Hi Suzanne! (and Tom) This looks like a great way to read more of the arts section online. But the “Read More About” links don’t seem to link to the full article.

I’ll check back later in hopes it gets fixed. I want to read more about the Nancy Drew photographs.

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[...] Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is giving away 4,000 tickets to its last concert of the season at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in [...]

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Can’t help but wish there were more than twelve images in this series!

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balla con dioz hermano

-william

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[...] Charles Huntley Nelson, an artist and professor of art at Morehouse College, died on July 30, 2009. He was 39 [...]

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I would like to add to the list. Things Change by Lynn Hubbard. Lynn Hubbard is a local author from Hiram GA. Things Change is a fresh novel for Young Adults. I enjoyed it because there were no Vampires!

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Charles, it took me a minute to come to the new reality that our family must face. I see and realize things alot different now, and can only thank god for 38 wonderful years. You worked hard and accomplished your childhood dream here on earth. I know GOD is using you for his own purposes now. I love you and miss you, Rachel

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What a great review! I wasn’t planning on seeing this show – again – but Mr. Osborne’s review makes me think otherwise. Sounds like a fresh retelling and I’m looking forward to seeing Mr. May in action.

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The Alliance will have to field more shows that appeal to the entire Atlanta community to succeed.

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[...] Southern Writers Last month, Atlanta Journal-Constitution blogger Suzanne Van Alten suggested ten books by southern authors that are being published this fall that you might want to consider putting on your reading list. You might also want to add the [...]

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charles was one of my best friends.we worked together,shared a studio in west end atlanta for nine years.we had great times together,we never had a disagreement.chuck was a loyal friend,talented painter,and a loving father.we were in shows together since 96.after i moved to brooklyn in 2005 i saw him, he had a show at rush arts and we had a great time i had just spoke to him 2 months before he passed.i am crushed by the lost of more than a friend ,he was my brother damn.. rest in paint chuck

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did you see http://www.BREAKOUTINSONG.com? they take it to a whole new level.

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Why isn’t this article available on the AJC website? “Arts & Culture” doesn’t seem to be anywhere as a category. Why should this information only be available as an RSS feed?

In other words, why the HELL is the AJC so afraid of the arts?

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Cheesy beyond words… The audience snickered at every attempt they made at being scary. The only reason there was not outright laughter was embarrassment! One wonders if Theatre in the Square has not given up for the season due to construction.

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[...] AJC [...]

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Miss LUCY BELINGER,
WANTS PPL TO GET AHOLD OF THIS SITE FOR FREE TICKETS, SO I AM TRYING TO GET HER FREE TICKETS

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[...] The show, “Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant,” opened this week as part of Synchronicity Theatre’s season, and runs through Nov. 22 at 7 Stages. (You can see more clips from the show, and other work, like a Buffy tribute album, on Gogerty’s Web site, http://www.megangogerty.com. You can also read Wendell Brock’s “Hillary” review.) [...]

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Such disrespect is unbecoming. You are a blogger. Do you even have a sense of what is entailed in composing and orchestrating a full symphony of the highest order? You position it as if Mr. Marsalis is lazing about and ‘blowing his deadline’ because he is just an unorganized or undisciplined amateur. His history of accomplishment and prolific works assure us this is not the case. Sure it’s disappointing for the Atlanta Symphony but most great artists don’t create just to please the calendar, they are doing work that is coming from within- not easy. You’d do well to tone it down a bit and give a bit of respect to what Marsalis is obviously trying to accomplish- something new and not done before. Or try your hand at it yourself and see just how easy it is.

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I was there on Saturday afternoon, November 7th. I actually did go to sleep during the production. My wife and I agreed it was the worst show of our 15 year relationship with the Alliance. Guessing by the size of the audiance (approx 20% fill), more people knew in advance how bad this how was going to be. There is always the next show.

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[...] Stage: “The Second City: Peach Drop, Stop and Roll,” continues, 8 p.m., Alliance Theatre, Atlanta. Review. [...]

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I also attended the opera on Tuesday night, and I wonder if Mr. Ruhe saw the same performance that I did. The laughter Mr. Ruhe refers to was limited to a very small segment of the audience, several of whom were in a boisterous mood before the opera began. I was dismayed that the reviewer made a point of noting this inappropriate audience reaction (something that is beyond the control of any artist) while discounting the importance of dance in this production. Orpheus and Eurydice featured two dancers from the Atlanta Ballet, Daniel Mayo and Rachel van Buskirk, who were onstage more often than the principal singers. To ignore their contribution, and that of choreographer Keturah Stickann, does a disservice to the production, to Mr. Ruhe’s readers, and to Mr. Ruhe himself. Finally, the enthusiasm expressed for the performers during the curtain call – all of the ensemble, and not just David Daniels – belies Mr. Ruhe’s assertion that Ms. Groag’s production failed to connect with the audience. I believe, more accurately, that her direction failed to connect with one critic, and I’m sorry for his loss.

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This play was incredible. I attentionally did not research what it was about because the title (Sty of the Blind Pig) was so.. so.. “different.” Not at all what i expected, it was much more. Weedy’s (mother)character, kept the audience wrapped with her fanatical extremist religious views that she imposed on her daughter; while ironically, she was acting “un-christian” herself. (Favorite quote as she yells her adult child into submision, “Giiiirll!!! you bettuh shat up before I do you like Jesus did water!”) overall, excellent play. Grade of an A-

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Wow!!! Way to go Park. Hope to see you soon!

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No, but Mr. Marsalis has now failed to meet a deadline THREE times. Prolific composer or not, if he wasn’t going to be ready, he shouldn’t have agreed to the deadlines.

No one wants him to rush and submit mediocre work simply because of a deadline, but when people have already purchased tickets to an event, repeatedly letting people down is more than just disappointing.

No one is saying his job is easy … we would just have rather heard him say “I’m composing a work and I don’t know when it will be ready.” I can excuse him once, but not three times.

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Yup, here he goes again.. Mr. Pierre RUDE, SUCH little respect for the artists he thibnks he has the craft ti review, it really IS time he retired. He used to sound bitter, now he sounds bitter AND twisted…… sad really.

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It’s an accepted tradition in the theatre that its practioners NEVER answer a review no matter how bone-headed. However, Mahler said that tradition was the refuge of the lazy, so … here it goes.

There will always be some people that laugh inappropriately. There were some – apparently all friends of Mr. Ruhe as they seem to have been all around him – who did and … was that actually bad? It is a supremely ironic moment, that which Orfeo fears (and speaks about in great detail) actually comes to pass. It seems as if laughter of sorts (and this was discreet as well as small) wouldn’t be a bad response? I will remind Mr. Ruhe that I did not write the text, and the laughter was a reponse to the line.

Other than that, not a word for the sensational chorus? One of the best I have ever had the privilege to work with? People who sang as well as executed some very complex choreography without missing a note? Orfeo ed Euridice contains several ballets which we were not able to present but the Furies and Elysium include choreography which cannot be eluded. So the chorus did double duty: chorus and corps de ballet – this without being trained dancers. Nothing to say about that? Or the point of view of the production as an Enlightenment parable? Or the sets designed after contemporary Piranesi prints depicting his own idea of Hell?

I would have wished that Mr. Ruhe could have forgone remarks about the excellent Mr. Daniels’ new living arrangements and made a little more room to speak about the actual production and all its ideas, for or against. It seems to me that it is Mr.Ruhe who did not do his job, not me.

Thankfully the audiences have been immensely receptive with or without laughs. And … be very careful when you assign responsibility for what happens on stage. You never know.

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Oh, dear … “unattractive”? “Class decorum”? Perish the thought. So artists are not allowed to have dialogue and anyone can print anything without expecting response? Reviewing the reviewer is an old established practice, ATL Guy. Don’t read it if you don’t like it. You dont’ swound like an uninterested party yourself.

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