Theatre Shows for Week of 8–26

This Weeks Atlanta The­atre Per­for­mances and Beyond:

9 to 5 The Remix

08/26/2009 to 08/26/2009
Writ­ten by Gre­gory Alexan­der
Do you hate your boss? Well these ladies did but did that hate him enough to kill him. Come find out!
Com­pany: TryCros Plays and Pro­duc­tions
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $0.00
Box Office: 404–207-3632

Funny Fri­days

08/28/2009 to 06/25/2010
Com­edy Club on the Square
Com­pany: Aurora The­atre
Price: $0.00
Box Office: 6872266222
Free Park­ing Available

Lawrenceville Ghost Tours

06/19/2009 to 08/29/2009
Lawrenceville, GA a quiet south­ern town born almost 200 years ago is home to some of the most bizarre and spooky tales ever told. Like other south­ern towns, Lawrenceville has a his­tory rich in Native Amer­i­can cul­ture, civil war sto­ries and var­i­ous quirky char­ac­ters that have trod the pave­ment of it’s streets. But unlike most other south­ern towns, there’s a lot more para-normal than nor­mal.
Take a scary stroll through haunted Lawrenceville and hear about:
Fly­ing Corpses
The heiress who was kid­napped and buried alive
What really hap­pened at the old jail.
Join us (if you dare) for a 90-minute walk­ing tour of some of Lawrenceville GA’s most
inter­est­ing places and the sto­ries behind it’s most bizarre events, haunt­ingly told with
the charm and per­son­al­ity of a real south­ern storytellers

Meet at Aurora Theatre

Dis­count tick­ets for this show are avail­able thru AtlanTIX online and at the booths. Click on Dis­count Tick­ets on the blue bar above to see list of tick­ets avail­able online today.
Com­pany: Aurora The­atre
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $12.72
Box Office: 678–226-6222
Free Park­ing Available

Lend Me a Tenor

07/31/2009 to 08/29/2009
World famous tenor, Tito Morelli, is to per­form OTHELLO for the Cleve­land Grand Opera Com­pany. Saun­ders, the gen­eral man­ager, hopes this will put Cleve­land on the oper­atic map, Morelli is late, and when he arrives it is too late to rehearse with the com­pany. Through a hilar­i­ous set of mishaps, Il Stu­pendo is given a dou­ble dose of tran­quil­iz­ers which mix with the booze he has con­sumed, and he passes out. His pulse is so low Saun­ders and his assis­tant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspir­ing singer and Saun­ders per­suades him to get into Morelli’s Oth­ello cos­tume and try to fool the audi­ence into think­ing he is Tito. Max suc­ceeds admirably, but Tito comes in and gets into his other cos­tume. Now TWO Oth­el­los are run­ning around in cos­tume and two women are run­ning round in lin­gerie, each think­ing she is with Il Stu­pendo, while the Bell­hop con­tin­ues to try to meet Il Stupendo.

Com­pany: The Rose­wa­ter The­atre
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $15.00 — $18.00
Box Office: 770–640-5500
Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Avail­able
Free Park­ing Available

Cin­derella, A Dream Come True

08/29/2009 to 09/12/2009
A clas­sic re-telling of the rags-to-riches fairy­tale of a young girl forced to live with her
cruel step­mother and her equally cruel step­sis­ters. Three feisty mice quickly become
friends with Cin­derella and plot ways to “get ‘em, bite ‘em, and beat ‘em up”!
Mean­while King Henri and Queen Isabella plan a ball to cap­ture a daughter-in-law! Rest
assured they will get no help from their son, but there’s noth­ing to fear with Jacque­line
on their side. Throw in a for­get­ful Fairy God­mother, a tired dog, and the audience’s
par­tic­i­pa­tion for an after­noon of clas­sic fairy­tale fun!

Com­pany: The Black­well Play­house
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $0.00
Box Office: 678–213-3311
Free Park­ing Available

Aurora Children’s Playhouse

08/22/2009 to 12/05/2009
8/22/2009 — Shakespeare’s Fun­house
Barry Stew­art Mann

8/29/2009 — Dr. Dinosaur
That Pup­pet Guy

10/17/2009 — Jack and the Beanstalk
All Hands Productions

10/24/2009 — Drum­ming Up The Sto­ries
Dave Holland

10/31/2009 — Hal­loween Magic Show
Arthur Atsma

12/5/2009 — Rudolph the Robot Rein­deer
*New Show / World Pre­miere* That Pup­pet Guy

12/12/2009 — Santa’s Miss­ing Mail- 10 & 11 AM
All Hands Productions

12/19/2009 - Twas the Night Before Christ­mas
Pic­cadilly Puppets

Com­pany: Aurora The­atre
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $7.42
Box Office: 678–226-6222
Free Park­ing Available

The Com­plete Works of William Shake­speare (Abridged)

This is going to be epic! …at the Black­well Play­house in Mari­etta GA.

08/14/2009 to 08/29/2009
37 plays. 97 min­utes. 3 Actors.

Com­pany: North Ful­ton Drama Club
Price: $16.00 — $18.00
Box Office: 678–213-3311
Free Park­ing Available

Don’t Men­tion My Name

08/21/2009 to 09/20/2009
An award-winning play­wright asks what you would do if you suf­fered tem­po­rary amne­sia and stum­bled into a bed and break­fast off sea­son only to find you were expected for the week end. The plot becomes more and more hilar­i­ous until all ques­tions are answered, includ­ing who the hero is and what the crime is with a sur­pris­ing twist end­ing. This com­bi­na­tion of intrigu­ing laugh­ter, romance and mys­tery pro­vides a delight­ful evening.
Com­pany: Kudzu Play­house
Price: $12.00 — $18.00
Box Office: 770–594-1020
Free Park­ing Available

The Ran­som of Red Chief

08/22/2009 to 09/20/2009
This is a hilar­i­ous tale of the kid­napped boy, Red, know as Red Chief, who is such a holy ter­ror that the ques­tion soon becomes: Will Red’s uncle pay to get him back or will the kid­nap­pers have to pay to get rid of him. “It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama–Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kid­nap­ping idea struck us. It was, as Bill after­ward expressed it, ‘dur­ing a moment of tem­po­rary men­tal appari­tion’; but we didn’t find that out till later.”
Com­pany: Kudzu Play­house
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $8.00
Box Office: 770–594-1020
Free Park­ing Available

The Tri­als And Tribu­la­tions of a Trailer Trash House­wife by Del Shores

08/21/2009 to 09/12/2009
The Process The­atre and Onstage Atlanta present “The Tri­als And Tribu­la­tions of a Trailer Trash House­wife”. Willi is your typ­i­cal trailor trash house­wife. Her abu­sive hus­band won’t let her get a job, one of her chil­dren is dead, and the other has been thrown out of the house by her hus­band because he’s gay. Just a another nor­mal fam­ily in the trailer park.
Com­pany: The Process The­atre Co.
Suit­abil­ity: Mature Con­tent
Price: $18.00 — $22.00
Box Office: 404/897‑1802
Free Park­ing Available

Cot­ton Patch Gospel

08/12/2009 to 08/30/2009
Writ­ten by Tom Key and Rus­sell Treyz with music and lyrics by Harry Chapin.

This gem of musi­cal the­ater adapts Clarence Jordan’s “Cot­ton Patch” ver­sions of the gospels of Matthew and John for the stage, trans­plant­ing the story of Jesus into mid-20th cen­tury Amer­i­can South and con­sid­er­ing what might have hap­pened had Jesus been born in Geor­gia. Directed by Tom Key; it is co-produced with Third Coast Pro­duc­tions and Geor­gia Ensem­ble The­atre. Rec­om­mended for all ages.
Com­pany: The­atri­cal Out­fit
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $15.00 — $35.00
Box Office: 678–528-1500
Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Avail­able
Pay Park­ing Available

MacHomer

08/26/2009 to 08/30/2009
This one-man multi-media vocal spec­tac­u­lar fea­tures impres­sions of over 50 voices from TV’s The Simp­sons in a hilar­i­ous per­for­mance of Shakespeare’s Mac­beth! With a script that remains 85% Shake­speare, MacHomer will leave you “exhausted with laugh­ter” (Pitts­burgh Post-Gazette). One week only!

cre­ated and per­formed by Rick Miller
Com­pany: Geor­gia Shake­speare
Suit­abil­ity: Mature Con­tent
Price: $15.00 — $45.00
Box Office: 404–264-0020
Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Avail­able
Free Park­ing Available

The Com­plete Works of William Shake­speare (abridged)

07/24/2009 to 09/06/2009
An irrev­er­ent, hilar­i­ous, high-speed romp through all 37 of the Bard’s plays (and 154 son­nets) in two hours! Oth­ello goes Hip-Hop, Titus Andron­i­cus a cook­ing show, and all the His­to­ries are per­formed as a foot­ball game. All of this per­formed by THREE ACTORS.

Com­pany: The New Amer­i­can Shake­speare Tav­ern
Price: $12–32.00
Box Office: 404–874-5299
Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Avail­able
Pay Park­ing Available

Kiss Me, Kate

08/04/2009 to 09/06/2009
Tak­ing its inspi­ra­tion from Shake­speare, Kiss Me, Kate recounts the back­stage and onstage antics of two feud­ing roman­tic cou­ples dur­ing a tour­ing pro­duc­tion of The Tam­ing of the Shrew. This Tony Award win­ning revival sparkles with one Cole Porter hit after another — includ­ing: Another Op’nin’, Another Show, Wun­der­bar, From This Moment On, and Too Darn Hot.
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Bella & Samuel Spewack

Dis­count tick­ets for this show will soon be avail­able thru AtlanTIX online and at the booths.
Com­pany: Aurora The­atre
Price: $21.20 — $31.80
Box Office: 678–226-6222
Free Park­ing Available

Adven­tures of Lit­tle Noodle

08/14/2009 to 09/13/2009
Lit­tle Noo­dle and her par­ents live in a pasta box on the top shelf of the gro­cery store. Sud­denly, their home is knocked over and Lit­tle Noo­dle is swept far away! Lost and hun­gry, she sets off to find her way home. Along the way, she meets many strange, won­der­ful and some­times scary char­ac­ters, but every­one has opin­ions on what to eat and how to live. Can you help Lit­tle Noo­dle make healthy choices and find her way home?

Dis­count tick­ets for this show are avail­able thru AtlanTIX online and at the booths. Click on Dis­count Tick­ets on the blue bar above to see list of tick­ets avail­able online today.
Com­pany: Cen­ter for Pup­petry Arts
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $16.00
Box Office: 404.873.3391
Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Avail­able
Free Park­ing Available

The Med­i­cine Showdown

08/21/2009 to 08/30/2009
After daz­zling Atlanta audi­ences with The Mys­tery of Chung Ling Soo and Lil­iom, The New York-based Fly­ing Car­pet The­atre returns to Atlanta. Set in small-town Geor­gia dur­ing the 1918 global influenza pan­demic, this orig­i­nal work pits a cru­sad­ing doc­tor against an entourage of snake oil sales­men. Pub­lic health seems at odds with the town‘s eco­nomic inter­ests as civic lead­ers debate shut­ting down all pub­lic gatherings—including the pop­u­lar and lucra­tive local med­i­cine show. Inter­wo­ven with the real­is­tic play are scenes from a period med­i­cine show, com­plete with tap dance, old time melo­drama, coun­try music, and vaude­ville style com­edy.
Com­pany: 14th Street Play­house
Suit­abil­ity: Fam­ily Friendly
Price: $15.00
Box Office: 4047335000
Pub­lic Trans­porta­tion Avail­able
Pay Park­ing Available