The Alliance Theatre Company is a prestigious theatre company in Atlanta, Georgia based at the Alliance Theatre, a part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center. The company, originally the Atlanta Municiple Theatre, staged its first production at the Alliance in 1968. In 1970, the company changed its name to Alliance Theatre Company. Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL Location in Fulton and DeKalb counties in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

Within a decade, the company had grown tremedously and staged the world premier of Tennessee Williams' Tiger Tail and was casting such well-known actors as Richard Dreyfuss, Morgan Freeman and Jane Alexander in productions. With the arrival of Kenny Leon as artistic director in 1988, the company began a period of diversification and growth. Leon's worked helped to attract a larger African-American audience by staging a more diverse selection of productions. During Leon's tenure, the company staged premiers of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Elton John and Tim Rice's musical Aida which went on to Broadway and won the Tony award for Best Musical. Leon resigned from the company in 2000 and Susan V. Booth has taken his place as artistic director. Recently the company has produced the Broadway bound production of the musical The Color Purple. Tennessee Williams, courtesy of Masters of Photography [2] Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an Oscar-winning American actor. ... Freeman in Batman Begins, 2005 Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and film director. ... Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress. ... The artistic director of a theatre is responsible for choosing the material staged in a season, and the hiring of creative/production personnel (such as directors), as well as other theatre management tasks. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to sub-saharan Africa. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an Jewish-American playwright best known for the play and screenplay of Driving Miss Daisy. ... The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a two act play written by Alfred Uhry. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John, CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Sir Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English lyricist for musical theatre, a radio presenter, television gameshow panelist and an author. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... // Introduction This article is about the marketing term, AIDA. For other uses of the term, see Aida (disambiguation). ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

External links

• Alliance Theatre Website