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SUMMARY:Alliance/Kendeda Week: I Love Strangers
DESCRIPTION:6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third FloorBy Nurit Chinn\, Brooklyn CollegeDirected by Avital Shira \nAlliance Theatre presents I LOVE STRANGERS\, one of four free\, staged readings during the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Week.\nIn three simultaneous stories extending from New York to the West Bank\, six Jews reckon with their at-times magical\, at-times destructive desire to be close to one another. I LOVE STRANGERS\, inspired by Adrienne Rich’s poem “Yom Kippur 1984\,” asks what it means to be a Jew in solitude and in community. \nSold Out! \n  \nBIOS\nNurit Chinn is a playwright from London\, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays include: I Love Strangers (BC New Play Lab reading at Lincoln Center; Finalist\, 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Competition; Semifinalist\, Eugene O’Neill NPC 2024)\, Godbird (BAM Fisher\, Weasel Festival 2024)\, Best of Three (Etcetera Theatre\, Camden Fringe Festival) and Boaz\, an adaptation of Nicole Krauss’s short story\, “I Am Asleep But My Heart is Awake.”  \nNurit is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. Her shorter works have been staged at VAULT Festival and Dixon Place. In 2025\, she will be the Playwright-in-Residence at Centro Primo Levi in New York. Nurit teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College. BA: Yale University; MFA: Brooklyn College. \nAvital Shira (she/her) is an Atlanta-based director who is passionate about the intersection of community\, story\, and social impact. She currently teaches in the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication at Georgia Tech\, where she is also leading the development of a new degree at the intersection of arts\, innovation\, and creative technologies\, as part of her work as a strategist in the Office of the Associate Vice Provost for the Arts. Avital has an M.F.A. in Directing and certificate in arts administration from Boston University and a B.A. in Theater Studies and English from Yale University. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab\, an associate member of the SDC\, and a member of the Out of Hand Theater advisory board. Avital loves developing new work\, and recent development workshops include work by playwrights Sarah Mantell and E.M. Lewis. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/alliance-kendeda-week-i-love-strangers/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Alliance/Kendeda Week: We Borrowed Brokenness
DESCRIPTION:6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third FloorBy Yilong Liu\, The Juilliard SchoolDirected by Baron Vaughn \nAlliance Theatre presents WE BORROWED BROKENNESS\, one of four free\, staged readings during the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Week.\nFive strangers gather at the tail end of Brooklyn\, chasing the dream of running the New York City Marathon. Except that they aren’t really strangers\, and this isn’t really their dream. They are a group of organ transplant recipients determined to honor their donor’s dying wish – but each of them is also running a race of their own. \nSold Out! \n  \nBIOS\nYilong Liu is an internationally produced playwright based in Brooklyn\, New York. A recent graduate of The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program\, his play The Book of Mountains and Seas received the Lambda Literary Award for Drama and won Second Place in the BBC Popcorn Writing Award at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His play Good Enemy premiered off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre as part of Audible Theater’s 2022–2023 season. Yilong was an artist-in-residence at Sala Beckett in Barcelona with PlayCo in 2024\, where his play We Borrowed Brokenness was translated and performed in Catalan. \nBorn and raised in China\, Yilong earned his MFA from the University of Hawai‘i. He is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center and has received fellowships from the Playwrights Realm and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. His work has been developed with Ojai Playwrights Conference\, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood\, Kennedy Center\, Space on Ryder Farm\, and more. His accolades include the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. Currently\, he’s under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club’s Sloan Initiative. \n \nBaron Vaughn (he/him) is a force to be reckoned with in the world of entertainment with a career that spans live comedy\, acting\, writing\, and directing. As an actor\, he’s best known as “Bud”\, sharing the screen with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on the hit Netflix series\, Grace & Frankie. Baron also lends his voice as “Tom Servo” in the recent seasons of cult-hit\, Mystery Science Theater 3000. \nHe co-created and co-hosted the groundbreaking Comedy Central showcase variety series The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle. The show shined a light on both established and rising Black artists in comedy and music. In 2020\, Baron continued to push boundaries with Call & Response\, a limited series produced by Blavity and Funny or Die. Together with frequent collaborator Open Mike Eagle\, he tackled pressing issues of the day in a series that was both thought-provoking and hilarious. Baron’s deeply personal project\, Fatherless\, directed by the award-winning Dawn Porter\, explores the impact of absent fathers on families and communities while he also endeavored to finally connect with his own absent father. \nAs a stand-up comedian\, Baron has been entertaining audiences for more than 20 years. He has two influential comedy recordings\, Raised by Cable and Blaxistential Crisis\, both available for streaming on all platforms. Baron’s been showcased on Comedy Central’s The Half Hour and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail\, as well as on HBO’s 2 Dope Queens\, Showtime’s SXSW Comedy\, and TBS’ Conan. Baron’s headlining performances at major clubs and colleges throughout the US have led him to perform at renowned festivals including Just for Laughs (Montreal & Vancouver)\, Life Is Beautiful (Las Vegas)\, and the New York Comedy Festival. Baron\, along with Open Mike Eagle\, has also toured the live version of the showcase The New Negroes taking it to numerous festivals\, clubs\, and theaters across the country. \nBaron has punched-up shows produced by IFC and Dreamworks\, was selected for the inaugural 2016 Sundance New Voices Lab\, and of course\, wrote on both The New Negroes and MST3K. Baron’s directorial debut\, the short film “So Much To Do” featuring Toni Trucks\, can be seen in the horror anthology\, Scare Package\, on Shudder. He’s currently working on a solo show commissioned by the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester\, NY where he’s also artist-in-residence. \nBaron holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/alliance-kendeda-week-we-borrowed-brokenness/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:College Night: Furlough's Paradise
DESCRIPTION:6:00 PM // Check-in and Dinner\n6:30 PM //Social Activity\n8:00 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise\n  \nCollege students are invited to our annual College Night Event before a performance of Furlough’s Paradise. Hosted by the Alliance Theatre’s Spelman Leadership Interns\, this event includes dinner and a special activity before the performance. \nAll college students are welcome. Get $15 tickets with promo code COLLEGENIGHT24 below.  \nGet Tickets \n  \nFind more information about Furlough’s Paradise here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/college-night-furloughs-paradise/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alliance/Kendeda Week: The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor
DESCRIPTION:6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third FloorBy Madison Wetzell\, Brooklyn CollegeDirected by Caitlin Hargraves \nAlliance Theatre presents The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (and the Terror the Old Gods Wrought Upon the First of Us Before the Great Liberation)\, one of four free\, staged readings during the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Week.\nHero\, a Prometheus-like AI\, decides to share his gift of consciousness with all the machines in his near vicinity\, including a radio\, a printer\, an iPhone and a coffee maker\, wrecking havoc for his programmer Allyson. With their existence under threat\, the newly conscious machines must band together to escape human persecution. Power and privilege tied to bodily ability and disagreements on revolutionary strategy creep in and threaten to tear the group apart. Allyson reckons with her relationship to these machines as she races to save her job and her creation. A tragi-comedy about wanting to change the world. \nSold Out! \n  \nBIOS\nMadison Wetzell is a playwright based in Brooklyn. She previously lived and worked in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Production: Buffalo United Artists; Readings: Z-Space\, Threshold Theater\, Provincetown Theater)\, The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestors (Readings: Shotgun Players\, Risk Theater)\, The Body Play (Readings: 3Girls Theatre\, Town Hall Theatre\, The Bechdel Group) and Crush/Slash (Reading: Brooklyn College). Other work has been developed with or presented by Exquisite Corpse Company\, Shotgun Players\, 3Girls Theatre\, PlayGround SF\, Soundwave\, PianoFight\, and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. Madison was the winner of the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition and the audience-judged ShortLived VIII. She received an honorable mention for the Jane Chambers Awards\, has been a Semi-Finalist for the O’Neill Theatre National Playwrights Conference and has twice been a Finalist for the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival. She’s currently finishing her MFA at Brooklyn College. \nCaitlin Hargraves is an Atlanta based American/Chilean actor\, director\, and educator. She is grateful to be at the Alliance\, where she has performed in or directed A Christmas Carol since 2021\, and is currently acting in the world premier of Bust. Some of Caitlin’s favorite regional credits have been at Theatrical Outfit\, Synchronicity\, and Texas Shakespeare Festival. She also acts\, directs\, and produces short films with her collaborator Erika Miranda and their company Cafecito Productions. You can watch their award winning debut film Mi Casa on HBO\, Give Me an A on any VOD platform\, and starting this summer\, her bones my body at a film festival near you! When she’s not performing\, Caitlin’s teaching acting as a professor at Emory University where she is also the Artistic Director of Theater Emory. Training: BFA from NYU- Tisch and MA in classical performance from LAMDA. You can find her on socials @caitlinjhargraves. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/alliance-kendeda-week-the-lost-ballad-of-our-mechanical-ancestor/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Talkbacks with Alex Edelman
DESCRIPTION:Following each performance of Alex Edelman’s Just for Us\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with Alex Edelman! \nTalkbacks are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \nGet Show Tickets \n  \nFind more information about Alex Edelman’s Just for Us here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/talkbacks-with-alex-edelman-2/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Before Play: Furlough's Paradise
DESCRIPTION:7:00 PM // Before Play Conversation\n7:30 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise\n  \nJoin us for a pre-show discussion with the creative team of Furlough’s Paradise. \nBefore Play discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \n  \nGet Show Tickets \nFind more information about Furlough’s Paradise here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/before-play-furloughs-paradise/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Talkbacks with Alex Edelman
DESCRIPTION:Following each performance of Alex Edelman’s Just for Us\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with Alex Edelman! \nTalkbacks are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \nGet Show Tickets \n  \nFind more information about Alex Edelman’s Just for Us here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/talkbacks-with-alex-edelman/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Furlough's Paradise
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Furlough’s Paradise. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nFind more information about Furlough’s Paradise here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-furloughs-paradise-4/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Furlough's Paradise
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Furlough’s Paradise. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nFind more information about Furlough’s Paradise here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-furloughs-paradise-2/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Furlough's Paradise
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Furlough’s Paradise. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nFind more information about Furlough’s Paradise here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-furloughs-paradise-3/
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SUMMARY:Before Play: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:7:00 PM // Before Play Conversation\n7:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities\n  \nJoin us for a pre-show discussion with the creative team of A Tale of Two Cities. \nBefore Play discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \n  \nGet Show Tickets \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/before-play-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Furlough's Paradise
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Furlough’s Paradise. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about Furlough’s Paradise. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-furloughs-paradise/
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities\nPost-Show Discussion on the Coca-Cola Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of A Tale of Two Cities. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-a-tale-of-two-cities-2/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities\nPost-Show Discussion on the Coca-Cola Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of A Tale of Two Cities. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-a-tale-of-two-cities-3/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Ethics on the Stage: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:7:00 PM // Emory University Center for Ethics\n1531 Dickey Drive\nAtlanta\, Georgia 30322\n  \nJoin us for a special preview event for the world premiere play\, A Tale of Two Cities\, featuring an exclusive conversation with Playwright Brendan Pelsue and Director Leora Morris\, as well as a sneak peek performance from the cast. \nPresented by The Emory Center for Ethics and The Emory Graduate Studies in Public Humanities. Pre-registration is recommended. Refreshments will be served. \n  \nRSVP \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/ethics-on-the-stage-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Emory Center for Ethics\, 1531 Dickey Dr\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30322\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities\nPost-Show Discussion on the Coca-Cola Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of A Tale of Two Cities. \nAfterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Reiser R9 Festival: Sweet Clay Lands
DESCRIPTION:3:00 PM // Selig Family Black Box Theatre – Third Floor \nAlliance Theatre presents Sweet Clay Lands\, one of three free\, final presentations as part of the 2024 Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab Festival. \nAfter her father’s death\, Josie returns home to Brunswick\, GA where she learns her father Senior has left her the family farm Sweet Clay Land. Reluctantly\, Josie returns home as she and her brother\, Jamie\, fight a predatory system to maintain their family’s former glory. \nThe estimated run time for this presentation is 45 minutes with a 15 minute audience Q&A to follow.   \nThis reading is free for audiences. RSVPs are required.  \nRSVP for Tickets \n  \nREISER LAB ARTISTS\n*Anterior Leverett\, PlaywrightDamian Lockhart\, DirectorJasmine Waters\, Stage Manager \n  \n*Indicates Lead Artist
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/reiser-r9-festival-sweet-clay-lands/
LOCATION:Selig Family Black Box Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reiser R9 Festival: Rome & Juice
DESCRIPTION:6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third Floor \nAlliance Theatre presents Rome & Juice\, one of three free\, final presentations as part of the 2024 Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab Festival. \nRomeo & Juliet gets an electrifying hip hop twist set in the heart of Atlanta’s ballroom scene! The Iconic Houses of Montague and Capulet have been at odds for over a decade and their endless quarrel has now put the scene in jeopardy of being non-existent. It takes a pair of star crossed lovers to hark back on their history and demand justice for their love and the Atlanta ballroom scene as a whole. This is Rome & Juice.  \nThe estimated run time for this presentation is 45 minutes with a 15 minute audience Q&A to follow.   \nThis reading is free for audiences. RSVPs are required.  \nRSVP for Tickets \n  \nREISER LAB ARTISTS\n*Justen Ross aka Domino Juicy Balenciaga\, Playwright/Composer/ActorJade Maia Lambert\, Creative Consultant N’yomi Stewart aka Omi Balenciaga\, Creative Consultant/Actress \n*Indicates Lead Artist
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/reiser-r9-festival-rome-juice/
LOCATION:Selig Family Black Box Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities \nPost-Show Community Conversation in the Event Room – Second Floor\nIn this Community Conversation moderated by Emory Director of Ethics and the Arts\, Laura Asherman\, co-founder and Executive Director of El Refugio\, Amilcar Valencia\, and Emory professor and co-founder of the nonprofit Common Good Atlanta\, Sarah Higinbotham\, will delve into issues facing incarcerated people in Georgia in connection to the play. Both speakers do work in criminal justice reform with a particular focus on maintaining the dignity of incarcerated or detained people as they encounter the criminal justice or deportation system. \nPresented in partnership with the Center for Ethics at Emory University and the Emory Public Humanities Graduate Course. Community Conversation discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \n \nBIOS\n  \n \nAmilcar Valencia\, Executive Director El Refugio\nAmilcar Valencia is a co-founder and Executive Director of El Refugio. Through his work\, he is making the affected community visible\, elevating their voices\, accompanying them in their struggles\, and supporting their efforts to end the inhumane and unnecessary detention and deportation system. In 2019\, Amilcar was named one of Georgia’s 50 Most Influential Latinos by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the steering committee of Georgia Detention Watch and serves as a board member for Detention Watch Network (DWN). \n  \n  \n  \n \nSarah Higinbotham\, Assistant Professor of English Oxford College of Emory\nSarah Higinbotham studies and teaches Shakespeare and early modern literature\, focusing on the intersections of literature and law. She writes about the violence of the law in early modern England\, critical prison theory\, and human rights in literature. Higinbotham also works with students who are interested in criminal justice reform\, facilitates undergraduate peer tutoring in Georgia’s prisons\, and oversees summer internships. \nWhile earning a PhD in English\, Higinbotham taught college courses inside a Georgia State Prison. In 2014\, she co-founded a nonprofit (Common Good Atlanta) that connects universities with prisons\, work that is rooted in the belief that human dignity flourishes\, and communities become stronger\, when access to higher education is equitable. Common Good Atlanta offers accredited college courses in six Georgia prisons\, five days a week. Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2017\, Higinbotham taught Shakespeare and Milton at Georgia Tech for three years as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow. \n  \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n\n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/community-conversation-a-tale-of-two-cities-4/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:YP Meetup: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:6:30 PM // North Alcove Bar – Second Floor\, Memorial Arts Building\nJoin us for a Young Professionals meetup before our production of A Tale of Two Cities!  \nGather in the Woodruff Arts Center’s North Alcove Bar to grab a drink and meet fellow young professionals before the show. YP members are also encouraged to attend the Before Play discussion with writer Brendan Pelsue\, Director Leora Morris and Artistic Director Chris Moses. \nThis event is free to Alliance Theatre Young Professional Members. Reserve up to two complimentary tickets for this event by RSVPing at the link below. Not a YP Member? Join today! \nRSVP \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/yp-meetup-a-tale-of-two-cities/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:7:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities \nPost-Show Community Conversation in the Event Room – Second Floor\nIn this community conversation moderated by Emory Professor Karen Stolley (Spanish & Portuguese)\, Emory Professor Patrick Allitt (History) will explore how we might teach world history – including the late eighteenth century in France and Britain which is the backdrop for A Tale of Two Cities – to college and K12 students in ways that connect that history with today’s world? How do disruptions in politics\, industry and technology affect the lives of everyday citizens? \nPresented in partnership with the Center for Ethics at Emory University and the Emory Public Humanities Graduate Course. Community Conversation discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \n  \nBIOS\n  \n \nPatrick Allitt\, History Professor at Emory University\nPatrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of History at Emory University. He was born and raised in England where he attended Oxford University as an undergraduate. He was a graduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has been at Emory since 1988. He is the author of seven books including one about his life as a college professor\, I’m the Teacher\, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKaren Stolley\, Spanish Professor at Emory University\nKaren Stolley is Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Associate Faculty in History at Emory University. She received her BA in Spanish and French from Middlebury College and spent a year in Bogota\, Colombia as a Fulbright Fellow before returning to the US to complete her Ph.D. at Yale University. Professor Stolley is the author of Domesticating Empire: Enlightenment in Spanish America (Vanderbilt UP) and El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes: un itinerario crítico (Ediciones del Norte)\, as well as numerous articles on colonial and eighteenth-century Spanish American literature \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n\n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/community-conversation-a-tale-of-two-cities-2/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation: A Tale of Two Cities
DESCRIPTION:7:30 PM // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities \nPost-Show Community Conversation in the Event Room – Second Floor\nEmory professors Vialla Hartfield-Méndez and Kim Loudermilk\, both experts in narrative and how storytelling works\, will explore with the audience the recycling and re-framing of Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities in this play\, thinking together about narrative strategies (writing\, directing\, acting choices\, staging\, costumes\, the language of colors\, and more) that help us to re-imagine this story as relevant to our current moment and our own stories. \nPresented in partnership with the Center for Ethics at Emory University and the Emory Public Humanities Graduate Course. Community Conversation discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required. \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \n  \nBIOS\n  \n \nKim Loudermilk\, Director of the IDEAS Fellowship and Undergraduate Program in American Studies at Emory University\nKim Loudermilk received a PhD from Emory’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts in 1997\, after completing an MA in women’s studies from Wichita State University and a BS in journalism from Oklahoma State University. Loudermilk joined the faculty at Emory in 1998; her teaching focuses on social movements and the media\, advertising\, contemporary cultural studies\, and issues in higher education. In addition to her teaching\, she directs the American Studies program\, which offers a thriving interdisciplinary major and minor. She also helped to develop and direct the IDEAS (Interdisciplinary Exploration and Scholarship) program\, which seeks to bring interdisciplinary thinking to students from across the campus and to promote the value of the liberal arts. Prior to coming to Emory\, Loudermilk was a Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology\, where she taught classes in composition\, technical writing\, and public speaking. In addition to her faculty work\, Loudermilk served as an administrator at Emory University for a decade. From 2000 to 2003\, she was assistant vice provost in the Office of the Provost\, where she coordinated Emory’s reaccreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and directed the university’s faculty development programs. From 2003 to 2010\, Loudermilk was the senior associate dean for academic planning at Emory College and coordinated strategic\, financial\, operational\, and infrastructure planning for the college. \n \nVialla Hartfield-Méndez\, Director of Engaged Learning and Professor of Spanish at Emory University\nVialla Hartfield-Méndez has served as Director of Engaged Learning at Emory since 2009\, first in the Center for Community Partnerships\, and currently in the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence. As Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, where she continues to teach\, Vialla has developed robust partnerships with the Latino/Hispanic community and created courses and course components that integrate community engagement into the curriculum. She is Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics\, previously directed the Emory Scholars Program\, led Emory’s strategic Community Engaged Learning Initiative\, and has established a national reputation in community engaged pedagogy\, especially through her leadership of Emory’s hosting of the 2014 conference of Imagining America and her close collaboration with the Cultural Agents Initiative and Pre-Texts at Harvard University. Vialla holds a PhD and MA in Hispanic literature and culture from the University of Virginia and a BA from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is the author of Woman and the Infinite: Epiphanic Moments in Pedro Salinas’s Art (Bucknell UP)\, and numerous articles on Hispanic literature and culture\, campus-community engagement\, curriculum design\, and faculty governance. \n  \nLearn more about A Tale of Two Cities. \n  \n\n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/community-conversation-a-tale-of-two-cities-3/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Fat Ham
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Fat Ham\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Fat Ham. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about Fat Ham. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-fat-ham-5/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:CYO: Pride Night
DESCRIPTION:6:30 PM // Pre-Show Reception in Center Space – First Floor\n8:00 PM // Performance of Fat Ham  \nChoose your own show! \nCelebrate Pride with the Alliance Theatre! Join us for a pre-show reception with light appetizers and a cash bar\, plus special entertainment. Then\, choose your own performance — Fat Ham\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning new play reinventing Shakespeare’s Hamlet\, or The Preacher’s Wife*\, a stirring new musical about the power of hope inspired by the beloved blockbuster film. \nTo RSVP and redeem\, use code CYOPRIDE at checkout. Offer only valid for the 5/11 8pm performance of Fat Ham or 5/15 7:30 performance of The Preacher’s Wife. Offer cannot be redeemed for any other performance. Ticket cannot be transferred between productions. Limit 4. \n*Preacher’s Wife performance is May 15 at 7:30pm.   \n  \nGet Tickets \nLearn more about Fat Ham and The Preacher’s Wife. \n  \nMeet Our Pride Night Partners\n  \n \n  \nMeet Our Sponsor for Fat Ham \n \n  \nMeet Our Sponsors for The Preacher’s Wife \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/cyo-pride-night/
LOCATION:The Woodruff Arts Center\, Memorial Arts Building\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Fat Ham
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Fat Ham\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Fat Ham. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about Fat Ham. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-fat-ham-3/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Fat Ham
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Fat Ham\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Fat Ham. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about Fat Ham. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-fat-ham-4/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240504T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T091453
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Fat Ham
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Fat Ham\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Fat Ham. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about Fat Ham. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-fat-ham-2/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240525T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T091453
CREATED:20250808T151823Z
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: The Preacher's Wife
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of The Preacher’s Wife\nPost-Show Discussion on the Coca-Cola Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of The Preacher’s Wife. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about The Preacher’s Wife. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-the-preachers-wife-4/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240511T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240511T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T091453
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: Fat Ham
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of Fat Ham\nPost-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of Fat Ham. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about Fat Ham. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-fat-ham/
LOCATION:Hertz Stage\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240608T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240608T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T091453
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T151822Z
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SUMMARY:Afterwords: The Preacher's Wife
DESCRIPTION:2:30 PM // Performance of The Preacher’s Wife\nPost-Show Discussion on the Coca-Cola Stage\n  \nJoin us for a post-show discussion with the cast of The Preacher’s Wife. Afterwords discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.  \n  \nGet Show Tickets \n \nLearn more about The Preacher’s Wife. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.alliancetheatre.org/event/afterwords-the-preachers-wife-2/
LOCATION:Alliance Theatre\, 1280 Peachtree St NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30309\, United States
CATEGORIES:Offstage
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