THEATER
Blood Wedding is on stage at the Grace Munroe Theater on the Emory campus through Sunday. Directed by Lee Osorio and with a cast of 16 female and nonbinary Emory University students and professional actors, it is “a visually dazzling, inventively staged production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s tragedy,” according to ArtsATL writer Benjamin Carr’s review. Tickets are $20.
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Horizon Theatre closes out its season this month with Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, a musical adaptation of 70 pages of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Featuring music and lyrics by Dave Malloy and direction from Heidi McKerley, Comet earned rave reviews from ArtsATL writer Alexis Hauk for its “crowded constellation of Atlanta musical theater talent who invite you in to bask in the glow of their artistry all the way through their final bow.” Tickets are $40, and seating is almost sold out.
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FILM+TV
A new documentary, Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, will air on Prime Video starting this Friday, featuring never-published material about Perry’s childhood in New Orleans and his relationship with his mother, Maxine. Read ArtsATL writer Rachel Garbus’ feature to find out how the film’s co-directors, Armani Ortiz and Gelila Bekele, assembled the many parts of the media mogul’s story.
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MUSIC
Singer/songwriter Paul Thorn has lived a well-traveled life, from working in a furniture factory to being a professional boxer who fought the legendary Roberto Duran on national television to a music career that has led to appearances with Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler and Sting. Thorn was discovered when he performed at a singer-songwriters night at a pizza shop in Tupelo, Mississippi, which led to his first album. Thorn’s latest release is Never Too Late To Call, recorded at the Sam Phillips studio in Memphis. Thorn performs Friday at 7 p.m. at Eddie’s Attic. Tickets start at $67.30.
Regina Bradley, a Harvard University Hip-Hop Alumni Fellow and Kennesaw State University assistant professor, will discuss how Outkast transformed music using futurism at MODA on November 16 at 10 a.m. Bradley, the author of Chronicling Stankonia, will host a combination lecture and listening party to discuss Outkast and also play songs from the group’s discography. Tickets are $15.
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BOOKS
Julia Child once remarked: “It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.” Mark Kurlansky, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cod’s Tale and The Story of Salt, digs into the many layers of the root vegetable in his latest book The Core of an Onion. Kurlansky will be in town November 16 for one of the most unique book events we’ve heard of: a three-course dinner with the onion as the star at Holeman & Finch Public House. A Cappella Books will be on hand with copies of Kurlansky’s book. Tickets are $200.
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ART+DESIGN
MINT gallery will host a talk with Nicole Kang Ahn, whose show Worth the Weight opened November 4 and runs through December 2. According to the gallery, Ahn’s works “evoke the tension and the beauty of her bicultural identity by honoring her Korean heritage in the American South and intertwining those experiences with memories of her late mother.” Saturday at 2 p.m. Free.
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Gallery 72 is featuring Jean Patrick Icart-Pierre’s The Load That We Wear, a solo exhibition about the interplay between ancestral trauma and the enduring beauty of identity and expression. Born in Haiti, Icart-Pierre is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the Black experience and who creates, he says, “sculptural works that combine elements of text, paint and found objects to initiate a commentary on relevant issues including race, politics and consumerism.” His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Through January 31.
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The sixth installment of the MOCA GA biennial exhibition Gathered VI: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists opens on Saturday. Jurors Betsy Cain, Joseph Peragine and Bojana Ginn present the breadth and depth of Georgia’s visual arts talent. The show features work by 46 artists chosen from 324 artists who submitted more than 900 artworks and includes sculpture, painting, photography, textile and new media. Opening reception Saturday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $5. Though January 13.
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DANCE
Every year, the Emory Dance Company, comprised primarily of dance students, presents a concert at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Dance Studio. This weekend, the company will perform new work by 2023-24 Emory Arts Fellow Annalee Traylor; guest artist Celeste Miller, whose work has been seen in New York City’s downtown dance scene, Atlanta’s Symphony Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., among many other national venues; and Emory dance faculty members Gregory Catellier, George Staib and Lori Teague. Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets $18. Students $10.
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The contemporary dance company Kit Modus is known for bringing in guest choreographers to create new works for the company. At its upcoming concert at Windmill Arts Center, the ensemble will premiere Cuban-born choreographer Marco Palomino’s The Portal is Always Open. ArtsATL writer Robin Wharton spoke with Palomino and the dancers about the new piece. Also on the program are Mark Caserta’s PRETTYEND, created for the company in 2019, and a new work by Artistic Director Jillian Mitchell. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $15.
