Showcasing Georgia’s Best Playwrights
2021
Essential Theatre
Play Festival
November 5-21
Essential is back live this fall, bringing the 2021 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award winning plays, Calming the Man by Anthony Lamarr White and Raising the Dead by Erin Considine, to the stage along with a two night only encore performance of Shelby Hofer’s High Risk, Baby!
*Mask and proof of vaccination or negative COVID test required for all audience members.
Named Best New Play Incubator by Atlanta Magazine in 2018, Essential Theatre has given Georgia playwrights a voice for the past twenty-two years, producing 30+ World Premieres and helping launch the careers of nation-wide successes like Topher Payne and Lauren Gunderson.
You won’t want to miss ANY of what we’ve got in store for you at the 2021 Essential Theatre Play Festival:
2021 Festival Plays
Raising the Dead
On a hot night in New Orleans, two very different women — lost in loneliness…
Calming the Man
In the summer of the American Bicentennial, two sons try to escape the rage and…
Essential Theatre Presents:
High Risk, Baby!
The funny and heart-expanding true story about one woman’s wild and epic journey into motherhood….
In the Press
Theater Notes (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Join Us!
November 5-21
Live, in person, at the Fulton County Arts & Culture West End Performing Arts Center, the festival’s home since 2014.
West End Performing Arts Center
945 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard
Atlanta, GA 30310
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2021 Sponsors
