Events for February 11, 2025 - January 23, 2021

Coping in Corporate Cultures: Community Conversation

Southwest Arts Center 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

Navigating through hierarchal structures, bursting through glass ceilings, and dodging micro-aggressions. This conversation will focus on ways to thrive and have open conversations without fear.

   
Free

FREE Play Reading: “Wrong River” by Josh Wilder

Southwest Arts Center 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

In advance of our production of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, we will produce a staged reading of Josh Wilder’s Wrong River. Join us as we explore how the decisions of governments and corporations can negatively affect the masses and create moments of crisis.

   
Free

Skeleton Crew

Southwest Arts Center 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

Power dynamics shift as their manager Reggie is torn between doing right by his work family, and by the red tape in his office. Powerful and tense, Skeleton Crew is the third of Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit cycle trilogy.

Dominique Morisseau | Writer
Jamil Jude | Director

   
$20 – $50

August Wilson Monologue Competition Regional Finals

595 North 595 North Avenue NW, Atlanta, GA, United States

Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company is proud to present the Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition. This competition is open to Greater Metro Atlanta area high school students, grades 9-12.

FREE

True Colors Applauds Awards Brunch

The Ovation Circle Giving Society champions the mission of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to celebrate black storytelling and embrace bold diverse theatre experiences for all. Join us as we celebrate our Ovation Circle donors and recognize individuals and organizations that positively impact the arts community.

Ovation Circle Exclusive Event

Community Conversation: Preserving the Legacy of African American Men

Southwest Arts Center 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

As each generation takes the baton from the previous generation, they hope for ever-increasing achievements. We will discuss how to honor and preserve the accomplishments of past generations while carving out new territory for 21st Century African American men.

   
Free

FREE Play Reading: “Bread” by Regina Taylor

Southwest Arts Center 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

photo courtesy of WaterTower Theatre. Bread is nourishment. Bread is legacy. Bread is life itself. And bread is money. It is late 2016; a time of change. James and Ruth are a middle-class couple from Oak Cliff, a historic south Dallas neighborhood on the verge of gentrification. They plan a bright future for their teenage son and his soon-to-be-born brother. But when James’ brother Jeb returns home, buried family tensions resurface and the past casts a troubling shadow across an uncertain future.

   
FREE

East Texas Hot Links

Southwest Arts Center 915 New Hope Road, Atlanta, GA, United States

Greed, corruption and Jim Crow intertwine in the tense thriller East Texas Hot Links. It’s 1955 in the piney woods of East Texas, and Charlesetta’s Top O’ the Hill Cafe is one of the only public places where black locals can gather for comfort, solace and companionship. When danger comes knocking, the unthinkable happens, with dire consequences for all involved.

   
$20 – $50
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