Actor Christian Arredondo has a busy week ahead of him. In addition to understudying the lead roles of Ponyboy Curtis and his best friend Johnny Cade in the Tony Award-winning musical “The Outsiders” at the Fox Theatre through Sunday, the Walton High School graduate is also overseeing the roasting of a large turkey for assembled […]
For its 49th season opener, Theatrical Outfit has placed a powder keg on stage with its powerful new staging of playwright Tennessee Williams’ break-through Broadway hit “The Glass Menagerie.” Seeing Terry Burrell, Stephen Ruffin, Devon Hales and Matt Mercurio inhabit these desperate, longing and loving characters as they navigate nightly through the trauma of The […]
At a slim 165 pages, “The Ones We Love,” Jonathan Sayer’s debut novel, grabs readers on page one and doesn’t let go. In an era when many viewers now scroll past the trope-filled, historically inaccurate old Hollywood westerns on Turner Classic Movies, the Austin-based writer offers an enticing invitation to re-examine the genre. The cover […]
When the Tony Award-winning “Parade” first played the Fox Theatre 25 years ago this summer, the musical by Atlanta native Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown depicting the 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan at the National Pencil Factory in downtown Atlanta felt like both a cautionary tale and a powerful history lesson. Tuesday night’s […]
For 25 years now, filmmaker Ruth Leitman has been making powerful, evocative social justice documentaries. But her latest, “No One Asked You,” a film that follows repro rights activists as they navigate the fallout of Roe being overturned, feels unparalleled in its urgency and impact. The six-year road trip film chronicles the work of “The […]
Cranking up a crackling vinyl copy of the 1984 eponymous Swimming Pool Q’s A&M Records debut can transport an entire generation back to the hip college radio station airwaves that first introduced young listeners to the Atlanta New Wave act. Songs like “The Bells Ring,” “Some New Highway,” “Pull Back My Spring” and “She’s Bringing […]
In one of Betty Brown, Ph.G.’s most harrowing 1935 continuities, the plucky blond pharmacist faces down a gang of ruthless narcotics peddlers who are forcing her at gunpoint to fill their forged prescriptions. If she refuses their demands, they’ll throw a vial of acid into the face of Dimples, the adorable abandoned baby left on […]
In the fall of 1958, Macon restaurant operator Anjette Lyles became a state-wide sensation when she went on trial, charged with the gruesome arsenic poisoning deaths of two husbands, her mother-in-law and her nine-year-old daughter. And sitting in the brass rail-accented courtroom balcony beside 27 other reporters was Atlanta Constitution reporter Celestine Sibley. By then, […]
By Susan Percy, Eldredge ATL Guest Contributor A brisk February evening in 1965 was not a bad time to be a 20-year-old University of Georgia student heading to the Georgia Coliseum for a concert, but it was truly special when the featured performer was the legendary Louis Armstrong. He would be the first Black entertainer […]
You could say author Judith Tick has been preparing to write Ella Fitzgerald’s biography her entire life. She grew up in a house where the iconic jazz singer’s LPs were front and center below the hi-fi (Tick’s mother, born in 1918, a year after Fitzgerald’s birth, would go to see Fitzgerald and her old band […]