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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 ...
Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center gets off to running start for …
WEBSep 12, 2018 · The Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center at City Springs offers an attractive alternative venue and has already booked The Atlanta Opera and Atlanta Ballet.
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 ...
ASO announces 2021-22 season, plans for return of audiences
WEBMay 6, 2021. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra plans to host audiences at Symphony Hall for the 2021–22 season and will also continue to provide virtual broadcasts of subscription concerts. The season was announced as the ASO searches for a permanent music director to replace Robert Spano, who will retire at the end of this season after 20 years ...
Rediscovering Atlanta’s Architecture: The Georgia Archives Building
WEBSep 19, 2016 · Designed by one of our own, Georgia Tech-trained architect A. Thomas Bradbury (1902-1992), the building opened in 1965 to house the state’s archives. Built for just $6.3 million, the facility was heralded as a state-of-the-art archive, allowing the public access to a treasure trove of history. Construction of an archives building came after ...
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.
Atlanta Ballet’s 2022-23 full season leaps on stage with ... - ARTS ATL
WEBJun 8, 2022 · For the first time since the March 2020 lockdown, Atlanta Ballet is presenting a full season, September 2022 through May 2023, with two world premieres, two company premieres and a flurry of works from its extensive repertory including the rollicking, full-length Don Quixote, it was announced today. After two seasons characterized by ballets ...
Review: Atlanta Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ entertains with ... - ARTS ATL
WEBDec 12, 2023 · The first time I watched Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech The Nutcracker, the one Yuri Possokhov choreographed for the company in 2018, I felt that the huge video projections and lavish busyness of the set design dwarfed and distracted from the dancers. I often found myself looking at the sets and videos and not at the dancing. I saw the full-length ballet again at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts ...
Events - ARTS ATL
WEBHerndon Plaza 142-148 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, United States. "ICONoclasts" is a powerful new installation that spotlights six influential Black Atlantans who have shaped our city's artistic and social landscape. Created by Atlanta-based artist Marryam Moma, the installation features stunning collage portraits of Ricci de Forest, Mtamanika ...