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New Website! ..& Thank-you to our Supporters!
No CommentsOur new website is live, and it’s all thanks to our awesome supporters who helped us to fund it!
We hope you find the new website useful and informative.
TONIGHT AT ACADEMY THEATRE: Shirlene Holmes’s Pathways, performed by Brenda Porter
No CommentsThe Academy Theatre’s been up to some pretty exciting things since their move from Avondale Estates last year. With two new homes, one in Stockbridge and one in Hapeville,
Nearly New Festival creator Park Krausen on showcasing work by living writers
No CommentsThis weekend, “discover ‘nearly new’ work by living writers, performed by some of Atlanta’s hottest directors and actors in dialogue with amazing writers,
Essential Director Ellen McQueen Chosen for First Atlanta Artist’s Lab
1 CommentLongtime Essential Theatre director Ellen McQueen was one of the three artists chosen by the Alliance Theatre for the first Atlanta Artist’s Lab (AAL) program, through which she will be able to further develop The Projects Project,
Henritze’s Play, Bitch of Balaclava, reading tonight as part of Brave New Works at Theatre Emory
No CommentsTonight at 7pm in the Schwartz Center at Emory, former Essential Theatre collaborator Patricia Henritze’s play, The Bitch of Balaclava, is being read as part of Theater Emory’s Brave New Works series.
Congratulations to Karla Jennings and Theroun D’Arcy Patterson, Winners of the 2014 Essential Theatre Playwriting Competition!
No CommentsESSENTIAL THEATRE ANNOUNCES TWO WINNERS FOR THE 2014 PLAYWRITING CONTEST
Atlanta, January 2014 – Essential Theatre has just announced Theroun Patterson and Karla Jennings as co-winners of the 2014 Playwriting Competition.
Thank you, Daniel Burnley
No CommentsI’ve been meaning to write this post for awhile now, but every time I sit down to write, I get lost in the photos, my own memories and the Facebook posts from friends of Daniel’s.
“Connecting with Deaf Audiences” Final Report
No CommentsIn 2013 for the first time, sign language interpretation was offered as part of the Essential Theatre Festival. This was a pretty big undertaking for us – there’s a lot of work and a lot of money that goes into making this happen smoothly and well –
Interview with playwright Lee Wright
No CommentsLearn more about Lee Wright, author of Wednesday’s Bare Essentials offering, Fortunes of Warren.
A real live Georgia native!
Born and raised in north Georgia, I currently live in Lookout Mountain,