GOING OUT

Under the Alliance’s tent

The Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta, is offering a series of plays and concerts in its new “Under The Tent” series. Works by both the Alliance’s company and guest artists will be performed live in a tent installed next to the theater’s home, the Woodruff Arts Center. The Alliance says it will offer socially distanced, open-air performances that follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, provide contactless entry and require use of face masks. Productions also will be recorded and streamed on demand through Alliance Theatre Anywhere.

Planned productions include:

April-June 6. “Working: A Musical,” based on the book by Studs Terkel and featuring songs by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Rodgers and Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor.

April 7-8. “An Atlanta Jazz Revival” with guest artist Tyrone Jackson & Friends.” Jackson will bring his favorite musicians and singers to perform jazz, blues, and ballads.

April 8-18. “Beautiful Blackbird Live!,” billed as a family-friendly concert, offers original music by Eugene H. Russell IV and inspired by Ashley Bryan’s children’s book “Beautiful Blackbird.”

April 10. “Soaring High,” in which guest artist Sister Omelika shares her journey as an artist is told through dance, spoken word and songs accompanied by traditional African drumming.

April 15-17. “Hamlet.” Guest artist The TINY Theater Company presents an adaption of “Hamlet” that features elements of Black culture and music to reimagine the story of the young prince whose father’s death has uprooted the castle.

For more: www.alliancetheatre.org

Atlanta Opera brings back its tent

The Atlanta Opera is bringing back its tent for more performances. The tent will be set up at the Cobb Energy Centre. The company is presenting world premiere productions of new adaptations of two iconic operas, Bizet’s “Carmen” and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.”

Tomer Zvulun, the company’s general and artistic director, reimagined the works as “opera for starved societies” and reworked them to accommodate the needs of the current season. For instance, the production of the “Threepenny Opera” includes puppets.

“Audiences are smaller, run-times are shorter and grand operas must be pared down to focus on the essentials. We’re living in a lean, threepenny world right now, so it’s appropriate that we’re paying homage to Kurt Weill and producing threepenny operas that accommodate our present times,” Zvulun said.

“The Threepenny Carmen,” is scheduled to be performed April 15 through May 8.

“The Threepenny Opera” is scheduled to be performed April 22 through May 9.

Tickets to the shows are sold only in “pods” of two or four people who will be seated together. Tickets for two-person pods cost $89 to $219. Tickets for pods of up to four people cost $149 to $399. Masks are required.

For more: atlantaopera.org

For the birds

April 17-May 16. Georgia Bird Fest 2021 returns with guided field trips to birding hotspots, workshops, webinars and speakers. Georgia Audubon calls it Georgia’s largest bird and nature festival. Scott Weidensaul, author of more than a dozen books on natural history, gives the opening keynote on April 18. Registration is required by event and costs vary by event. An all-access pass to webinars planned during the event is available for $40.

For more: /www.georgiaaudubon.org/birdfestevents.html