2012/13 Season

An Atlanta love story.
Mini skirts and bell bottoms were on sale downtown for $8.87. Stevie Wonder was on the radio singing "Livin' for the City." And change was in the air from Buckhead to Butler Street. This sparkling new romantic comedy takes us back to 1973 and weaves a tale of passion and politics that could only happen in Atlanta. A world premiere by Pearl Cleage, best-selling novelist and author of the 2010 Alliance hit The Nacirema Society.

Sometimes you have to leave what you know to find what you need.

September 5–30
WORLD PREMIERE

Book & Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Scott Schwartz
Music by Tom Kitt

One of the most powerful stage experiences of recent years, this musical mines the humor and pathos of a suburban family grappling with mental illness. Mom, Diana, wakes up and starts making sandwiches one morning for her husband, her 16 year-old daughter, and soon-to-be 18 year-old son...a lot of sandwiches...a kitchen full of sandwiches. As Diana embarks on yet another round of treatment, family secrets emerge that force audiences to question the very idea of normal. This brilliant theatrical experience will leave you on the edge of your seat.

October 17–November 11

Written by David Lindsay Abaire
Directed by Susan V. Booth

Welcome to Southie, an Irish-American neighborhood where getting out is the dream. Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction, and with a disabled daughter to care for, Margie approaches a high school boyfriend who made it up and out and into his own medical practice. A clash of class and values, American dreams, and "doing the right thing," this funny but fierce drama will leave you talking long after the show.

January 16–February 10

Book by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson
Lyrics by Stephen Clark
Music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron

From the old American West comes the legend of Zorro, a fighter of corruption and lover of beautiful women. When Don Diego comes home from Spain, he finds his father dead and his brother running Los Angeles...badly. Don Diego's foppish exterior hides the soul of a desert fox—Zorro! A deliciously fun extravaganza that conquered audiences throughout Europe and London's West End, this wonderful musical features songs by the Gipsy Kings in a new American adaptation.

April 3–May 5

Celebrate Atlanta's finest actors in this magnificent staging of Charles Dickens's classic Christmas tale. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by four ghosts offering perspective: his old partner Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. A magical tradition for the whole family, and a great way to see the work of Atlanta's best actors portraying Dickens's beloved characters. 

November 23–December 23

Conceived and Directed by Rosemary Newcott

A unique theatre experience based on writings by real Atlanta middle school students. This show is an opportunity for audience participation, and for middle school students to discover themselves on stage. What is a Tweenager? Where is the cool between betwixt and between? Find out in this one-of-a-kind show.

October 27–November 3

The beloved children's classic comes to life through acrobatics. Rosemary Newcott directs the heart-warming tale of Wilbur the pig and Charlotte, the spider whose clever planning saves him from becoming bacon. A touching family spectacle!

February 23–March 10

Carl and his journalist sister have never seen eye to eye or been anything alike. But when he uncharacteristically asks for her help, she begins to spend more time with her odd duck of a sibling. Amid political divides, a rotating cast of girlfriends, and Carl's uniquely Jewish Western Manhood, Carl's sister experiences the extremes of family love. Exquisitely written by Uhry, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize recipient, and author of Driving Miss Daisy and Last Night of Ballyhoo.

October 5–28
WORLD PREMIERE

The Hertz Stage will be decidedly transformed into a classic honky tonk for The Chalks, an all sister Country and Western band permanently down on their luck at the local dive. Never able to live up to their own talent, they travel the country at the mercy of their sister-/wife-swapping manager. Spend an evening with their music, their stories, their really big hair – you might even find yourself a part of the show.

November 30–December 23

by Mike Lew

Penny's boyfriend exclaims, "Oh God, you're so emotionally distant. I have to have you!" She is damaged. She doesn't know who she is or her place in the world. So she drops everything to go on a cross-country bike trip from Boston to Santa Barbara. Along the way, Penny meets a colorful crew of bikers, from the lesbian couple (they've decided to get a marriage license in every state they hit) to the mysterious Man with the Van (he transports their stuff). As the bikers travel through iconic towns across the country from the far North to the Deep South, Bike America captures the restlessness of a millenial generation that will go to any lengths to find a place that always seems just out of reach

February 1–24
WORLD PREMIERE

Written by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Alexander Greenfield

April 13, 1865, Richmond, Virginia: the story begins. Wounded Jewish Confederate soldier Caleb DeLeon stumbles home. There to greet him are his family's former slaves Simon and John. And a cobbled together Passover Seder. Caught in a moment as everything changes while the past's hold remains primal, Caleb and the men celebrate Passover together where secrets are revealed and the plot twists and turns.

March 8–April 7