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Starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock—but not really. They’re in the move but newcomer, Thomas Horn is clearly the star. Making headlines for winning first place and $31,800 in prize money on “Jeopardy!” this is Horn’s first movie role. With the big blue eyes of a model and the mind of a whiz kid, he’s perfect in…

Twenty-five trees and displays highlight holiday traditions around the world including Christmas, Hanukkah and the Festival of Lights. Trees are decorated, not necessarily as one would decorate a tree in that country or region, but rather to highlight a tradition or culture from the area.

The Consulat e…

The play opens with Tovah Feldshuh as Golda Meir sitting at a table in her robe.  For ninety minutes Ms. Feldshuh delivers rapid-fire dialog. She’s the only person on stage. There are no scene changes and no wardrobe changes other than removing and replacing the robe and a suit jacket. Yet this…

Set in New York in the 1920’s, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical-lover’s musical. The whimsical set of cartoon-like buildings and street scenes magically morphs into interiors for the office and boarding house. There are bright costumes, cheerful singing and large ensemble dances.

Millie…

Tova Feldshuh walked on stage a well-dressed, attractive, 50’ish woman. At the lectern she greeted the audience with, “I’m in menopause; not the musical.” She continued amidst the laughter, “Menopause is God’s way of saying, ‘thanks for the children, now bye-bye!’”

Then, right in front of our eyes, she pulled her stylish shoulder-length brown hair into a pony tail at the nape of her neck and became—yes became—Golda Meir. It was amazing to see! Hair, wardrobe and makeup didn’t change.…

It’s a fast-paced, up-tempo musical that intertwines five popular fairy tales on a wonderfully imaginative set. In the tradition of fairy tales and…

On September 10, 1982, Marietta’s Theatre in the Square opened with its first performance, On Golden Pond which, just a year earlier had been made into a movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda.

On August 10 of this year Palmer Wells, one of the founders along with many of the…

I just attended the Atlanta premiere of the movie PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES where the opening scene shows newspapers rolling off the presses. 

Earlier today, having lunch with a young writer I watched her eyes widen as I told her about working for a newspaper in the 1980’s…

The Art Aquatic at the W Hotel in downtown Atlanta last night was a unique event. The reception in the Wetbar on the 16^th floor displayed a video and a few framed prints but it was just a gateway to the main feature. The bar opens out onto the pool which overlooks the city. In the pool, photographer Lisa Reilly was photographing models underwater. The models were in full makeup and dressed in sheer flowing fabrics. Individually, they would enter the pool where the photographer…

An appetizer, according to the dictionary, is “a stimulating sample; a sample of something that is meant to stimulate an interest.” That aptly describes the Alliance Theatre’s Taste of the Season.

Artistic Director, Susan Booth (photo) started to welcome the audience but actors Chris…

The “nudity and explicit content” warning I read before seeing this play didn’t prevent my surprise as the play opened with a fully nude sex scene between the butler and the maid. Interrupted by a vigorous knock on the door the maid covers herself and rushes off set. The butler doesn’t. The audience is faced with full frontal male nudity. Brody Wellmaker who played Arthur, the butler was…uh…remarkable well equipped to play this role!

Answering the door to find the maître d'hotel they…

Lord have mercy!

If you love theatre you don’t want to miss seeing this ensemble of amazing actors in this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play written by Tracy Letts and directed by Susan Booth. But if your guilty pleasures include Jerry Springer and any show with “Real Housewives” in the title then this is one play you must see! Billed as a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family it’s really more of an American tragedy on…

Catherine Deneuve stars as Suzanne, a woman coming into her own during the late seventies. The servants take care of the house, the mistresses take care of the husband, the husband takes care of business. Suzanne is beginning to feel that she has no place in her own life. Even her daughter openly declares that she never wants to be like her mother, a Potiche! (Trophy wife)

Then things change abruptly. Her husband, Robert is taken hostage by the rebelling employees at the umbrella…

  Advertised as “A comic quest for love and legacy across time,” this play was much more than I expected. More depth, more breadth, more fun! Starting with historical characters then bouncing back to modern-day scenes the show had sex and science, romance and reasoning, energy and enlightenment.

Émilie du Châtelet, a French mathematician, physicist and author was one of the lovers of Voltaire, another well-known writer, historian…

“It’s just big stupid fun!” Jenny Costantino of KICK Strategy, LLC said with a laugh at the reception after Thursday night’s opening of Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits! at the Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell.

The play, created and written by Gerald Alessandrini and directed by Don Farrell is a musical parody of Broadway’s biggest hits. Jeffery Herndon was marvelous on the piano as he accompanied the strong, rich voices of the ensemble which includes Wendy Melkonian,…

Things get crazy when Brady swipes the photo of the college-age homeowner’s daughter as a souvenir from the heist. Swooning over the wealthy,…

Some people claim to be bitten by the acting bug. Don Farrell had the desire to perform knocked into him. In 8^th grade at Roswell High School he went out for football but signed up late. Once on the field and was hit hard, his ill-fitting equipment offering little protection. With the wind…

I loved, loved, loved Cloris Leachman’s one-woman show at the Buckhead Theatre Friday night! I expected her to be funny and outrageous but she delivered much more than I expected.

Cloris entered the stage to a standing ovation. The beautifully restored Buckhead Theatre was over half fulled with an audience…

Dishonesty, deception, betrayal! Marietta’s Theatre in the Square was the setting for The Little Foxes. The newly expanded lobby was warm and welcoming. The theater, big enough to seat a good crowd but small enough to be intimate, was almost filled on this rainy mid-week night. Our front row seats were so close to the stage that we could see the rich texture of the beautiful period gowns and tweed suits.

The play takes place in the living room of the home of…

“It’s a U-NI-CORN!”the little boy screamed with joy as he ran to the center of the room at Fernbank’s Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids exhibit. Adults and older children moved more slowly through the show viewing the displays and reading the information that explains many of the…