She emerges on stage, broken and boozed up. The members of the jazz trio behind her nervously exchange glances in the dark. And by the time she’s finished her opening number, “I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone,” her eyes are brimming with tears. Welcome to Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Philadelphia, 1959. Inexplicably, at just […]
By Chad Darnell for Eldredge ATL Spoiler Alert: You’re going to be angry at me by the time you’re done reading this. Pissing people off has always been my special skill. Just ask anyone who knows me. But I’m willing to roll the dice on pissing you off because we’re currently at risk of losing […]
For actors, it’s the stuff of nightmares. At the final preview performance of “I Love to Eat,” the one-man James Beard culinary comedy by James Still, currently savoring its Atlanta premiere at Theatrical Outfit, William S. Murphey became convinced he had skipped 10 pages of the script. Dressed in pajamas and a robe in Beard’s […]
Editor’s Note From December Eldredge ATL Guest Editor Topher Payne: I’ve never worked at Theatrical Outfit, and up until a few weeks ago I’d never had a proper conversation with the theatre’s Artistic Director, Tom Key. But I’ve been a fan of his work since I came to Atlanta sixteen years ago. I love how […]
Tom Key is eternally grateful to his neighbors for not calling the cops this fall as he wandered his Oak Grove neighborhood, babbling aloud about geodesic domes and Dymaxion cars. This month, in perhaps his most ambitious one-man show yet, the iconic Atlanta actor is tackling the role of inventor, architect and Green Movement […]