Boogie down with "Memphis", get your laugh on with Lenny Marcus and explore family dynamics with "Other Desert Cities."
PERFORMING ARTS
"The Tortoise, the Hare, & Other Aesop's Fables." Through Sept. 20. $16.50 Center for Puppetry Arts, 1404 Spring St. N.W., Atlanta. www.puppet.org.
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Sept. 2-20. Tickets start at $20-$55. Alliance Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. www.alliancetheatre.org. Read about Alliance's staging of "Cukoo's Nest" here.
"Memphis." Sept. 10-20. $20-$50. Theatrical Outfit at the Rialto Center for the Arts, 80 Forsyth St. N.W., Atlanta. 678-528-1500, www.theatricaloutfit.org.
"Calendar Girls." Sept. 10-Oct. 4. $30-$40. Georgia Ensemble Theatre at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St., Roswell. 770-641-1260, get.org.
"Celles D'en Haut (Women on Top)." Performances in French and English. Sept. 10-20. $15-$22.50. Théâtre du Rêve and 7 Stages Theatre, 1105 Euclid Ave. N.E., Atlanta. www.7stages.org.
"Other Desert Cities." Sept. 11-26. $17-$25. Out of Box Theatre at Artisan Resource Center, 585 Cobb Parkway S., Suite A-1, Marietta. www.outofboxtheatre.com.
Lenny Marcus. Comedian. 8:30 p.m. Sept. 12. $25. Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. www.atlantajcc.org.
"Cymbeline." Sept. 12-27. $15-$39. Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the New American Shakespeare Tavern, 499 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. www.shakespearetavern.com.
"Stupid (expletive) Bird." Sept. 12-Oct. 11. $26-$43. Actor's Express at the King Plow Arts Center, 887 W. Marietta St., Suite J-107, Atlanta. www.actors-express.com.
"Apostle." Premiere of a new one-man show by Brad Sherrill. 7 p.m. Sept. 13. Free; offering taken. Chamblee First United Methodist Church, 4147 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Chamblee. www.chambleeumc.org.
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company. 8 p.m. Sept. 13. $22.50-$47.50. Ferst Center for the Arts, 349 Ferst Drive N.W., Atlanta. arts.gatech.edu.
"Search Engine." Following an epic, six-week run in New York City's Central Park, Lauri Stallings' performance group Glo presents a new work at the Contemporary. Via the body in motion, Stallings aims to create an "aesthetic rhythm, a hushed reverberation, for a stir of existence" while fostering exchange between artists, viewers and artwork. Sept. 14-27. Free. Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. www.thecontemporary.org.
