Obie Outlaw
Atlanta Theatre Reviews
I've been a Contributing Writer for BroadwayWorld Atlanta since 2019. Here's a curated collection of my reviews.
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Apr. 27, 2023. With a thought-provoking script, PRAYER is a gorgeous, expertly crafted, and relevant story.
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Apr. 6, 2023. Welcome, to the newly renovated Theatrical Outfit. If you're hoping to see something real, honest, and true then you should see TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS at Theatrical Outfit.
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Mar. 24, 2023. I can think of 1, 2, 5 - no, 3! - different reasons you should see SPAMALOT. Full of lewd jokes, flashy numbers, and a multitude of marvelous voices, it is a riotously good time.
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Mar. 16, 2023. Starring teen genius Jasmine Starr-Kidd, WONDROUS REALITIES is a story of change. With unbeatable tech, fun performances, and a frivolous story, it is a swift and lighthearted experience.
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Mar. 08, 2023. Ahhh, that fresh new play smell... and it smells of pine? With strong performances, stellar tech, and a startling poignant story, PURE AGAIN feels like a much-needed baptism in healing.
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Feb. 11, 2023. MUFARO'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS: AN AFRICAN TALE is a new musical spearheaded by Producing Artistic Director Rachel May that features African instruments and rhythms in the style of traditional musical theatre
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Apr. 11, 2022. Dark black curtains close in around a tight stage - the audience sits together in one section facing three separate beds neatly spaced out and decorated thoughtfully to indicate three separate playing spaces.
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Apr. 04, 2022. Imagine, if you will, a small theatre tucked away in midtown Atlanta. You enter through doors and metal grates to see a parade of pride flags swinging proudly up and down a long hallway.
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Mar. 22, 2022. Featuring choreography by original cast member and Tony Award-Recipient Baayork Lee, the show feels overwhelmingly nostalgic, as if you had been transported back to 1975.
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Feb. 12, 2022. In New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and throughout the whole country you'll find the same insidious issue that plagues award-winning playwright Eliana Pipes' new play DREAM HOU$E - gentrification.
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Dec. 06, 2021. I have never been so moved by A CHRISTMAS CAROL. I genuinely cried several times during the show because of how beautiful it is.
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Nov. 15, 2021. Welcome, ladies and gentlefolk, to the modern-day revival of Southern Gothic. HOMETOWN BOY at Actor's Express is a beautifully grotesque show about how secrets are like leeches you can't remove until you've faced them.
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Oct. 13, 2021. The show is a raucous delight full of stellar vocal performances, fantastic character choices, and some killer looks.
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Oct. 02, 2021. In a true return to original form, AN ILIAD at Theatrical Outfit is an intimate performance of the story of Hector and Achilles as told by one person - The Poet himself.
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Sep. 28, 2021. DARLIN' CORY at the Alliance Theatre is a dark folk tale set in the 1930s Appalachian hills, far away from any sort of sin that could tear through their tight-knit community from the inside out.
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Sept. 09, 2021. It felt like a dream to be sitting in the Fox Theatre again as if I was living out some wild fantasy in my head as I settled in under the night-sky blue ceiling to watch HAMILTON.
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WORKING at the Alliance Theatre Tells ATL's Story
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Apr. 16, 2021. If you're willing to sit in an outdoor tent on a rainy Saturday morning like I am, then you're in for a lot of sunshine at Alliance Theatre's BEAUTIFUL BLACKBIRD LIVE.
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Nov. 24, 2020. Zoom Theatre is weird; there's no getting around that. But weird doesn't have to mean bad or awkward. It can also mean brilliantly innovative and wonderfully fun.
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Aug. 16, 2020. The Pumphouse Player's production of Laura King's Some Mirth and a Little Matter is an excellent example of this resilience and commitment to the art.
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Mar. 16, 2020. It is a special thing to see a production of your favorite show and it's even more special if that production is a great one.
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Mar. 15, 2020. THE CATASTROPHIST is a deeply intimate conversation with wildly experienced virologist Dr. Nathan Wolfe (playwright Lauren Gunderson's actual, real-life husband).
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Jan. 24, 2020. Actor's Express has created a fundamentally visceral production of the Tony-award-winning musical that's impossible to look away from and a thrill from start to finish.
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Jan. 11, 2020. The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse is greeting 2020 with the perfect play for a new decade of doubled-up dates: TWELFTH NIGHT.
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Nov. 25, 2019. This year's performance of A Christmas Carol at the Alliance Theatre is being performed on their new Coca-Cola stage for the very first time.
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Nov. 11, 2019. The Atlanta Shakespeare Company met the time change and colder weather with their production of King Lear, one of Shakespeare's most notable tragedies.
