No Escape in Atlanta: Freddie Ashley Challenges Audiences at Actor’s Express
The artistic director confronts his hometown with difficult, meaty work. Next: Janine Nabers’s ‘Serial Black Face.’
The artistic director confronts his hometown with difficult, meaty work. Next: Janine Nabers’s ‘Serial Black Face.’
From a daring director to a tag team of designers, from San Francisco to Atlanta, this month’s cohort of theatre people are making their mark.
Theatres across the nation are producing Steve Yockey’s upbeat ‘Blackberry Winter,’ but in his hometown it’s paired with a play in a more troubled vein.
NNPN largesse goes to playwrights and theatres to produce, and partner to produce, new work.
The city’s notorious child murders of 1979 are the backdrop of Janine Nabers’s ‘Serial Black Face,’ and Steve Yockey will get two world premieres.
Space constraints, new musicals, and Shakespeare are among this month’s round-up of news items.
Theatres are deftly negotiating the bumps and curves of an economy in flux. Theatre Facts 2011 tracks their progress.