For the last time in 2012, a group of dedicated puppeteers and puppet fans gathered together last Saturday for a Puppet Slam at Fabrefaction Theatre Company in Atlanta. And not just a puppet slam–it was the Holiday...

For the fourteenth time, Beau Brown hosted The Puckin’ Fuppet Show. Say it slowly, or you will get yourself in trouble. On November 17th, at 11PM, the show opened its unique blend of artistry and comedy to...

  Dad’s Garage’s new play, The Wrath of Con, uses a series of related sketches to meander through the lifecycle of a fan-run convention. For those who don’t know what a fan-run convention is, think “comic book...

My father asked my mother to marry him during a traffic jam in the Holland Tunnel, and they were married on Easter Morning, 1942. My father was on a Weekend Pass from Fort Indiantown Gap in the...

  In the 1960s, there were no holiday specials.  There was L.B.J., a war in Southeast Asia, riots in the streets of Detroit and Newark, campus protests, and Christmas specials.  America had new color TVs using a...

  The Cobb Energy Center welcomed the Big League Productions production of “My Fair Lady” with a packed house and thunderous applause.  Based on the George Bernard Shaw play “Pigmalion,” this Lerner and Loewe musical is arguably...

 A Welcomed Tradition Returns for 30th Anniversary Season Last night Marietta’s Acclaimed Theatre in the Square continued to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Season with another play that returns the theater to its roots, with a revival of...

  The Artifice Club of Atlanta will presenting another one of their fantastic Steampunk events this weekend when The Second Annual Mechanical Masquerade fills Blue Mark Studios with a supernatural night of “Paranormal Fantasy” on Saturday November...

Steals Your Heart with Laughter There is a rule in life that comes directly out of the kitchen: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth. You know the expression, right? It’s a warning about committees doing the work...

Reporters for The Backstage Beat recently had the pleasure of attending a performance of The Ghastly Dreadfuls, and were astounded by the beautiful mixture of live music and dance combined with incredible elaborate puppet shorts.  From the...