![]() ![]() NW High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art is ranked among the top 20 art museums in the country. Admission to Atlanta Contemporary is always free. It affords artists the opportunity to create and present site-specific immersive installations. Chute Space is located in the former coal chute. ![]() This literal sliver of a gallery is where regionally based artists create in-site installations utilizing the narrow confines of the walls. These installations act as temporary solo exhibitions. Each mural project remains on view for one year. Measuring 20 feet long and 14 feet high, the wall pushes an artist’s practice through the creation of a site-specific installation. (Photo courtesy Atlanta Contemporary)Īmong highlights of Atlanta Contemporary are: (1) The Atrium Wall. MIDTOWN Atlanta Contemporary Visit here if you love contemporary art. McGregor, who cuts down trees and bakes rabbits into pies, he’s asking a valid question: Are we all accountable for the harm that humans are doing to the planet? What can children do to help? For those answers, they’ll have to keep coming back to the theater.Dashboard’s unique view of the Atlanta art scene has opened up unexpected exhibition spaces, mediums or art and events you won’t find anywhere else. When Peter accuses the people in his burrow of being as dastardly as Mr. Children can be serious and considerate theater-goers, and “Into the Burrow” treats them as such. That Valdez doesn’t shy away from such grim realities of rabbit life is part of what makes this such a sterling play. His suspicion of humans is warranted: As in Potter’s original tale, his father’s been killed and cooked into a pie by Mr. Unzueta is fantastic as Peter Rabbit, filled with apple-cheeked enthusiasm that doesn’t pitch into cloying. Tunison makes great use of his jazzy number, and Mask keeps the energy high and the young audience cheering. Johnson and Delgado are standouts for their physicality, and Gold’s tap-dance number is a delight. They make excellent musicians, however, and the real actors are excellent actors. (A bass player in bunny ears acting like a bunny, it turns out, looks a lot like a bass player in bunny ears acting like a bass player.) A trio of live musicians adds depth and panache to the music, though I was less convinced by the decision to pass them off as Peter Rabbit’s siblings, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail. Individual vocal talents are somewhat uneven, but the cast shines as a chorus, and Unzueta has enough singing chops alone to carry the show. “Into the Burrow” holds its own as a musical, with bright original songs by Christian Albright and Christian Magby, the duo behind Alliance Theatre’s “The Incredible Book Eating Boy,” and music direction and orchestrations by Imani Quiñones. The kids loved them, too - several said afterward that the puppet show was their favorite part. I was thrilled by their weirdness, another dash of sophistication unusual to children’s theater. Designed by Raymond Carr and inspired by traditional Chinese and Javan shadow puppetry, these are not sock puppets flopping behind a bedsheet but rather sharply stylized silhouettes verging on the uncanny. It’s a clever use of the space and gorgeously executed. McGregor, the action shifts to a shadow puppet show visible on several illuminated screens. When the animal friends leave the burrow on a daring escapade to steal produce from Mr. The story takes place in Peter Rabbit’s burrow, an immersive, in-the-round set, beautifully designed by Kat Conley. Best of all is Ptolemy Tortoise’s shell, which was very handsome and put to great use by Johnson. They are costumed magnificently by Garry Lennon, though the jaunty Victorianism of Potter’s drawings doesn’t quite come through. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise (Jontavious Johnson), Benjamin Bunny (Kylie Gray Mask) and Squirrel Nutkin (Shelli Delgado). Jeremy Fisher (Wesley Tunison), along with Mr. Playwright Mark Valdez, who also directs, smartly weaves in some of Potter’s other characters, including the aforementioned Mrs. ![]() “Into the Burrow” takes “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” for its central plot, with Juan Carlos Unzueta in the starring role. ![]()
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