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 […]
A Note Of Thanks From Rich: At 6 a.m., August 24, 2015, when Eldredge ATL went live, unlike Ray Kinsella, the guy in “Field of Dreams” who erects a ball park in his cornfield after a mysterious spirit tells him, “If you build it, they will come,” I had no idea if anyone would read […]
For most actors, bad reviews are an acute occupational hazard. Still, “Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Troy Davis Project” actor Stephen Ruffin was momentarily stunned this week in the fiery closing moments of his act with co-star Terry Henry when a Spelman student sitting inches away in the front row disgustedly told him, “Just get off […]
Atlanta writer Pearl Cleage’s first-born grandchild Michael threw down the gauntlet to granny when he was just 11. He informed her that he was through with kiddie fare theatre, especially the “Charlotte’s Web” variety. Realizing his need to be challenged and knowing he wasn’t yet old enough to take in the adult themes of her […]