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Writer Neil Gaiman (center) makes music with FourPlay (L-R: Peter Hollo, Shenton Gregory aka Shenzo Gregorio, Lara Goodridge and Tim Hollo)

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  • Music News

Writer Neil Gaiman debuts his first music album with an Australian string quartet

British writer and comic book author Neil Gaiman launches first studio music album with Australia's FourPlay String Quartet.

April 27, 2023
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  • Olivia Hampton
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Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries dies at age 89

The Tony Award-winning comedian was internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending snob whose evolving character delighted audiences over seven decades.

April 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Chita Rivera as Anita in the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story.

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  • Arts & Life

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir

In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the skirt!"

April 21, 2023
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  • Susan Stamberg
Shuler Awards performance.

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  • Arts & Culture News

ArtsBridge Foundation honors high school theater at 15th Shuler Awards

Thursday on GPB-TV, the annual ArtsBridge Foundation’s Shuler Awards, for high school theater, will be livestreamed. This recognizes and celebrates high school theater programs across Georgia for their 2022-23 school year productions.

April 19, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton
John Riddle as Raoul (left), Ben Crawford as The Phantom and Emilie Kouatchou as Christine at Broadway's 34th anniversary performance of <em>The Phantom of the Opera. </em>The last performance of the long-running hit musical will be on Sunday, April 16.

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  • Theater

'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances

On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.

April 15, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban in the 2023 Broadway production of<em> Sweeney Todd.</em>

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  • Theater

As 'Sweeney Todd' returns to Broadway, 4 Sweeneys dish about the difficult role

Josh Groban, Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis and Len Cariou all agree: It's exhausting playing a murderous sociopath, while dealing with stage blood, a mechanical barber chair and singing complex music.

March 29, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
Los Angeles artist Kristina Wong in <a href="https://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/kirk-douglas-theatre/2022-23/kristina-wong-sweatshop-overlord/"><em>Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord</em></a>, a co-production with East West Players.

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  • Theater

From elected official to 'Sweatshop Overlord,' this performer takes on unlikely roles

Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based satirical artist with a history of taking on surprising leadership positions in real life and on stage. Her latest solo show is Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord.

March 12, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
After closing its doors November 2022, Tara theatre is under new ownership and on track to reopen.

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  • Arts & Life

The show goes on: Historic Tara theater set to reopen this spring

After closing its doors last November, Atlanta’s historic Tara theater is coming back. Now, the arthouse cinema is scheduled to reopen this spring.  

February 23, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
The Tyler Perry Exhibit

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  • Arts & Life

There's a Tyler Perry experience you can only have in Macon

"It's Black History Month. It's The Harriet Tubman Museum, It makes sense." The entertainment mogul is honored with an exhibit in Macon.

February 21, 2023
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  • Sonia Murray
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in a rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play.

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  • Theater

A rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play is here — and it's messy but powerful

Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.

February 13, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
A repurposed school bus from Control Group Productions' climate change-focused immersive theater experience, <em>The End.</em>

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  • Theater

Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice

With ticket sales way down and government relief mostly at an end, business as usual is not an option for nonprofit performing arts groups.

February 06, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Matt Butler performing at the Central Utah Correctional Facility.

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  • Music

Matt Butler has played concerts in more than 50 prisons and jails

"Reckless Son" is a one-man show by singer/songwriter Matt Butler inspired by the convicts he's met while touring American prisons and jails.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Phil Harrell and
  • Leila Fadel
Playwright Paula Vogel speaks onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards.

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  • Arts & Life

A play about censorship is censored — and free speech groups are fighting back

PEN America and two other free speech groups are calling for school officials in Florida to reinstate a high school production of Paula Vogel's Indecent, a play that is itself about censorship.

January 11, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
<em>Trade, </em>created by Emma O'Halloran and Mark O'Halloran, will be featured at the PROTOTYPE festival this year.

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  • Performing Arts

Who says opera needs a grand stage? This festival is all about intimate productions

The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison.

January 08, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
A scene from the New York production of <em>STOMP</em> featuring Desmond Howard and Emmanuel "Manny" Scott at the Orpheum Theatre.

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  • Arts & Life

STOMP closes after 29-year New York run

The internationally-renowned show exploring the percussive possibilities of the human body and everyday objects ends Jan. 8.

January 07, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
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