The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Andrew Houchins
“All the world’s a stage . . .” We invite you to join us on another trip into Shakespeare's enchanted woods. . . where Rosalind disguises herself as a man as Orlando litters the woods with love notes praising her beauty and virtue. Will the two lovers be united? Will Orlando survive the wrestling match? Will you have a great time? Here's a hint: this Winter, there's no better place to warm up than in Shakespeare's woods at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse.
7 Stages
Theroun Patterson (RED SUMMER)
Home Brew is 7 Stages’ developmental reading and presentation series for local artists. Artists spend a week residency developing their works for a one night presentation.
Actor's Express
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
A wronged barber escapes from prison, returning to his native London to exact revenge on the corrupt judge who unjustly imprisoned him and stole his wife and child. When he joins forces with the lonely piemaker Mrs. Lovett, he sets into motion a tale of lust, murder, revenge and some really twisted meat pie recipes. Sondheim’s electrifying masterpiece explodes off the AE stage with raw power and some of the best singing you’ll hear in Atlanta all year.
Theatrical Outfit - The Balzer Theater at Herren's
By Lane Carlock and Brian Kurlander
An American marine in Afghanistan connects with his son across the world by crafting a handmade book. As the unfinished Book of Moxie journeys on to a chic Parisian apartment, the slums of India, and, finally, an inner-city American school, all who touch it are sparked to add their personal stories, contributing to its enchanting and mystical force. Thisglobetrotting adventure tale acts as a reminder of the power of storytelling, the potency of words and the courage we all must summon to thrive and connect in modern times.
7 Stages
Sean Dorsey Dance
From the San Francisco dance company that brought THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE to Atlanta,THE MISSING GENERATION is a new dance-theater work that explores the contemporary impact of the loss of part of an entire generation of gay and transgender people to AIDS in the 1980’s and 90’s. Created over two years through oral history interviews with survivors in six cities across the USA including Atlanta.
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Jeff Watkins
We invite you to join us for our 16th anniversary of performing this play about young lovers, feuding families and one Friar with good intentions.
7 Stages
Tara Ochs & Heidi S. Howard (White Woman in Progress)
Home Brew is 7 Stages’ developmental reading and presentation series for local artists. Artists spend a week residency developing their works for a one night presentation.
Kennesaw State University
Michael Haverty, Ofir Nahari, Margaret Baldwin, Ismail Ibn Connor (The Followers)
Home Brew is 7 Stages’ developmental reading and presentation series for local artists. Artists spend a week residency developing their works for a one night presentation.
7 Stages
Written by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Heidi S. Howard
A new play by Atlanta native Lauren Gunderson, THE REVOLUTIONISTS takes us to 1793 Paris during the Reign of Terror. Four powerful Frenchwomen tackle gender inequality, racial tension, and rising violent radicalism. But it’s a comedy. Promise.
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Laura Cole
Shakespeare’s second-famous “battle of the sexes” play. Will Benedick, the ever-confirmed bachelor, admit his love for the equally witty and equally independent Beatrice? Will the young lovers Claudio and Hero survive the devious meddling of others? What do you want to bet there will be two weddings in the end?
Actor's Express
By Janine Nabers
Atlanta, 1979. The city is gripped by the 23 lives lost in the Atlanta Child Murders. Single mother Vivian copes with the disappearance of her young son while working tirelessly to give a fresh start to her troubled teenage daughter. When a handsome stranger enters her life with promises of new love, she soon learns that nothing is as it seems. This award-winning play by one of America’s most promising young playwrights pulses to life with extraordinary grace and raw emotional power.
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Troy Willis
One Play, Two Kinsmen, Three Dimensions, No Fourth Wall.
Two best friends, skilled fighters both, fall in love with the same girl while they are stuck in prison. Their friendship takes a beating as they try over and over to prove who is most worthy to have her. Part As You Like It, part A Midsummer Night’s Dream and based on Chaucer's "A Knight's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales, The Two Noble Kinsmen leaves the outcome hanging until literally the bitter end.
Theatrical Outfit - The Balzer Theater at Herren's
Book by Craig Lucas
Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel
Based on the Novella by Elizabeth Spencer
In 1953, Margaret Johnson of Winston-Salemis on holiday in Italy when dashing Fabrizzio falls fast for her daughter, Clara. As the courtship races, Margaret must reveal a family secret or summon the courage to consent to marriage. Themes of sacrifice, destiny and the effervescence of first love ripple through this lush period musical. Adapted from the novella by Elizabeth Spencer with a score by Adam Guettel (grandson of composer Richard Rogers), this winner of six Tony Awards transports audiences to sunshine-filled Tuscany and into the hearts of some of musical theatre’s most endearing characters.
7 Stages
Written and directed by Michael Haverty and Erwin Maas
The life story, from birth to age 18, of a boy on the autistic spectrum and his obsession with, and escape into, the world of cinema, told through puppetry and live-feed video. Capturing his unique perception within the controlled frame of a camera, he is able to share films which bridge the common social/emotional divide which the spectrum engenders.
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Jaclyn Hofmann
“We don’t do politics,” Shakespeare says “We do histories. True histories of the past.”
England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and blow up Parliament with 36 barrels of devilish gunpowder!
Shagspeare (after a contemporary spelling of the Bard's name) is commissioned by Robert Cecil, the prime minister, to write the "true historie" of the plot. And it must have witches! The King wants witches! But as Shag and the acting company of the Globe, under the direction of the great Richard Burbage, investigate the plot, they discover that the King's version of the story might, in fact, be a cover-up. Shag and his actors are confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma. Speak truth to power—and perhaps lose their heads? Or take the money and lie? Is there a third option—equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances, Equivocation gallops from the great Globe to the Tower of London to the halls of Parliament to the heart of Judith, Shag's younger daughter, who finds herself unexpectedly at the very heart of the political, dramatic and—ultimately—human mystery.
Equivocation is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
7 Stages
The Pacha Mamas (A Touch of Goddesspell)
Home Brew is 7 Stages’ developmental reading and presentation series for local artists. Artists spend a week residency developing their works for a one night presentation.
7 Stages
Heidi S Howard, Theresa Davis, Jed Drummond, & Dorothy Bell (Fahrenheit 451)
Home Brew is 7 Stages’ developmental reading and presentation series for local artists. Artists spend a week residency developing their works for a one night presentation.
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Drew Reeves
Join us for one of Shakespeare's earliest and funniest plays. Watch and laugh as close friends Valentine and Proteus both pursue the Duke of Milan's beautiful daughter, Sylvia. See how Crab, "the sourest-natured dog that lives", provides one of the first examples of the animal stealing the show. Don’t miss this rarely produced comedy.
Actor's Express
By Joshua Harmon
Jordan Berman is looking for Mr. Right. As each of his close-knit girlfriends begin coupling off, he navigates the uneasy transition from gay best friend to bridesman. Through it all, he wades through a string of workplace crushes, awkward first dates and romantic misadventures of his own, wondering if he’ll ever find true love. AE favorite Joshua Harmon goes from Bad Jews to bad dates in this bittersweet comedy about searching for love and moving on.
The New American Shakespeare Tavern
Directed by Laura Cole
A lost fortune, a lover's choice and one of the most powerful expressions of "the quality of mercy" in literature: meet Portia, Bassanio and Shylock, the Jewish moneylender and one of Shakespeare’s most controversial characters of all time. A suspenseful comedy with a tragic core that has intrigued audiences for centuries. Does the expression of mercy come through in the characters’ actions?
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