2010-11 Season

MainStage - Greater Tuna

Summer Shows - 06/23/2010 - 07/18/2010
Join us for the hilarious comedy set in Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. Two actors play all the inhabitants of Tuna – men, women, children, and animals. And while the laughs come thick and fast, there is real warmth and heart hidden in...
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MainStage - Stealing Dixie

MainStage Series - 08/04/2010 - 09/12/2010
A gripping portrayal of the Great Locomotive Chase, featuring Andrews’ Raiders, a band of Union soldiers and sympathizers, who pulled off a daring scheme to steal The General, a Confederate locomotive. DePoy’s script is a moving portrait of the...
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Alley Stage - How I Became a Pirate

Theatre for Youth - 09/14/2010 - 10/10/2010
Bring all your little pirates to the thrilling tale of young Jeremy Jacobs and his adventures with Captain Braid Beard and a group of motley pirates. Learn to talk like a pirate through witty songs and audience interaction. Adapted from the book...
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MainStage - Conversations with My Wife

MainStage Series - 09/29/2010 - 10/31/2010
A well-known author battling with the grief of losing his wife has a conversation that allows him to begin the next chapter. A moving, funny and tenderly human love story. A world premiere. Recommended for age 16 and up. Starring Judy Leavell...
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Alley Stage - A Tuna Christmas 2010

Holiday Shows - 11/16/2010 - 01/02/2011
A remount of last season's holiday hit. Two radio announcers portray with loving care and hilarious effectiveness the many characters of quirky Tuna, Texas, as they try to sort through the mystery of the Christmas Phantom. Recommended for ages...
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MainStage - Sanders Family Christmas

Holiday Shows - 11/23/2010 - 01/02/2011
Back again for the, let's see, 12th holiday season. The ever-loving, sunny-voiced Sanders clan once again celebrates the joyous season with some of the best loved music around. Family friendly for ages 10 and up. "Like" us on Facebook and...
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MainStage - The 39 Steps

MainStage Series - 01/19/2011 - 02/20/2011
Adapted from John Buchan’s 1915 book and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film, this incredibly fast-paced spy yarn has four characters playing multiple roles backed up by some tremendously clever staging, lighting and special effects. It all makes for...
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MainStage - The Little Foxes

MainStage Series - 03/09/2011 - 04/10/2011
A modern classic about greed and deception. Two scheming brothers and their wickedly clever and conniving sister, Regina, plot to get control of her husband's wealth. Family entanglements, strong portrayals and one of literature’s most captivating...
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MainStage - Circle Mirror Transformation

MainStage Series - 04/27/2011 - 05/29/2011
Set in a "creative" acting class, a group of aspiring actors, strangers at the beginning, attempt to create characters while revealing a great deal about their own personal makeup and their lives. Described as "absorbing, unblinking and sharply...
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2009-10 Season

MainStage - Smoke On The Mountain

Summer Shows - 06/30/2009 - 07/26/2009
***THIS WAS THE 2009 SUMMER SHOW, THE 2010 SUMMER SHOW HAS NOT BEEN ANNOUCED YET. CHECK BACK IN MARCH OR APRIL FOR MORE INFORMATION. It’s back! The original runaway hit that spawned two sequels, Sanders Family Christmas and Mount Pleasant...
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MainStage - The Savannah Disputation

MainStage Series - 08/12/2009 - 09/20/2009
Thank Heaven! - this show has been extended through Sept. 20th. Disputes involving saintly matters can be wickedly funny, as this new work by Savannah playwright Smith proves. A perky evangelical encounters a priest and two Catholic sisters....
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Alley Stage - The Library Dragon

Theatre for Youth - 09/15/2009 - 10/18/2009
FINAL WEEKEND - closes this Sunday, October 18th! Back for the kids, this tale of a fire-breathing librarian with a burning love for books is destined to delight. An original work commissioned by Theatre in the Square, it enchanted young audiences...
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MainStage - The Woman In Black

MainStage Series - 09/30/2009 - 11/01/2009
AUDIENCES ARE LOVING THIS SHOW! CLICK ON AUDIENCE REVIEWS. This thriller, still running in London after 20 years, will send fright-chills down your spine. The Guardian called this ghost story based on the book by Susan Hill "brilliantly effective"...
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Alley Stage - A Tuna Christmas

Holiday Shows - 11/18/2009 - 01/03/2010
Christmas is coming to Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. In this Suzi Award nominated show, you'll meet more than 20 different colorful characters of all ages and genders getting ready for the holiday activities at a whirlwind Texas pace....
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MainStage - Sanders Family Christmas

Holiday Shows - 11/24/2009 - 01/03/2010
A lively event that has become a family destination in the holiday season. The beloved Sanders Family (of Smoke On The Mountain and Mount Pleasant Homecoming) are dealing with the beginning of WW II and its effects on the gospel singing clan....
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MainStage - Caught In The Net

MainStage Series - 01/20/2010 - 02/21/2010
The farce master is at his reckless best in this out-of-control outing. Past works Funny Money, Out of Order and Cash on Delivery have had audiences in a laughter uproar. A bigamist taxi driver's teenage son and daughter meet on the internet...
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MainStage - Ethan Frome

MainStage Series - 03/10/2010 - 04/11/2010
AUDIENCES ARE LOVING THIS PLAY! READ THE GREAT AUDIENCE REVIEWS - A new adaption of Edith Wharton’s classic heart-wrenching tale. When a snowbound visitor arrives at the Frome farm, a mesmerizing tale unfolds, with a searing and passionate love...
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MainStage - His Eye Is On The Sparrow

MainStage Series - 04/28/2010 - 06/13/2010
NOW EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 13! Atlanta's own Bernardine Mitchell will play Ethel Waters through May 30, then Broadway actress Jannie Jones, who originated the role, will perform through June 13. See them both! The inspiring story of actress/singer...
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2008-09 Season

MainStage - Mount Pleasant Homecoming (2008)

Summer Shows - 07/10/2008 - 08/03/2008
A runaway hit last season, the beloved Sanders Family returns with the original cast for more shenanigans and their trademark gospel harmonies. The war is over, and big changes are on the way for a family that's increasing in size daily. Great...
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MainStage - Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure

MainStage Series - 08/10/2008 - 09/21/2008
Edge-of-your-seat mystery, witty dialogue and the classic fictional characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are brought together in a sparkling new version of the 1899 play. All the elements are here for great fun and wonderful theatre....
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Publix, Target, Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele presents:

Alley Stage - The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!

Theatre for Youth - 09/16/2008 - 10/26/2008
THIS SHOW HAS BEEN EXTENDED! There are two sides to every story. The Big Bad Wolf says his is the true story. In this new adaptation of the popular children's book, the Wolf has his day in court. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! is a thrilling...
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MainStage - Looking Over the President's Shoulder

MainStage Series - 09/28/2008 - 11/09/2008
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK --DON'T MISS THIS SHOW! He was an aspiring opera singer, but it was the Depression, and Alonzo Fields needed a job. So he came to work at the White House as a butler. In Looking Over the President's Shoulder, Fields reflects...
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Alley Stage - Christmas At Sweet Apple (2008)

Holiday Shows - 11/09/2008 - 12/28/2008
"...a Christmas show rife with local history and folk music". Creative Loafing This heartfelt collection of holiday stories from the pen of Celestine Sibley returns for another seasonal engagement. Tales of Jingles the dancing cow;...
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MainStage - Sanders Family Christmas (2008)

Holiday Shows - 11/16/2008 - 01/04/2009
We have just extended this very popular show to run through Jan. 4th. Since it premiered in 1999, this gentle, tuneful outing has been just the right musical gift for the whole family (and guests) at holiday time. The Sanders family singers from...
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MainStage - Secrets of a Soccer Mom

MainStage Series - 01/18/2009 - 03/01/2009
Our audiences are loving this show! In this off-Broadway play that casued much laughter in New York, three suburban moms about to play soccer against their sons reveal a lot about themselves, their pasts and the delicious secrets they picked...
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Alley Stage - High John the Conqueror and African Folktales

Theatre for Youth - 02/03/2009 - 02/15/2009
The spirited escapades of High John the Conqueror and his trickster friends are told with humor and song by the masterful storytelling of one of Atlanta's treasures, Rob Cleveland. Infused with mystery and excitement, this thrilling collection...
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MainStage - A Man for All Seasons

MainStage Series - 03/08/2009 - 04/12/2009
LAST FEW DAYS - DON"T MISS THIS SHOW! A captivating and gripping recounting of Sir Thomas More’s moral struggle to obey his conscience in defiance of England’s young King Henry VIII. In this play, which became a critically acclaimed work in both...
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Alley Stage - Speech & Debate

Alley Stage Series - 04/05/2009 - 05/03/2009
Hot New Comedy - Fresh from NY! Three teenage misfits meet in cyberspace and form a speech and debate club in order to publicly address a school sex scandal. Teen angst and insecurities bubble up with hilarious results in on-line chat rooms,...
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MainStage - Tradin' Paint

MainStage Series - 04/26/2009 - 06/07/2009
Darla Frye's life is on the skids. She's an auto parts clerk fraught with low self esteem, thanks to her boyfriend Coty, who only loves her for her fried chicken. Her saving grace is spending time at the Bristol Motor Speedway, where she befriends...
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2007-08 Season

MainStage - Turned Funny (2007)

Summer Shows - 06/17/2007 - 07/29/2007
Based on a memoir by Celestine Sibley and adapted by Phillip DePoy with original music by Phillip DePoy. Directed by Fred Chappell. You were a fan of her newspaper columns and loved her books. Come see the popular hit play based on her extraordinar...
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Dallas Theatre - Mount Pleasant Homecoming (2007)

Summer Shows - 06/22/2007 - 07/22/2007
The response to this hit play has been over whelming and the Sanders are mighty grateful, ya’ll. And since many fans have not been able to get in to see the play during its sold-out run at Theatre in the Square, Mount Pleasant Homecoming with...
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MainStage - The Persians

MainStage Series - 08/12/2007 - 09/23/2007
The battle left the sea scarlet and sands crimson at Salamis, where a greatly outnumbered Greek army repulsed the mighty Persians. This oldest surviving play in Western literature relates the aftermath from the point of view of the defeated....
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Alley Stage - Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede

Theatre for Youth - 09/10/2007 - 10/06/2007
By the same author as last summer’s sassy Cinderella Confidential, this tall tale about a huge herd of cattle that is transformed into ghosts is sure to fire imaginations of young and old. What with Missy Cougar-Wildcat and the world’s largest...
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MainStage - Rabbit Hole

MainStage Series - 09/30/2007 - 11/11/2007
A young contemporary family struggles to come to terms with losing their only child in a car accident. Events are made all the more poignant by the appearance of the remorseful teenager who was driving the car. A recent Broadway success that...
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The Thoresen Foundation presents:

Alley Stage - Christmas At Sweet Apple

Holiday Shows - 11/11/2007 - 01/06/2008
Warmly human yuletide yarns from the pen of beloved author Celestine Sibley come to life onstage in a brand new show that’s sure to become a holiday event. Tales of “Jingles,” the dancing cow, Miz Tippens, the “hero” of Snout Island and other...
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MainStage - Sanders Family Christmas (2007)

Holiday Shows - 11/20/2007 - 01/06/2008
The Sanders singers from Smoke on the Mountain and Mount Pleasant Homecoming are home on the MainStage for the holidays. Though it’s the somber beginning of World War II, the instruments and voices of the Sanders Family brighten up hearts and...
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The Facility Group presents:

MainStage - Room Service

MainStage Series - 01/13/2008 - 03/02/2008
Room Service has been extended until March 2! 5 extra shows will now be served. Check out a short video clip by clicking on Media. Often described as one of the great comedy successes of all times, this mile-a-minute, laugh-a-minute farce was...
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Bank of America presents:

Alley Stage - Reaching for the Stars: The Story of Dr. Mae Jemison

Theatre for Youth - 01/29/2008 - 02/03/2008
Playwright and actress Joanna Maddox pays tribute to space pioneer, Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut, in this one-woman show. Dr. Mae Jemison made history when she blasted off into space aboard “The Endeavor,” on September 12,...
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Alley Stage - Blue Door

Alley Stage Series - 02/17/2008 - 03/16/2008
Special Talk Back session after this Sunday 2:30 pm performance. Meet the director and actors and discuss Blue Door. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes of this show --"Easily the best stage experience Atlanta has to offer..." Click on Media...
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MainStage - The Belle of Amherst

MainStage Series - 03/09/2008 - 04/20/2008
THE BELLE OF AMHERST is the acclaimed work based on the life of Emily Dickinson, America’s greatest female poet. This brilliantly conceived one-character show traces her reclusive life from the dreamy, hopeful teenage years until she died at...
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Alley Stage - The LIttle Dog Laughed

Alley Stage Series - 03/30/2008 - 05/11/2008
NOW EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 11TH ! "A ZINGY FREE- FOR -ALL WITH BITE..." READ THE AJC REVIEW BY CLICKING ON MEDIA REVIEWS BELOW. Hollywood at its juiciest. An agent, a movie star, a hustler, and his girlfriend will do anything to get what they...
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The Thoresen Foundation presents:

MainStage - The Poetry of Pizza

MainStage Series - 04/27/2008 - 06/08/2008
A tasty morsel of a romp with the unlikely pairing of an immigrant Kurdish pizza-maker and a scholarly college professor who's visiting Copenhagen on a fellowship. When she finds herself under the spell of the creative, if a little nutty, pizza...
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2006-07 Season

MainStage - Smoke on the Mountain (2006)

Summer Shows - 06/20/2006 - 07/23/2006
The first in the ever-popular series featuring the singing Sanders Family. It premiered at Theatre in the Square in 1991 and has been a perinnial revival favorite featuring bluegrass songs from the gospel hit parade and sprinkled with the hapless...
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Alley Stage - Cinderella Confidential

Theatre for Youth - 07/17/2006 - 08/05/2006
The pince has the show. He's ready to wed. But who's the woman behind the foot? Two investigative reporters compete for the scoop of the century, interviewing everybody from a fairy godmother to Pinocchio, Jack and his cow, and other celebrities....
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MainStage - Turned Funny

MainStage Series - 08/06/2006 - 09/24/2006
You were a fan of her AJC columns and loved her books. Come see the world premiere of a play based on her extraordinary life. Celestine Sibley was not only a trailblazing journalist and a prize-winning author, but a columnist beloved as much...
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MainStage - A Life in the Theatre

MainStage Series - 10/01/2006 - 11/12/2006
One of the premiere dramatists of the American stage, David Mamet has produced a funny and acerbic tale of two actors, one on his way up and one on his way down, to give us insider's glimpses of both their time onstage and their wit and banter...
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Alley Stage - Cinderella Confidential (fall)

Theatre for Youth - 10/09/2006 - 11/04/2006
The pince has the show. He's ready to wed. But who's the woman behind the foot? Two investigative reporters compete for the scoop of the century, interviewing everybody from a fairy godmother to Pinocchio, Jack and his cow, and other celebrities....
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Alley Stage - The 1940s Radio Hour (2006)

Holiday Shows - 11/12/2006 - 01/07/2007
It opened at Thanksgiving in Theatre in the Square's very first season in 1982, and it's been a holiday tradition ever since. This year, wartime WOV signs on for its final Theatre in the Square broadcast and the fabled characters (Pops, Johnny...
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MainStage - Sanders Family Christmas (2006)

Holiday Shows - 11/19/2006 - 01/07/2007
The Sanders singers from Smoke on the Mountain once again become holiday residents on the Mainstage, where they've been delighting entire families since 1999. It's Christmas time at the beginning of World War II and changes in the wind can't...
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The Facility Group presents:

MainStage - Miss Witherspoon

MainStage Series - 01/14/2007 - 02/25/2007
Against her will, a contemporary woman, as played by Theatre in the Square favorite Shelly McCook, is caught in a cycle of reincarnation. She meets inhabitants of the spirit world who tell the persnickety Miss Witherspoon that she will keep getting...
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Alley Stage - The Boy Who Would Be King

Theatre for Youth - 01/23/2007 - 01/28/2007
Theatre Gael's WorldSong Children's Theatre along with Theatre in the Square presents this dramatization of the friends, family and events that shaped the life, character and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Perfect for school field trips.
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Alley Stage - I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda

Alley Stage Series - 02/18/2007 - 03/18/2007
An award-winning account of a young Rwandan genocide survivor and a struggling British poet who helps her write her story.
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MainStage - All the King's Men

MainStage Series - 03/11/2007 - 04/22/2007
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and became an Academy Award-winning movie. It tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern politician who resorts to corrupt methods to accomplish good deeds. The play mixes provocative political corruption with...
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Alley Stage - crooked

Alley Stage Series - 04/01/2007 - 04/29/2007
A hilarious coming of age story of a young girl who moves to rural Mississippi with her mother and meets a religious girl with an evangelical approach to life. Together they share a sensual and spiritual awakening and learn a lot about love and life.
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MainStage - Mount Pleasant Homecoming

MainStage Series - 04/29/2007 - 06/10/2007
Mount Pleasant Homecoming is a brand new musical featuring that silver-voiced Sanders Family from Smoke on the Mountain, now reunited in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church after World War II. They’re in for some big post-war changes, and you’re in...
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