Items for the calendar may be e-mailed to TravisH@dekalbchamp.com

Note that items in this free listing should concern community and nonprofit events. They are placed on a space-available basis and priority is given to DeKalb County events. Items for the community calendar should reach The Champion no later than one week before the date they are to be published.

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PushPush Theater

East Decatur Station

121 New Street, Decatur

(404) 377-6332

pushpushtheater@gmail.com

 

 Zoo Story—Through Feb. 27

In this Edward Albee play, Peter is a middle-class publishing executive with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets, who lives in ignorance of the world outside his settled life. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man who lives in a boarding house and is very troubled. They meet on a park bench. Ironic humor and unrelenting dramatic suspense are brought to a climax when Jerry brings his victim down to his own savage level. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays, Feb. 19 - 27 and Monday, Feb 15, at 10 p.m. Performances are pay-what-you-can, $10-$25. 

 

 

ART Station

Historic Stone Mountain Village 

5384 Manor Drive, Stone Mountain

(770) 469-1105

www.artstation.org

 

White Trash Goes High Society – March 3 - 14

 Join the journey of Fannie Ruth Rutledge from Southern honky-tonks and dives to New York City café society with music including country, jazz, standards, Broadway and today’s top hits.  Lisa Paige is hailed as Atlanta’s top cabaret singer.  This wonderfully fun musical journey is musically directed by ART Station’s own Patrick Hutchison. 

Sketchworks Theatre

3041 N. Decatur Road, Scottdale

www.sketchworkscomedy.com

Super Solid Gold Mega Hits!—Through March 13

 Sketchworks Theatre presents what it calls “the very best sketches from our recent best shows.” Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17 at the door, $15 online and $10 each for groups of 10 or more.

 

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Theater Lab

Emory University

1700 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta

(404) 727-5050

www.arts.emory.edu

 

 Frankenstein—Through Feb. 27

This puppet play directed by Jon Ludwig of Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts is based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Commissioned and produced for the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival, the play received national and international acclaim and was heralded as one of the highlights of the festival by art critics, including Newsweek magazine and the Boston Globe. Performances are Thursday, Feb. 18– Sunday, Feb. 21, and Wednesday, Feb. 24– Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $18, $14 for discount category members and $6 for Emory students. There will be a pay-what-you-can-at-the-door performance Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. 

 

 

Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre
Company 

Southwest Arts Center 

915 New Hope Road, Atlanta

(404) 588-0308

www.truecolorstheatre.org 

 

Our Town – Feb. 25 – March 21

This timeless classic of the American theater is seen through new eyes in Kenny Leon’s multi-cultural reinvention. Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, is a small, out-of-the-way town whose citizens mirror the timeless concerns of all humankind. Dramatically revealing that human life, however painful, dreary, or inconsequential its daily events is both a precious gift in its own right as well as a portion of the mysterious plan that rests in the Mind of God. An immortal tale that powerfully describes how we view ourselves.

 

 

Theatrical Outfit

The Balzer Theater at Herren’s

84 Luckie St. NW, Atlanta

(678) 528-1500

www.theatricaloutfit.org

 

The Sunset Limited– March 17 – April 11

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a dilapidated tenement where a life or death decision raises the existential question: is there light at the end of the tunnel? In a split-second intervention, the character Black, a Christian ex-con, prevents the character White, a nihilistic and world-weary professor, from hurtling himself in the path of an oncoming commuter train. The ensuing philosophical sparring between the two sparks an intriguing articulation of opposing belief systems. 

 

OnStage Atlanta Theatre Company 

2597 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta

(404) 897-1802

www.onstageatlanta.com

 

Three Days of Rain — Through March 6

In this tense and brittle reunion, much more is at stake than who gets the house.  Brother and sister discover their father’s diary and use it to create a story for themselves that will make sense of their parents’ passionless marriage. Over the “three days of rain” entered in the young architect’s diary, the same actors then play their own parents and reveal a romantic significance and creative dilemma that these children could never have imagined. Three Days of Rain marks the return of Barbara Cole Uterhardt to the stage after a two-year absence, as well as the first all-company production at OnStage Atlanta since All in the Timing two years ago. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

 

 

Michael C. Carlos Museum

571 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta

(404) 727-4282

www.carlos.emory.edu

 

When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection –March 18 - July 12

The Carlos Museum brings the splendor of Indian art and culture to Atlanta. This exhibition celebrates the awe-inspiring technical craftsmanship of Indian jewelry with more than 150 pieces spanning 2,000 years.

 

 

High Museum of Art

1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta

(404) 733-HIGH

www.high.org

 

The Portrait Unbound-Robert Weingarten’s photography series – Through May 30

Robert Weingarten’s photography series The Portrait Unbound represents a bold departure from traditional portraiture. Using layers of imagery that allude to specific interests, achievements or moments within the subject’s life, Weingarten digitally creates large-scale composite images that describe his subjects through biographical rather than physical information. 

 

This exhibition features 21 images that represent notable individuals from the worlds of art, science, politics and sports. Weingarten’s subjects include such icons as Hank Aaron, Buzz Aldrin, Chuck Close, Jane Goodall, Dennis Hopper and Colin Powell. 

 

A short film by Neal Broffman that details Weingarten’s artistic background and inventive methods will accompany the exhibition.

 

 

 

The Seen Gallery

415 Church Street, Decatur

(404) 377-0733

www.theseengallery.com 

 

New Work by Jason Sweet – Jan. 2

Jason presents his work in a variety of venues and mediums.  He creates sculpture, paintings, drawings, and is active in performance art.  Within those venues one will find work that may deal with strictly nonobjective formal aesthetics or work that is created for strictly conceptual purposes.  

 

 

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

571 South Kilgo Circle, Atlanta

(404) 727-4282

www.carlos.emory.edu

 

 

Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century – Through Jan. 24

The exhibition, featuring works by Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert, and Hieronymus Wierix among others, explores the ways in which printed illustrations of biblical and other religious themes supplemented and magnified the texts they accompanied during a period of dramatic religious and political upheaval.

 

Old Master Highlights of the Works on Paper Collection – Jan. 3

This exhibition focuses on the highlights of the Carlos Museum’s Works on Paper collection, presenting prints and drawings from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Featured are great masters from Albert Dürer to Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

 

 

High Museum of Art

1280 Peachtree St., N.E., Atlanta

(404) 733-4400 

www.high.org

Alec Soth: Black Line of Woods – Through Jan. 3 

In the tradition of photographers like Walker Evans, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, Minneapolis-based photographer Alec Soth seeks to expose and elevate ordinary aspects of American life. His poetic images capture the harsh beauty of disenfranchised people and places, underscoring the realities of living in such a vast and varied country.