Tickets are on sale today for productions in the Alliance Theatre's 2016-2017 season, the last season to be held in its old home.
The season will boast seven world premieres, including “The Prom,” from the team that has earned 15 Tony nominations with “The Book of Mormon,” “Elf,” “The Drowsy Chaperone,” “The Wedding Singer,” and “Aladdin.”
For a limited time tickets to "The Prom" are buy one, get one free, for select performances with promo code PROMBOGO. For more information, visit www.alliancetheatre.org/theprom.
Other shows that will be part of the new season are: “Moby Dick” (Oct. 12 – 30), “Troubador” (by Janece Shaffer, Jan. 18-Feb. 12, 2017), “The Temple bombing,” (based on the book by Melissa Fay Greene, Feb. 22-March 12, 2017) and “The Magic Negro and Other Blackity Blackness, As Told By An African-American Man, Who Also Happens To Be Black,” a one-man show featuring Dad’s Garage Theatre’s Mark Kendall (March 24-April 15, 2017).
After the 2016-2017 season, the Alliance will transform its old facility in the Woodruff Arts Center, a stage that hasn't been updated since it was built in 1968.
Crews will strip the theater to its foundation and create a new performance space, with better sight lines, and closer proximity for audience members. “We’re tearing it down to the floor, out to the walls and up past the ceiling,” said Alliance artistic director Susan V. Booth.
During the construction process the theater company will travel around Atlanta, putting on shows in a dozen different locales. After a peripatetic 2017-2018 season, the Alliance will return to the Woodruff in time for it’s 50th anniversary.
Two of the shows in the 2016-2017 season are based on children's book exhibits at the High Museum, including "Pancakes, Pancakes!" which celebrates the illustrator/author Eric Carle. It opened May 31 and runs through July 10. the other is "Play the Play with Cat the Cat," inspired by author Mo Willems, which premiered last year and will have a return engagement Jan. 10-Feb. 19, 2017.
Season tickets went on sale in the spring. Single tickets are now available for every show in the season, which includes five musicals, five productions by Atlanta playwrights, and productions for youth and families.
For more information: alliancetheatre.org/
