Theater

A new integrative theater experience, “HEREafter,” is popping up in Atlanta for a limited time only. With talent from NYC’s smash success, “Sleep No More,” comes an evening at the theater unlike any other.

Send your head rolling into fall with the immersive theater performance of “The Sleepy Hollow Experience,” once again held at The Horseman’s Meadow in Serenbe.

This Halloween season is going green as the famous Broadway musical sensation “Wicked” flies back in to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 23.

Calling ATL parents: Your children’s Christmas dreams are coming true! Every kid’s favorite holiday house guest, Elf on the Shelf, will come to life this November with two incredible musical performances. Inspired by the beloved figure, “The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Musical” will take attendees on a magical, song-filled journey to the North Pole.

I studied ballet for more than 10 years with a local dance company while growing up. Each spring, we performed a different production, and my favorite was “Beauty and the Beast.” The music, the costumes, the choreography – there are so many reasons to love this ballet.

For the past couple of years “Hamilton” and “Waitress” were on my list of must-see plays. And thanks to the fabulous Fox Theatre’s Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta series, I got to check both off.

Based on the true story that spawned a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie, Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking” at the Atlanta Opera takes the audience through Sister Helen Prejean’s time as spiritual advisor to convicted murderer Joseph de Rocher.

Musical theater fans, get ready for the wildly popular Broadway show, “Waitress,” to arrive at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre for a five-night-only engagement, Feb. 5-10.

Theatergoers will feel like they’ve walked into the cheery atmosphere of a Waffle House (the show’s sponsor) when they attend “Waffle Palace Christmas,” the new play at the Horizon Theatre running through Dec. 30. The cast includes some of the same favorites from “Waffle Palace,” based on real-life events at the iconic diner.

Closing out the 2018 season, “The Snow Queen” returns to light up the wintry woods of Serenbe Playhouse every Wednesday through Sunday from Nov. 28–Jan. 6.

Atlanta’s own Jenny Levison steps out of the kitchen and back onto the stage for a three-week run of “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti,” based on Giulia Melucci’s 2009 memoir of the same title.

What happens when two former WW II soldiers who have been performing as jazz musicians in Paris for 10 years decide to bring their mixed-race act back to Georgia? That’s the question addressed in the play “Nick’s Flamingo Grill,” making its debut on the Hertz Stage of the Alliance Theatre Sept. 29 to Oct. 28.

“The Two Kids That Blow Stuff Up” is not the exact name of the new play showing at the Aurora Theatre from September 7–30. Substitute the word stuff with another -s word and you get the idea.

Fairies, lovers, actors and royals will frolic under the stars in an outdoor Elizabethan playhouse when Shakespeare Kennesaw presents its inaugural show, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Desperate to make their name in the 1590s, when one playwright was hogging all the attention (we’re looking at you, William Shakespeare), brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom decide they will find success by writing the world’s first musical, a genre the Bard had not attempted.

The book by Mary Rodgers was published in 1972, and this tale of an overworked mother and her teenage daughter who switch bodies is still entertaining audiences. A musical adaptation of “Freaky Friday” is showing at the Horizon Theatre through April 22.

A performance celebrating African culture, music and the beauty of its people is coming to Atlanta for one weekend only, March 16-18.

I don’t like to read book jackets, watch movie trailers or skim synopses of plays. They give too much away.

Some of Broadway’s hottest award-winning shows are coming to Atlanta for the 2018-19 Broadway in Atlanta season. I’m most excited to see “Waitress,” that testament to the power of pie, and “Dear Evan Hansen,” which won a Tony in 2017 for Best Musical.

For 20 years, theatergoers have felt the love for “The Lion King,” one of the most popular musicals in the world and winner of six Tony awards. It made its Broadway debut in November 2017 and is still playing.

See the drama, humor and persistence behind one betrayed woman’s determination to find true love during Aurora Theatre’s comedy performance “The 12 Dates of Christmas.”

“Twelve little girls in two straight lines” dance and sing their way through Horizon Theatre’s magical 10th anniversary performance of “Madeline’s Christmas.”

The strength of hope, love and community are revealed at Christmas in True Colors Theatre Company’s performance “The First Noel.”