http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts All about the arts in metro Atlanta en-us ldonosky@ajc.com 2008-11-21T15:27:07-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/21/8998603.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts The blog is going away but the reviews are not. You can find them here in the online print edition.... 8998603@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Alert 2008-11-21T15:27:07-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/16/atlanta_operas_la_cenerentola_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts There’s a style of regional-opera management, more tactical than strategic, where you blow the budget on one famous diva to help sell a production and, by necessity, skimp elsewhere. The Atlanta Opera’s production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” which opened Saturday... 8860003@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Classical Music 2008-11-16T13:51:39-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/14/aso_dame_evelyn_and_a_new_perc.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts Dame Evelyn Glennie, the superstar of her field, is playing with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony this weekend. She’s the living embodiment of the fact that rhythm has pushed aside its rivals, melody and harmony, to become the dominant... 8819503@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Classical Music 2008-11-14T02:22:45-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/11/doctor_atomic_documentary_toni.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts  A look at ‘Atomic’ opera On Nov. 11 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will offer a free screening of “Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic,” a documentary about the opera “Doctor Atomic.” The behind-the-scenes feature will be shown at... 8745003@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Classical Music 2008-11-11T12:04:50-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/10/2008_suzi_bass_awards_handed_o.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts The Alliance Theatre dominated the Suzi Bass Awards on Monday night — picking up 13 of the 20 artistic prizes. Alliance artistic director Susan V. Booth’s haunting production of “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” —... 8732103@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-11-10T23:16:40-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/10/high_school_musical_2_the_fox.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts The Disney entertainment empire mastered the art of summer vacation decades ago. To visit a Disney theme park is to enter a fantasy world where your favorite cartoon characters spring to life in amazing Technicolor. No wonder, then, that summer... 8716503@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-11-10T12:40:14-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/10/ted_turners_autobiography_hits.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts Ted Turner has finally written his memoirs. “Call Me Ted” is in bookstores today, but I got to read an advance copy so I could review it for the paper. As a book, it’s a little disappointing. Turner is... 8657803@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Books 2008-11-10T07:41:24-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/07/goodnight_moon_alliance_theatr.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts The two pre-schoolers in my house adore the picture book “Goodnight Moon.” Clement Hurd’s cozy, crayon-colored illustrations, with a hint of faux-primitivism in the style, and Margaret Wise Brown’s gentle, sing-songy words resonate with perceptive, if still forming, imaginations. Parents... 8665903@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-11-07T15:03:43-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/07/a_lesson_before_dying_theatric.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts In Ernest J. Gaines’ 1993 novel, “A Lesson Before Dying,” a young black man named Jefferson is falsely accused of killing a white merchant. When his defense attorney calls him a “hog,” Jefferson is rendered sub-human, and condemned to a... 8661803@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-11-07T12:11:24-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/06/swimming_upstream_by_true_colo.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts On Tuesday, America saw political theater on a grand and epic scale. On Wednesday night, Atlanta witnessed the birth of a major new piece of theatrical storytelling. “Swimming Upstream” — written by a group of New Orleans women insistent on... 8629603@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-11-06T11:13:13-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/05/obama_has_an_arts_policy.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts This really is history in the making. Instead of disdaining the arts as too elitist, or merely keeping the subject at arm’s length, the President-elect’s website actually has an arts position paper. A few choice lines: “The arts embody the... 8602903@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Classical Music 2008-11-05T12:22:54-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/03/obama_mccain_and_the_books_the.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts According to various reports, John McCain’s favorite books include “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Barack Obama has mentioned “Song of Solomon” and “Moby-Dick.” No one ever mentions “Naked Came the... 8515803@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Books 2008-11-03T13:27:24-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/11/02/stockhausens_heavens_gate_and.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts Ensemble Sirius, the piano-percussion duo of Michael Fowler and Stuart Gerber, specializes in the music of the late German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. They gave a sensationally good concert Saturday night at Emory’s Performing Arts Studio, a black-box space that was... 8493103@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Classical Music 2008-11-02T10:49:09-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/10/31/the_new_century_actors_express.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts Mr. Charles (currently of Palm Beach) is so outrageously gay that he was asked to leave New York. Looking like the love child of Quentin Crisp and Divine, he wouldn’t be caught dead without several applications of bronzer, his peach-colored... 8459303@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-10-31T14:20:02-04:00 http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/entries/2008/10/29/dracula_aurora_theatre.html?cxntfid=blogs_atlarts Lucy is lying in a state of repose. There are strange marks on her neck, and her nocturnal behavior has been a little odd. Sleepwalking. Bad dreams, perhaps. But she has also seemed weirdly drawn to something outside the towering... 8381803@http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/atlarts/ Theater 2008-10-29T10:46:53-04:00