanadu uproariously sends up Olivia Newton-John’s notorious 1980 film of the same name, in which a feather-haired Greek muse with an Australian accent descends from Mount Olympus to modern-day California to help a hunky young man open a roller disco. Never has a movie begged more for parody – and Xanadu the musical delivers with delicious wit, pure fun and classic disco songs that will have you believing in magic and humming all the way home.
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