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WEBARTS ATL offers comprehensive coverage of Atlanta's arts scene, including music, film and TV, books, theater, dance and the visual arts. Our events calendar includes every concert, gallery opening, festival and more. As a nonprofit, ARTS ATL supports the arts in Atlanta through independent journalism and programs.
Mike Geier and the origins of Puddles Pity Party - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 25, 2019 · Editor’s note: In the summer of 2013, when ArtsATL’s Jeff Stafford sat down to chat with singer Mike Geier, he was preparing for a club performance with the Kingsized Jazz Trio and had just developed the alternate character of a clown named Puddles who had a cabaret act called Puddles Pity Party.By 2017, Puddles was being cheered in living rooms across America due to Geier’s performances ...
The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 3, 2019 · The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo -- brown, queer, disabled and revolutionary - ARTS ATL. "I never paint dreams or nightmares," Frida Kahlo once said. "I paint my own reality." The turbulent life and love of the Mexican painter (1907–54) are the subject of The Atlanta Opera's "Frida," with performances October 5, 9, 11 and 13.
An in-depth conversation with “The Color Purple” author Alice …
WEBJul 17, 2019 · Walker, whose actual birthday is February 9, was born in Eatonton to parents who worked as sharecroppers. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Color Purple and close to 40 other books. Over the course of her 50-year career, she has worked as an artist, activist and educator, and she was a contributor to the feminist ...
Rick Beato brings his YouTube universe to the stage at Variety ...
WEBSep 25, 2023 · Beato will do a live version of his YouTube show Thursday night at the Variety Playhouse. He will teach, perform, answer audience questions and talk with some of his regular guests. The show also will feature a reunion concert of Billionaire, the band he helped form that originally brought him to Atlanta. Beato’s YouTube channel echoes his ...
First Look: Your early guide to the Atlanta Art Fair - ARTS ATL
WEBAug 26, 2024 · Poem 88. Atlanta. Poem 88 has the unique mission of combining a rigorous sense of the avant garde with a commitment to fairness as a concept. Whether it comes to ensuring representation of women and older artists or challenging institutions to serve as a model of fairness for the community, Poem 88 has been at the forefront of ensuring that art is about more than commerce.
Aurora Theatre opens Lawrenceville Arts Center with public tours …
WEBOctober 20, 2021. After much anticipation, the curtain rises this week on the $35 million, 59,500-square-foot Lawrenceville Arts Center, as it hosts grand opening tours Friday through Sunday. Completing a city block for the arts in downtown Lawrenceville, the complex is the product of a remarkable partnership between Aurora Theatre and the City ...
Terminus Ballet to present new narrative work by Atlanta Ballet's ...
WEBSep 20, 2023 · One of the premieres launching the company’s 2023-24 season on September 23 in its new White Box Theater in Buckhead is The Adoption of Faith, a new, mostly literal narrative work by choreographer and Atlanta Ballet dancer Darian Kane. Kane was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch in 2022.” (Photo by Jennifer Zmuda)
Review: Aurora’s ‘Color Purple’ gives a few new hues to a Georgia ...
WEBAug 20, 2024 · The Color Purple is very much about the strength of women overcoming adversity, including Sofia (Shena Renee), whose independence is initially taken away after she is arrested due to a confrontation with the mayor’s wife. Few projects have roots in Georgia the way The Color Purple does. Walker’s …
Review: Playwright Lauren Gunderson reframes “herstory” in “The ...
WEBMar 15, 2016 · Kelundra Smith reviews Lauren Gunderson's "The Revolutionists" at 7 Stages, about the importance of women being accounted for and written down.