THEATER
Orlando-based Fruit Wine Productions will host The Golden Girls Live! at Out Front Theatre June 15 through June 25. The show is written, directed by and starring Ginger Minj from Hocus Pocus 2, Netflix’ Dumplin’ and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Tickets start at $35, and VIP opportunities to meet the cast are available.
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This weekend is your last opportunity to see Synchronicity Theatre’s latest show, In the Continuum, written by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter. Asha Basha Duniani and Dionna Davis play two women with vastly different lives who both find themselves with a shattering diagnosis. ArtsATL critic Alexis Hauk reviews Davis’ performance as touching and funny and the play as depicting important themes such as health care and HIV stigma. Tickets start at $31, with discounts available.
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A “chaotic, unforgiving and largely delightful evening of calamity” awaits you, according to ArtsATL critic Luke Evans, at The Play That Goes Wrong, onstage this weekend for its final time at Aurora Theatre. Cast members Marcello Audino, Skyler Brown and Caleb Clark are praised by Evans as being undeniably charming, winningly sardonic and hilarious, respectively. Tickets start at $21, with discounts available.
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DANCE
It’s a big week for dance in Atlanta, with the Dance/USA Conference convening for the first time in the city, and three of Atlanta’s dance change-makers receiving awards from the organization. One of them is Douglas Scott, whose 31st annual Modern Atlanta Dance (MAD) Festival will take place Thursday (for Dance/USA attendees) and Friday for the general public. Companies/choreographers on the program are: Atlanta Chinese Dance Company, Audrey Crabtree, Julio Medina/Scott Wheet, Kit Modus, Lashonda Johnson, Novoa Dances and Full Radius Dance. The Emory Performing Arts Studio at 8 pm. Pay what you can — suggested price is $20.
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. . . I Feel That is a new experiential dance-theater work by Sammy Spriggs and collaborators Leo Briggs, Sharon C. Carelock and M Wu. The event includes an experience-based prologue (including optional audience participation in a guided movement practice,) a “listening room,” and the opportunity to witness a solo danced by
opportunity to witness a solo danced by one of the collaborators. The collaborators say it’s all about joy and are offering shared food and conversation at the end. On Saturday, prologue is at 7 p.m., performance at 7:30 p.m. and epilogue at 8:30 p.m. On Sunday, the times are 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. The Dance Foundry. Tickets $10 and $20.
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Callanwolde Fine Arts Center is presenting a collaborative experience that features dance and the visual arts. Here’s the dance part: an ensemble of Atlanta dancers and guest movement artists will perform Solstice Series III: Lost Ideas Brought to Life. The performers include Callanwolde dance faculty Corian Elisor, Jessi Scopp Mcgrath, Jerylann Warner and Autumn Eckman and four guest artists: Kristin O’Neal, Alex Abarca, Los Angeles-based Adrian Hoffman, who has performed with the Alvin Ailey and BODYTRAFFIC, and New York-based Zak Ryan Schelgel, who dances with Shen Wei. Tickets $20.
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ART+DESIGN
On Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, visitors of all ages and skill levels can participate in art-making facilitated by members of the Atlanta Collage Society. RSVP required. On Thursday, June 22, the Callanwolde gallery will host an opening reception for Solstice Series III from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The opening will include live music, an artists’ talk and a dance performance. Both events are free.
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Fathers get free admission at Hammonds House Museum on Sunday in celebration of Fathers Day. The museum’s current exhibit, Atlanta Black, by artist Paul Stephen Benjamin, examines the existence of Blackness beyond our own imagination. Tickets for nonfathers $10. Free for members.
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The Miami Circle Gallery Stroll happens once a quarter. This month, it will take place Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. That means galleries such as Thomas Deans Fine Art, Johnson Lowe Gallery, September Gray Fine Art, Alan Avery Art Company, Mason Fine Art, Marcia Wood Gallery, Maune Contemporary and many more are open and welcoming visitors. Some may be offering wine and small bites. Free.
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MUSIC
The Secret Sisters — Laura and Lydia Rogers — grew up in Muscle Shoals, and their Southern-flavored harmonies and the richness of traditional country music marked their debut album in 2010. The duo’s album You Don’t Own Me Anymore garnered a Grammy nomination in 2017, and one of their songs was included in a soundtrack for The Hunger Games. Their new album, Saturn Return, was co-produced by Brandi Carlile. The Secret Sisters perform at Eddie’s Attic Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $26.70.
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The 2022-23 season for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the first under the baton of Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann, will close with what promises to be a concert to remember Thursday and Saturday. At 6:45 p.m. both nights, there will be a screening of the documentary My Boléro with Nathalie Stutzmann, produced by the ASO, that follows Stutzmann as she investigates what lies at the heart of Ravel’s classic piece. That will be followed at 8 p.m. by a concert that features Boléro, in addition to Beethoven and Wagner. Tickets start at $37.
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BOOKS
Ruth P. Watson will discuss her new novel, A Right Worthy Woman, at the Atlanta History Center Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of its Author Talk series. The book is based on the true story of a former slave who became the first Black woman to establish and run a bank in the United States. Watson, who lives in Atlanta, will be in conversation with fellow Atlanta novelist Vanessa Riley. Tickets start at $10 for nonmembers and $5 for members.
