1) Bob Théâtre presents Nosferatu at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
2) Jay-Z and Ciara perform at Chastain Park Amphitheater.
3) Horizon Theatre stages A Cool Drink a Water.
4) DJ Spooky’s ReBirth of a Nation makes its Atlanta premiere at Le Bam Art Space.
5) Eli Keszler performs at Eyedrum.
(Photo by LL de Mars)
1) The Rock ’n’ Roll Monster Bash returns to Starlight Six Drive-In.
2) Evolver Atlanta presents EvolverFest at the Lake Claire Community Land Trust.
3) Randall Bramblett and Geoff Achison perform at Eddie’s Attic.
4) Summerfest winds down in Virginia-Highland with a performance by Manchester Orchestra.
5) End Days continues at Horizon Theatre.
(Photo by Frank Mullen/Matteblack)
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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WATERED DOWN: Annie (Bari Newport, top) tries to douse some common sense into her boyfriend Vincent (Chad Martin).
Horizon Theatre’s romantic comedy The 13th of Paris sets up a battle between the modern-day American and classic French conceptions of love, which promises to be a mismatch of David vs. Goliath proportions.
Sauve boulevardier Jacques (Mark Kincaid) extols the grand passions and gestures of Gallic romance, while his mixed-up American grandson Vincent (Chad Martin) helplessly counters with the casual, sexually utilitarian contemporary relationship. Jacques asks if Vincent ever writes love letters to his girlfriend Annie (Bari Newport), and the younger man replies, “We text each other a lot.”
The play finds Vincent in an emotional frazzle, having taken a spontaneous plane trip from his Chicago home to his grandparents’ flat in Paris’ 13th arrondissement. Despite his happiness with free-spirited Annie, Vincent worries they’re destined to devolve into the kind of uncommunicative middle-aged couple you see at restaurants. He hopes to find perspective on love through the trip to Paris, his grandparents’ love letters and Jacques’ advice, which comes from imaginary conversations — Jacques and his beloved Chloe (Carolyn Cook) died before Vincent was born.
1) Over the Top opens at Philips Arena.
2) Winston Audio has a CD release party at Drunken Unicorn.
3) The 13th of Paris opens at Horizon Theatre.
4) All the Saints and the N.E.C. play Star Bar.
5) Inauguration opens at Beep Beep Gallery.
(Photo Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey)
The Clickable Advent Calendar is almost over for 2008, so here are some items I couldn’t get to, in the spirit of “stocking stuffers.”
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention humorist David Sedaris, who made his name with acerbic commentaries on Christmas, particularly The Santaland Diaries (the theatrical version of which currently runs at Horizon Theatre and stars Harold Leaver, whom I interviewed in 2004). This year, for some reason I’m flashing on Sedaris’s “Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol” in which a typically caustic theater critic takes on a school pageant.
Other favorite holiday TV shows include “Justice League’s” Christmas-themed “Comfort and Joy” (which features a great subplot in which the Flash and a bad guy called the Ultra-Humanite team up to give some orphans an impossible-to-find Christmas gift), the “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” and pretty much any “South Park” Christmas installment. (I found this video of Cartman’s “Swiss Colony Beef Log” via a The Onion A.V. Club.)
Slate has “A slide show of some of America’s weirdest holiday light displays” (I particularly like #2, from Batesville, Miss.)
The blog Musical Fruitcake lives up to its billing as “A collection of the worst Christmas songs ever recorded.” Hear a girl sing “Mom and Dad, Please Don’t Steal for Me This Christmas.” Speaking of Christmas music, Andisheh drew my attention to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog post on MORE Christmas Disco!
Alejandro pointed out the Elf Yourself site, and since I saw it, I know at least one friend who’s elfed-up her family.
For atheists and agonistics alienated at advent, here’s Thomas Bell’s secular variation on “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” “Yes Shirley, There is a wide body of evidence suggesting there may be a higher order to the universe.”
And finally, for your Christmas Eve reading, “A Download from St. Nicholas:”
1) Introductions: Twelve New Artists You Need to Know continues at Bennett Street Gallery.
2) Jackson Sneed plays Smith’s Olde Bar.
3) Kimo Minton’s Pivotal Beauty continues at TEW Galleries.
4) Madeline’s Christmas continues at Horizon Theatre.
5) Yes Man continues at area theaters.
(Image by Courtney Garrett)
Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about two current musicals: Horizon Theatre’s Alter Boyz (through Nov. 16) and Theatrical Outfit’s Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (through Oct. 5).
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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman giving a round up of the upcoming fall 2008 theater season, featuring Theatrical Outfit’s Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Sept. 10-Oct. 5), Horizon Theatre’s Altar Boyz (Sept. 12-Nov. 16), 7 Stages’ The Little Prince (Sept. 27-Oct. 26) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Oct. 18-Nov. 2), and Full Circle, the Alliance Theatre’s two-play/one-cast repertory of August Wilson’s The Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf.
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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about two current shows: Hallelujah Street Blues at Horizon Theatre (through Aug. 24) and FWD: at Dad’s Garage (through Aug. 2).
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