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