1) The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival returns to the Tara.
2) Bad Brains play the Masquerade.
3) True Colors Theatre’s Miss Evers’ Boys opens at Southwest Arts Center.
4) Flogging Molly plays the Tabernacle.
5) Rodes Fishburne reads from Going to See the Elephant at A Cappella Books.
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FELLOWSHIP OF THE SING: Shay Latte as an angel (left), Galen Williams as Joseph, Kelly Young as Mary, Sam Collier as an angel
Audiences could be forgiven for worrying that True Colors Theatre Company’s Black Nativity might evoke a high school’s annual birth of Jesus holiday pageant. The perennial musical’s first half takes place “When Christ was born” and hits all the requisite beats of the first Christmas: angels, shepherds, Magi, etc. Plus, True Colors follows a similar approach as its recent holiday productions of The Wiz by casting primarily high school and college students as well as some recent graduates.
Fortunately, Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity resembles a revue more than a plot-and-character-driven musical. The material turns out to be an ideal vehicle for the young ensemble, since director/choreographer Patdro Harris and music director J. Michael can cast to the performers’ individual strengths, while acting never really becomes an issue. (more…)
Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about True Colors Theatre Company’s Swimming Upstream, an evening of stories, songs and spoken-word poetry about Hurricane Katrina and the women of New Orleans. (Through Nov. 16)
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1) True Colors Theatre Company’s Swimming Upstream opens at 14th Street Playhouse.
2) British lads Coldplay visit Philips Arena.
3) Laura Claridge discusses her book, Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
4) Sammy Kershaw plays Andrew’s Upstairs.
5) Signs of Reappropriation continues at Atlanta College of Art Gallery.
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Which is worth more, a bucket of nails or a multimillion-dollar development project? Watch the two plays of the Alliance Theatre’s August Wilson Full Circle, a theatrical event more than 20 years in the making, and you’ll discover they have equal value: Each may be precisely worth the life of an African-American man.
Full Circle stages the Atlanta debuts of the final two plays in playwright August Wilson’s “Century Cycle” of heavyweight dramas. Also called “the Pittsburgh Cycle,” Wilson’s landmark project consists of 10 plays, mostly set in Pittsburgh’s African-American Hill District, with each script representing a different decade of the 20th century.
The Gem of the Ocean, set in 1904, takes place in a house on Pittsburgh’s Wylie Street, and involves two men whose fates hinge on a seemingly trivial theft from an oppressive mill. In Radio Golf, ambitious developer Harmond Wilks sets his fortune on a 1997 land deal that will launch his mayoral campaign and revitalize the Hill District, unless questions over that same Wylie Street house demolish his plans.
The Gem of the Ocean/Radio Golf twofer, playing on alternate nights and featuring the same actors doubling up, would be must-see theater based on the strength of the shows alone. August Wilson Full Circle proves even bigger than the sum of its parts. It marks the beginning of the Alliance Theatre’s 40th anniversary season, caps off the late playwright’s epic decalogue of American theater, and provides a kind of personal culmination and homecoming for director Kenny Leon, former artistic director of the Alliance.
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Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about True Colors Theatre Company’s The Amen Corner. (Through Aug. 3)
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.
