1) Atlanta Opera’s Il Trovatore finishes its run at the Cobb Energy Centre.
2) William Elliott Whitmore plays Drunken Unicorn.
3) The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company celebrates its 25th anniversary.
4) Comedian Robert Schimmel performs at the Funny Farm.
5) A Man for All Seasons opens at Theatre in the Square.
(Photo by J.D. Scott)
THREE WISE MEN: Hugh Adams (left), Barry Stoltze and Brik Berkes in Theatrical Outfit's 'It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.'
Something about radio seems particularly suited to the holidays, perhaps because we grow up with the tradition of radio stations switching to all-Christmas formats after Thanksgiving. Several theaters, including Theatrical Outfit and the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, are staging holiday plays that tap into the live radio format. Even if a performance isn’t going out over the airwaves, the audience still feels a charge when that “ON THE AIR” sign lights up.
The 1940s Radio Hour, for years a perennial holiday show at Marietta’s Theatre in the Square and playing this year at Dahlonega’s Holly Theater, evokes the spirit, songs and commercials of the WW II era. From Dec. 3-21, Theatrical Outfit harks back to roughly the same period with a remount of last year’s Christmas show, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, which imagines Frank Capra’s classic film performed for an audience by five actors. (more…)
1) Jim Henson’s Fantastic World opens at Atlanta History Center.
2) Fringe Factory Explodes the Plastic Inevitable at Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge.
3) TV on the Radio plays the Tabernacle.
4) Atlanta Radio Theatre Company presents H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space at Academy Theatre.
5) Harmony in Life plays Sugarhill.
(Photo by John E. Barrett/© The Muppets Studio, LLC)
