‘Chase The Light’: Cesar Perez on His Gritty, Grace-Filled Memoir Inspired By a Near-Fatal Accident
As Joni Mitchell once wryly observed, “sometimes, change comes at you like a broadside accident.” When the iconic singer-songwriter wrote those lyrics 30 years ago, Mitchell could not have predicted […]
‘Speak Our Truth and Don’t Back Down. Ever.’ A Q&A With the Cast of ‘Lizzie’
For those of us still grappling with the United States Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the current Actor’s Express production of the hit off-Broadway musical “Lizzie” is a […]
‘Genesis Road’ is the Perfect Post-Roe Road Trip We All Need Right Now
Abandoned for years in a folder on her computer desktop, East Tennessee writer Susan O’Dell Underwood says the manuscript for what would become her new debut novel saved her life […]
‘I’m a Storyteller’: Terry Burrell on Bringing Billie Holiday to Life in ‘Lady Day’
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 […]
The Very Cool Facts Behind How Disney Stages ‘Frozen’ at the Fox Theatre
For those taking in the spectacle that is “Frozen,” currently running at the Fox Theatre through Sunday, it’s perhaps an understatement to say Disney Theatrical productions have made great technological […]
Singer-Songwriter Chip McGuire Plots His Future by Examining His Past
Like the rest of us, metro Atlanta singer-songwriter Chip McGuire is emerging from the pandemic a changed person. Over the past 26 months, his act, The Chip McGuire Band, an […]
Carver Grad Teshomech Olenja Discusses Her ‘Beautiful’ Broadway Life on the Road
As any Broadway performer will tell you, the swings — those folks who have to memorize the entire show and then jump off the sidelines at a moment’s notice to […]
‘We’re In For a Disturbing Fight’: Cynthia Tucker on ‘The Southernization of America’ and Our Democracy in the Balance
On Wednesday night at 7, Cynthia Tucker, the former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor returns to town with co-author and current University of South Alabama colleague Frye Gaillard to discuss […]
Duluth High Grad Omar Lopez-Cepero Plays Judas in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
As theatre-goers flock to the Fox Theatre this week to see the 50th anniversary staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s iconic rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar, the friendship […]
Inside a packed advance screening held at the Rialto Center for the Arts in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday night, director Clint Eastwood unveiled his latest drama, “Richard Jewell,” just a few blocks away from Centennial Olympic Park. The film, depicting the Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath in the summer of 1996, was shot on […]
Inside a packed advance screening held at the Rialto Center for the Arts in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday night, director Clint Eastwood unveiled his latest drama, “Richard Jewell,” just a few blocks away from Centennial Olympic Park. The film, depicting the Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath in the summer of 1996, was shot on […]
On Wednesday night at 7, Cynthia Tucker, the former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor returns to town with co-author and current University of South Alabama colleague Frye Gaillard to discuss their new book “The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance” (NewSouth Books, $25.95) at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead. The […]
For those taking in the spectacle that is “Frozen,” currently running at the Fox Theatre through Sunday, it’s perhaps an understatement to say Disney Theatrical productions have made great technological leaps forward since that computerized pyramid once wheezed hydraulic fluid onstage at the Alliance Theatre during the pre-Broadway run of “Aida” way back in 1998. […]
Like the rest of us, metro Atlanta singer-songwriter Chip McGuire is emerging from the pandemic a changed person. Over the past 26 months, his act, The Chip McGuire Band, an Americana-NuGrass unit once on the cusp of regional success, broke up. McGuire is also currently navigating the end of his marriage. And during lockdown, the […]
As any Broadway performer will tell you, the swings — those folks who have to memorize the entire show and then jump off the sidelines at a moment’s notice to play a role — are the real MVPs of musical theatre. Still, nothing could prepare Atlanta native Teshomech Olenja for being a swing in the current […]
Abandoned for years in a folder on her computer desktop, East Tennessee writer Susan O’Dell Underwood says the manuscript for what would become her new debut novel saved her life in the scariest days of the pandemic. “Genesis Road,” ($22.95, MadVille Publishing) is a powerful, prescient work of fiction that addresses infertility, reproductive choices, same-sex […]
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Even though it falls on Nov. 28 this year, many of us will still procrastinate and then panic about hosting or preparing dishes for Thanksgiving. There are decisions to make about selecting a frozen or organic free-range turkey or to brine or not to brine the bird. How to nimbly side step your drunk Uncle […]
With lengthy stints at both the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Atlanta magazine, Richard L. Eldredge has been covering Atlanta’s arts, entertainment, political, dining and charitable fundraising scenes since 1990. In 2015, he launched Eldredge ATL, a daily digital magazine dedicated to the city’s ever-evolving arts, entertainment, cuisine and cultural landscapes. Since 2011, he has worked as senior editor at VOX Teen Communications, supporting Atlanta’s next generation of journalists. In recognition of this work, Eldredge received the Atlanta Press Club Impact Award in 2015.
When actors Sun Mee Chomet and Joseph Pendergrast first walked on stage to debut “Bina’s Six Apples” at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis in January, the world was still fighting spiking COVID infections. By the time the 1950 Korea War-set world premiere play opened at the Alliance Theatre on March 16, the real-time invasion […]
While visiting his sister in Malaysia last year during the country’s strict pandemic lockdown, Grammy-winning engineer Phil Tan, who has earned golden gramophones for his work with Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Ludacris, turned to a new hobby — screenwriting. The resulting script, later collaborated on with writer-producer Michael Lucker, is the powerful new short film […]
Legendary Atlanta drag performer Charlie Brown can sum up his feelings about his much-anticipated March 4 return to the stage in three words: “I’m antsy, I’m excited and I’m nervous.” Hold up, the city’s most famous female impersonator who’s been gracing Atlanta stages for 44 years, the star of Backstreet’s iconic Charlie Brown’s Cabaret and […]
Darlene Love, her fellow “Wall of Sound” singing sister, perhaps expressed it best Wednesday night upon learning of Ronnie Spector’s death: “I’m in total shock! Did not see this one coming. Please give me time to process my thoughts to give Ronnie the proper tribute she deserves.” Late Wednesday afternoon, breaking news alerts from ABC […]
Paul Hemphill didn’t live to witness our current pandemic-propelled “Great Resignation.” And yet, nearly 50 years ago in the pages of Southern Voices magazine, he might have penned the perfect manifesto for the movement. In his iconic essay “Quitting The Paper,” Hemphill recounts the rain splattered evening when, sustained by a series of Beefeater martinis, […]
Last week, after a five-hour rehearsal of his one-man show “You Better Call Your Mother” with director Courtenay Collins, Mitchell Anderson says the memorized words of the two-act play finally became real for him. “The most important thing is to be in the moment and that’s how I try to live my life,” says Anderson. […]
For the first time in the 26-year history of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, the nonprofit’s founder Jane Fonda was unable to fly in for the annual fundraiser. But the activist and actress had a very good reason — she and longtime pal Lily Tomlin were in the middle of shooting the […]
A confession: It took a global pandemic and a half century for me to finally discover “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” It’s even more shameful to admit this as a reporter who’s worked in the news business for over three decades. The truth is, my first James L. Brooks-created news woman was Holly Hunter’s Jane […]
Director T.J. Parsell’s emotional and eye-opening new documentary “Invisible” finally lifts the veil on a group of gay women songwriters responsible for some of Nashville’s biggest hits over the last 50 years. Successful songwriters who, due to their sexual orientation in the male dominated country music industry, had to remain invisible in order to make […]
While the rest of us tried to figure out what to do with sourdough starter last year in the throes of a global pandemic, Eddie Muller was busy revising and expanding the definitive tome on film noir. In stores now, the new 2021 edition of Muller’s classic film book “Dark City: The Lost World of […]
‘Chase The Light’: Cesar Perez on His Gritty, Grace-Filled Memoir Inspired By a Near-Fatal Accident