The Alliance Theatre is well into its 2021/2022 Season, and we still have more exciting productions to come!
If you’re just now joining us, the first half of the season brought a host of eye-opening stories to our audiences. With Dream Hou$e closed and Toni Stone leaving the stage, there are still plenty of other stories waiting to make their debut.
Take a tour of the Shows tab on the website to see what is available to stream and purchase digital tickets.
Now, let’s get into the rest of the season!
Coming to the Coca-Cola Stage
There are two more stories waiting to grace the Coca-Cola Stage this season. Coming this March is Bina’s Six Apples, a co-production with Children’s Theatre Company.
Written by Lloyd Suh and directed by Eric Ting, Bina’s Six Apples tells the harrowing tale of a young girl from a war-torn Korea searching for her family and discovering the power of her own resilience. Throughout the run of the show, there will be loads of community events in partnership with Asian American and Pacific Islander groups to uplift AAPI voices right here in Atlanta.
Bina’s Six Apples opens March 11 and runs until March 27.
Closing out the season on the Coca-Cola stage is the world premiere of Trading Places.
This never-before-seen musical is an adaptation of the beloved 1980’s motion picture. With a book written by Thomas Lennon and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, this musical adaptation explores the parallels of poverty and privilege in a way that will have you laughing your socks off! When a stockbroker and a street hustler are forced to switch lives in a bet between two wealthy brothers, the pair face comedic challenges they never thought to imagine.
This can’t-miss musical begins on May 25 and runs through June 26.
Looking for something to do with the little ones?
You can look forward to two shows from the Ken & Kathy Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young fit for even the youngest thespian.
First up is Do You Love the Dark?
Directed by Alexis Woodard, this visually stunning production is an adaptation of the heartwarming children’s book by the Alliance Theatre’s Resident Artist & Allyship Program Director, Maya Lawrence, in partnership with the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club, and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
This story follows little Maya as she discovers the wonders of nighttime with her friendly shadows and grapples with a child’s worst enemy: bedtime. You can find this play in the Selig Family Black Box Theatre, running from February 24 to March 13.
This spring, let your little ones explore the wonders of growing your own food with the stage adaptation of In My Granny’s Garden.
Based on the precious children’s book commissioned by the Alliance Theatre in partnership with the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club, written by Pearl Cleage and Zaron Burnett Jr., and illustrated by Radcliffe Bailey, this production is sure to leave the whole family hungry for some home-grown food.
This (adjective) show, once meant to open during the 2020/21 Season, has now planted roots on the Sifly Piazza starting March 31 through April 24.
If that wasn’t enough…
If all these productions leave you itching for more ways to get involved with the Alliance Theatre, we offer tons of classes, camps, and events sure to satisfy your theatre cravings.
If you’re still aching to watch the shows that have left the stage or are simply not ready to brave theatre crowds, recently-closed productions and other Alliance projects are available to stream for a limited time on Alliance Theatre Anywhere, an online streaming platform newly introduced in the midst of COVID.
Be sure to keep an eye on our website for more ways to engage, details about our current season, and information about what is to come next season.
DREAM HOU$E addresses the personal and cultural cost of gentrification. Watch, listen, and read about Gentrification and Culture in Metro Atlanta.
What is Gentrification?
Watch & Read
Gentrification Explained | Urban Displacement Project
Watch
Gentrification: A Silent Killer Of Culture? | Chloe Gabriel | TEDxWarwickSalon
Gentrification & Culture
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Gentrification: The Atlanta Way | King Williams | TEDxGeorgiaStateU
The Atlanta Way: Rough Cut Documentary (Gentrification Movie) | King Williams | Psyentific Films/Casclayde Media
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The Neighborhood Watch Podcast | A spinoff podcast of ‘The Atlanta Way: A Documentary on Gentrification’, covering gentrification, urbanism and culture. New episodes every Wednesday at 6:30pm!
The Gentrification of Atlanta Podcast [Itunes] | Community organizer and researcher Taiza Troutman discusses gentrification, displacement, urban development, trap music, and activism in Atlanta.
Gentrification & Displacement
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Atlanta Gentrification and Displacement | Urban displacement project (interactive map)|
“The UDP typology examines processes of gentrification and displacement in low-income neighborhoods (with a median household income at 80% of the regional median) and exclusion in moderate-to-high-income neighborhoods (at 80% of the regional median or above). Neighborhoods are categorized as exclusionary when rents are so expensive that low-income people are excluded from moving in—another form of displacement. The resulting typology map demonstrates a dynamic pattern of advanced exclusivity to the north and gentrification and displacement to the south, corresponding with patterns of racial segregation and structural changes to Atlanta’s urban core.”
Housing Affordability and Public Policy
Watch
Who Will Survive The Gentrification Of Atlanta? | Interview with former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed
Read
Atlanta is Rapidly Gentrifying, Here’s Where | News article 11alive.com (2019)
Community Land Trusts: Boosting Housing Affordability and Fighting Gentrification | Atlanta Regional Commission
Neighborhood Change Report | Office of Housing & Community Development | City of Atlanta
“This report analyzes key findings related to changes in the low-income and non-low-income populations ’distribution across Atlanta’s neighborhoods from 2010 to 2018. Different types of neighborhood change are identified by economic expansion, including Growth and Low-Income Displacement, and economic decline, including Low-Income Concentration and Population Decline. Change is further explored across Atlanta by sub-groups, land-use policy, and public investment to understand how neighborhood change may be impacting populations in the City of Atlanta.”
Race & Neighborhood Identity
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“From exclusion to expulsion: demolition, displacement, and race in Atlanta’s northern suburbs” | Scott Markley, University of Georgia | Atlanta Studies Journal (2018)
Vanishing Buford Highway | Zachary Hansen | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution