“Following its tradition of introducing Atlanta to some of the edgier plays around, Essential Theatre opened its annual summer festival with FOOD FOR FISH, a lively take on Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS by rising playwright Adam Szymkowicz … One smart play …dark, droll dialogue … it’s a wild, strange trip, full of black humor, and something to really challenge the mind.” read the entire review James Paulk, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“This play by the brilliant young playwright, Adam Szymkowicz, is one strange work of art … it is compelling, humorous, and I would give it a 9 on the proverbial scale.” Robert Heller,

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Two things have been running through my head like a song, since I’ve been working on this play, ICE GLEN. One is a line from a song that a friend wrote: “We’re all gonna live like people in a book.” The other is from OUR TOWN, when Emily asks the Stage Manager (I’m paraphrasing here) “Do human beings ever realize how beautiful life is, every minute?” and he says, “The poets and the saints, some.”

ICE GLEN is about being truly alive in the place where you belong. About being in that special place, inside and outside yourself (in the woods,

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Jim Crow and The Rhythm Darlings

What do you get when you combine a forties all-girl black jazz band with one Jewish member, and stir it up with a tour through the Jim Crow South? You get a recipe for disaster, but more importantly discovery. It’s 1943…

To read the rest of this article, please click on the link below:

http://www.examiner.com/x-5055-Atlanta-Theater-Examiner~y2009m7d9-Jim-Crow-and-The-Rhythm-Darlings?cid=email-this-article

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The influence of Facebook in marketing the theatre continues to growth indicatinges how social media continues to enhance and re-define the way arts organizations reach out to audiences.

When we reach a fan base of 1,000, Facebook provides a series of advanced tools and analytics that will enhance our ability to reach those interested in theatre. We can easily achieve this by encouraging our friends on to Become a Fan on Facebook and recommend us to their friends. When you access our page you will see a list of options below the logo on the left. One is “Suggest to Friends.” When you click on this link a box with all of your friends’ photos opens.

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JC Reilly, one of the Georgia Poetry Society members who will be participating in a poetry reading at 7pm on Saturday July 25th prior to the 8pm “Ice Glen” performance. JC would like to offer this poem for your consideration. We hope you will come a bit early to hear JC’s poetry and the work of other GPS members.

Fall, Star City by JC Reilly

The blush has crept into the leaves,
as sunshine, sanguine with the months
of growing, cools its fire. The light
that we get now is maizy, saturates

everything with extract of gold,

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Sarah Falkenburg Wallace – Dexter (Food for Fish)
This is the fourth Festival I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in. I have always enjoyed being a part of the festival and have played a voice in the attic, a murderous college student, & a girl who turned into a horse. However, simply being cast as a man has turned into one of the most challenging roles of my acting career. I have enjoyed the process as one of the most truly involved roles I’ve worked to create since Dexter is the complete opposite of me in every way.

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Our sponsors have put together and incredible prize package for our raffle. Please check it out.

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Come support our guest poetry readers as they share a brief selection before selected performances.

• Flora Maria Garcia, Executive Director MACC July 10 8pm
• Jeff Watkins, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Tavern, July 12 7pm
• Bob Farley, Artistic Director, Georgia Ensemble July 20th 8pm
• Georgia Poetry Society July 25th begins at 7pm
• Charles Green, Fulton County Arts Council/Sunrise Bank. July 26th 7pm
• Phillip Depoy, Clayton State, Drama Dept. Chair, July 31 8pm.

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