1) Hop City hosts a Left Hand beer tasting at Octane.
2) Grey Gardens continues at Actor’s Express.
3) Long Shadows play the Earl.
4) The Ones to Watch continues at Alan Avery Art Company.
5) Lenny’s hosts a Guitar Hero competition.
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1) Clues play Drunken Unicorn.
2) America I AM: The African American Imprint opens at Atlanta Civic Center with host Tavis Smiley.
3) Steve Earle plays the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
4) Vaudeville makes a comeback at Actor’s Express in Have Vaude, Ville Travel.
5) New York Dolls and Black Joe Lewis play Center Stage.
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1) Comedian Andy Kindler performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
2) Architect Anthony Ames lectures at the High Museum of Art.
3) Park Tavern hosts the River Revival Watershed Sessions to benefit Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.
4) The Center for Puppetry Arts launches Xperimental Puppetry Theater.
5) Zanna, Don’t! opens at Actor’s Express.
(Photo courtesy Andy Kindler)
CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman discuss two local stage plays that involve strong female characters: Horizon Theatre’s And Her Hair Went With Her and Actor’s Express’ Suddenly, Last Summer.
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1) The High Museum screens The Postmodern Life of My Aunt.
2) The Love Project opens at 7 Stages.
3) Comedian Al Madrigal performs at the Punchline.
4) Ladies Love Broadway kicks off at Actor’s Express.
5) Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines play Eddie’s Attic.
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1. GDOT, Amtrak throw wrench in Beltline plans (So as not to hog our top posts with Thomas Wheatley’s jealousy-inducing Beltline coverage, I’ll just tell you that this item and this one were also big hits.)
2. Internet conspiracy theorist predicts economic collapse next week (Only a few more days till financial Armageddon! Quick, stock up on bottled water, canned food, whiskey and Xanax!)
3. Apollo Holmes’ suicide a dead end in case of comatose trainer (The mystery of what happened to Darius Miller might have died with lone suspect.)
4. Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL: Rock me, sexy Jesus (Who doesn’t lust after Jesus? Um, on second thought, don’t answer that.)
5. Actor’s Express’ Mauritius takes a licking (It’s all about the second act.)
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HUSTLE AND FLOW: Bryan Brendle (left) and Chris Kayser in 'Mauritius'
Actor’s Express’s twisty thriller Mauritius turns on a question of authenticity: Is a pair of rare stamps really worth a seven-figure payout? Theresa Rebeck’s play explores issues of forgery and perceived value, questions that could be applied to Mauritius itself, which initially resembles a facsimile of American Buffalo.
David Mamet’s 1975 classic depicts a trio of losers in a hole-in-the-wall junk shop planning a score around a rare coin. For a while, Mauritius comes across as a Mamet-wannabe with women added to the mix. The play proves truly worthy in its second act, as if the real thing were only disguised as a fake. (more…)
1) The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival wraps up its program with Bart Got a Room.
2) Carbonas play the Earl with Fucked Up.
3) Mauritius opens at Actor’s Express.
4) The Virgins play Drunken Unicorn.
5) Comedian Christian Finnegan performs at the Punchline.
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Beloved Atlanta performer Libby Whittemore brings her cabaret act — and loyal fan base — back to Actor’s Express for Ho Ho Home for the Holidays and A Connie Sue Day Christmas from Dec. 6-21. For years Whittemore honed the show with longtime music director Robert Strickland at the now closed club Libby’s, A Cabaret. A self-described “Christmas idiot,” Whittemore sings secular holiday standards in the first act, and in the second half takes the stage as her high-haired alter ego Connie Sue Day, “the 31st Lady of Country Music.” Here, she lists some of her essential Christmas songs from the show, in addition to “Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas.”
1. “Christmas Time is Here:” “In the first part of show I talk about when I was little and my family traditions, so I sing this from the TV special ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas.’ Every time you bring up memories from childhood, it’s funny. Every year I try to watch ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ and ‘Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ and I definitely watch White Christmas.”
2. “Santa Baby:” “I don’t like any of the Christmas novelty songs, like ‘Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer,’ except for ‘Santa Baby.’ Eartha Kitt definitely put her own stamp on it. I’m not trying to do a better version than her, I’m just trying to do it justice. It’s Eartha Kitt, for God’s sake.”
Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about the play The New Century, directed by Alan Kilpatrick, at Actor’s Express. (Through Nov. 22)
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Uncle Grampa’s Hoo-Dilly Story Time, the children’s show at Inman Park’s Dad’s Garage Theatre, offered both a surprise guest and some surprisingly cogent economic commentary at Saturday’s performance. Each installment features an improvised children’s story enacted by such human characters as Larry Lederhosen (Matt Horgan) and Fritz the Evil Butler (Ryan Lucas) as well as various puppet friends including Jambles the Donkey (Christian Danley) and Quackers the Wrong-Way Duck (Lucky Yates).
On Saturday, the gang prepared to improvise the tale of “The Princess of Candy” when who should appear but Sean Daniels, the theater’s former artistic director and current associate artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Daniels emerged on a walker, festooned with bandages and arm braces, claiming to be “David Dow Jones,” who had suffered many “falls.” Larry Lederhosen et al concluded that Dow Jones could be revived if the children in the audience clapped and chanted “Bail-out! Bail-out! Bail-out!” The applause magically rejuvenated Dow Jones, who jumped into the air and clicked his heels together. Jambles and Quacker remarked that the children should be applauded for taking bold, decisive action to save Dow Jones, but added that they’d be paying for the bail-out until they’re 70.
Daniels wasn’t just in town for a cameo in a kid’s show, however: he’s directing the staged reading of Bellwether, a new play by former Creative Loafing employee Steve Yockey. From the official description: “The disappearance of 6-year old Amy Draft shocks the modern, affluent suburb of Inverness. And as questions go unanswered, initially sympathetic neighbors begin to whisper suspiciously about the girl’s distraught parents, Alan and Jackie. When the abduction abruptly leaps in magnitude, the entire community unravels into a seething mass of confusion and media frenzy.” The reading of Bellwether features a plethora of terrific local stage actors — Kate Donadio, Maia Knispel, Park Krausen, Jonathan MacQueen, Daniel May, Stacy Melich, Meghan Moonan, Joe Sykes, Kathleen Wattis and Rachel Winograd — so the $5 admission seems a real bargain for Monday night’s performance at 7:30 p.m. at Actor’s Express.
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If you haven’t yet scratched your itch for the Inch, you’re in luck. The Actor’s Express production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch has been extended to Saturday, July 26 (the original closing was scheduled for this Saturday, July 19). That’s right, math whizzes, that’s seven extra days to catch the rockin’est musical in town. One more week to get some Hed.
Hedheads and first-timers alike can go to Actor’s Express for more information on the show or to purchase tickets.
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