“Moo Deng vs The Pesto: A Musical” will probably be on stage on the Atlanta Fringe Pageant. (Photograph supplied by White Mouse Productions)
Every week, ArtsATL curates a number of probably the most thrilling arts and tradition occasions taking place in Atlanta this weekend, highlighting 9 must-see experiences.
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Thursday
With greater than 60 artist teams, new and returning venues throughout the metro and the return of the Audio Fringe sequence, Atlanta Fringe Pageant 2025 provides two full weeks of high-energy performances that promise to stay as much as the Fringe mission: offering a platform for adventurous artists and entertaining Atlanta with numerous voices and distinctive views. The fest will proceed via June 8. Try our don’t-miss occasions on the Fringe Fest.
Synth-pop pioneers OMD (aka Orchestral Manoeuvres within the Darkish) will play Buckhead Theatre on Could 29. The set checklist for earlier stops on the tour reaches again to the band’s 1980 self-titled debut and consists of a few of its best-known songs (“So In Love” and “If You Go away”), together with tracks from their most up-to-date album, Bauhaus Staircase.
The Huge Display screen: Traditional Psychedelia, Animation & Avant-Garde
Movie Love returns to the Plaza for a program of groundbreaking avant-garde shorts seldom seen on theater screens. The occasion options 10 brief works, together with hand-painted initiatives, a 115-year-old scientific movie and one Cinemascope screening. It’s the primary of 4 Movie Love packages, held on the final Thursday of the month. Catch it at 7:30 p.m. on Could 29 on the Plaza Theatre.
Friday
North Georgia-born sisters Rebecca Lovell and Megan Lovell, aka Larkin Poe, will carry out at The Jap at 8 p.m. on Could 30. Opening the present is fellow Georgian Katie Pruitt. What to anticipate? Nicely, Pruitt tells ArtsATL that she’s bringing her full band and “we’re going to rock it out as a result of that’s precisely what Larkin Poe does each night time.”
Saturday
Atlanta Up to date Music Collective
The adventurous and uncompromising ensemble performs Deep Listening Scavenger Hunt (3 p.m. to five p.m. Could 31) and Mid-Century Minimalist Classics (7 p.m. to eight p.m. Could 31) at South River Artwork Studios. The scavenger hunt will include percussion-centric items spaced all through the power in what ATLCMC Creative Director Bryan Wysocki describes as a “select your personal journey live performance,” offering a soundtrack for a day of shopping via the South River Artwork Studios’ retailers and galleries. Mid-Century Minimalist Classics, a seated live performance, will probably be divided between the works of Julius Eastman and Frederic Rzewski, each lesser-known modernist composers.
Voice of Notice: Broadway Sideways
Voices of Notice, the mixed abilities of the Atlanta Homosexual Males’s Refrain and the Atlanta Ladies’s Refrain, presents Broadway Sideways, which re-imagines Broadway classics. This system was impressed by New York’s annual “Broadway Backwards” and New York Metropolis Off-Broadway Theater Firm’s latest addition of “Miscast,” which discovered Broadway stars taking up roles through which they might not historically be forged. There are two performances on Could 31, at 2 p.m. and seven p.m., at Out Entrance Theatre.
The Outdated Fourth Ward Arts Pageant
Simply off the Atlanta Beltline, this annual Pageant brings nice arts and crafts, a youngsters’s play space, native meals and beverage concessions, stay acoustic leisure on the garden and extra to one of many metropolis’s most lovely parks. The Pageant begins at 10 a.m. Could 31 and 11 a.m. June 1.
This free one-day, multi-act competition in Avondale Estates is harking back to the previous Corndogarama Pageant in East Atlanta, with a various slate of music and leisure led by girlpuppy and Puddles Pity Social gathering. Junkyard artwork may even determine prominently, together with previous automobiles as signage and the utilization of a giant, empty warehouse area for an outsider artwork present. The all-day celebration begins at 11 a.m. and continues till 9 p.m. on Could 31 and is centered round Olive, Washington, Pine and Franklin streets in Avondale Estates.
Danny Dudeck, identified professionally as Mudcat, will have fun the discharge of a brand new album, Rock & Roll Redemption, at Avondale Towne Cinema in downtown Avondale Estates at 7 p.m. on Could 31. Dudeck’s contributions to Atlanta’s fashionable blues scene are legendary and embrace ties to such icons as Frank Edwards, Blind Willie McTell, Cootie Stark, Eddie Tigner, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Jontavious Willis and numerous others.
Extra issues to do that weekend and past
Pianist Kirill Gerstein returns to the Symphony Corridor to play Ravel’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for An American in Paris at 8 p.m. on Could 29 and Could 31. Visitor conductor Stéphane Denève retains the French theme going with Ibert’s Escales, Milhaud’s The Creation of the World and Gershwin’s An American in Paris … Groovin’ on the Sq. will get your weekend began on the Plaza at Colony Sq. (14th and Peachtree streets) on the final Friday of the month via October. On Could 30, the Kayla Taylor Band will present the leisure. Exhibits happen from 6 p.m. to eight p.m. … Take pleasure in some California vibes as Canyonland, a brilliant group of Atlanta musicians fashioned in October 2021, explores the music that originated in Laurel Canyon. They’re up subsequent within the Glover Park Live performance Collection on the Marietta Sq. at 8 p.m. on Could 30 … The Blanket Live performance Collection in Smyrna continues with Sure, Ma’am, a collaborative challenge that brings collectively the estimable abilities of longtime Georgia musicians Diane Durrett, Caroline Aiken, Liz Melendez and Donna Hopkins on the Reed Home (3080 Atlanta Street SE) at 6:30 p.m. on Could 31 … Hudgens Household Day will have fun the sculptures of German-born Atlanta artist Steffen Thomas (1906-1990) at The Hudgens Heart for Artwork & Studying in Duluth, starting at midday Could 31. Thomas created many public monuments, amongst them the statue of Gov. Eugene Talmadge that adorns the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol … College of Georgia Senior Lecturer David Lowery, also called a singer-songwriter and frontman for the bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, will have fun the discharge of his new album, Fathers, Sons and Brothers, with a present at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur at 5 p.m. on June 1 … Trying forward, subsequent week marks the opening of the extremely anticipated Younger John Lewis, Theatrical Outfit’s world premiere concerning the early years of politician, Civil Rights chief and Atlantan John Lewis. The present was written by hip-hop and spoken phrase playwright Psalmayene 24, with all authentic music composed by Atlanta composer Eugene H. Russell IV. It debuts on June 4 and runs via June 29.
