The Alliance Theatre today announced updates to its 2020/21 season, including a new Under the Tent Series to provide more socially-distanced performance options. The Under the Tent Series will include a concert staging of the hit Broadway musical WORKING, as well as concert-style performances of BEAUTIFUL BLACKBIRD and SONGS TO GROW ON for youth and families. The Alliance will also host [partner organization] who will program [something]. The tent will be erected on Callaway Plaza adjacent to the Alliance Theatre’s home at the Woodruff Arts Center.
“Our Under the Tent series offers meaningful entertainment, socially distanced seating, CDC recommended safety protocols, and – most importantly – a step back toward sharing theatre together as artists and audience,” said Susan V. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director.
Following the success of the Alliance’s drive-in production of A Christmas Carol: The Live Radio Play, the Under the Tent series will utilize enhanced COVID safety procedures including open-air seating, socially distanced seating in two- and four-person pods, contactless entry, and required use of face masks. Click [here (link for the FAQs page)] for additional details.
The Alliance’s previously announced virtual programming for the 2020/21 season will continue on the new streaming platform ALLIANCE THEATRE ANYWHERE and include SIT-IN, an animated adaptation of Pearl Cleage’s world premiere play for youth and family audiences; LAUGH TRACK, a 6-episode comedy series created in collaboration with Dad’s Garage; BACKSTAGE ATLANTA, a behind-the-scenes look at the art, food, and style that make Atlanta the city it is; CLASSIC REMIX, a series taking a modern approach to traditional texts; SPOTLIGHT STUDIO, an innovative series dedicated to spotlighting virtual projects by local Atlanta artists; and SOUNDS OF THE WESTEND, a new feature for the Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young.
To accommodate these changes and due to continuing circumstances related to COVID-19, the following previously announced productions are being adjusted. HANDS UP will move to the 2021/22 season and will open the Hertz Stage in Fall 2021. TONI STONE will also move to the 2021/22 season with timing to be determined. DATA, the 2021 winner of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, will shift exclusively Alliance Theatre Anywhere as a digital-only streaming production in [month] 2021. ACCIDENTAL HEROES has been cancelled at this time but may be reprogrammed in another season.
Tickets for the Under the Tent series will be available to the public on February 17. Patrons can sign up for a pre-sale ahead of the public on-sale date here.