Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre Company Needs Your Help!

Atlanta’s famous True Colors Theatre company, led by Tony-nominated director Kenny Leon, needs some assistance. Here’s a message the theater company is sending out:

True Colors has 9 days left!

If we can raise $50,000 from our patrons by June 30th, our board has committed to raise $100,000 to end our season DEBT FREE!

Please consider making a donation today if you have enjoyed our exceptional theatre in the past, so that True Colors can continue to bring Kenny Leon’s vision to Atlanta.

No amount is too small (or too big).

To make your donation, please contact True Colors at 404.588.0308 or Online HERE.

So far, the non-profit company has raised about $15,000, leaving about $35,000 to go. To do our part, Ticket Alternative is paying all processing fees on your donations, so every penny you donate will go directly to True Colors.

True Colors is a great local theater company that consistently puts out amazing plays with world-class talent. We hope you’ll help them out and aid in continuing a great Atlanta institution.

Kenny Leon and Jasmine Guy to Star in “Fool For Love”

Kenny Leon ‘s True Colors Theatre Company is bringing the haunting tale of obsession Fool For Love to the Balzer Theatre in Atlanta, Ga. Tony winner Leon will co-star with star of stage and screen Jasmine Guy. Guy most recently directed The Colored Museum, which ends its run at the Porter Sanford Performing III Performing Arts Center this Sunday, April 17.

Todd Kreidler will direct the Sam Shepard drama about an explosive love affair. The story centers around two people who can’t live with or without each other. Throughout the drama they hit many bumps in the road to understanding their relationship. Funny moments lighten the mood of this otherwise intensely serious drama. Come out see another fantastic production by Kenny Leon and True Colors Performance Theatre.

Fool for Love will play at The Balzer Theatre at Herren’s, located at 84 Luckie Street NW in Atlanta, Ga.

IT IS RUNNING ON A LIMITED FOUR WEEK ENGAGEMENT!
Previews on May 10, 11, 12, 2011 at 8 p.m.
The official shows starts May 13 and runs until June 11.

Kenny Leon’s True Colors Presents “The Colored Museum”

If you follow the theater scene in Atlanta, then you know Kenny Leon. At the direction of Jasmine Guy, his True Colors Theatre Company will put on the Georgie C. Wolfe play The Colored Museum. The Colored Museum is a satirical exhibit of stories illuminating race relations in America, a vaudevillian mosaic that spans over 200 years of the African American experience and celebrates African American culture, mocks stereotypes and takes a closer look at what it means to be black in America. The play will be showing form March 28 through April 17 at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center located at 3181 Rainbow Drive, Decatur, Ga. 30034.

There will be three preview shows next week, March 22-24. Tickets to the shows on March 22 and 23 are only $18!

To learn more about the True Colors Theatre Company visit their website http://www.truecolorstheatre.org/

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Jasmine Guy Joins True Colors Theatre Company as a Full Time Member

We’re happy to hear that the wonderfully talented Jasmine Guy has joined Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre Company as a full-time member. Broadway World reports:

Guy will fill both an artistic and an administrative role with True Colors, working to further True Colors mission on both the local and national fronts. During True Colors 2010-2011 season, Guy will be featured in the Regional Premiere of Nathan Louis Jackson‘s comic drama, Broke-ology directed by Kenny Leon; she will direct George C. Wolfe‘s The Colored Museum and will star in Sam Shepard‘s haunting story of obsession Fool for Love.

Kenny Leon Post-Show Discussion at “Jitney” – June 16

True Colors Theatre Company’s director Kenny Leon will be participating in a post-show discussion after the Wednesday, June 16 performance of August Wilson’s Jitney at the Alliance Theatre. This will be Leon’s first talk after the Tony Awards, for which Leon has been nominated for Best Director of a Stage Play for Fences. Tickets are still available for this show at Ticket Alternative.

Check Out: Kenny Leon Interviewed in Atlanta Magazine

Kenny Leon, who’s True Colors Theatre Company recently put on an amazing production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, was interviewing in Atlanta Magazine about his impending move to Broadway:

Hometown guy Leon travels to New York to direct Washington in this month’s Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences. He says the two-time Oscar winner — who will play burned-out Pittsburgh trash collector and former Negro League hitter Troy Maxson — will get no special treatment when rehearsals start in March. “I’ve been doing that for years,” says Leon of the push-up ritual, as he digs into a plate of stir-fried chicken and rice at Saigon Basil, next to the theater’s makeshift rehearsal studio on Piedmont Avenue. “I did that with Phylicia Rashad when we did Gem of the Ocean on Broadway.”

Read more HERE. True Colors is now producing August Wilson’s Jitney at Southwest Arts Center during the whole month of May.

“August Wilson’s Jitney” at True Colors Theatre May 5-30; Alliance Theater June 5-27

Back in the ’70s, regular cabs didn’t travel to Pittsburgh’s urban Hill District. Jitney (set in 1977) follows the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneys — unofficial, unlicensed cabbies. The gypsy station is in turmoil when the boss’ son returns after 20 years in prison; drama continues when the station faces possible demolition due to urban redevelopment. A slice of August Wilson’s life: the script, the stories, the way the characters interact with each other – it’s truly Wilson at his purist.

Directed by Derrick Sanders, Jitney will run from May 5 – 30 at True Colors Theatre at the Southwest Arts Center and from June 5 – 27 at Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff Arts Center.

True Colors Hosts Q&A with Kenny Leon after Saturday Performance of Our Town in Atlanta

True Colors Theatre Company have added a Q&A session with their artistic director Kenny Leon after the Saturday, March 6 evening performance of Our Town at Southwest Arts Center. This is Leon’s last appearance in Atlanta before he heads to Broadway to direct Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in Fences. It also comes right after his being named named the recipient of the 2010 Julie Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing. Atlanta Daily World has the details:

According to the Drama League, Leon was the unanimous choice to receive this year’s honor. The Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing can be won only once in a lifetime and is given to an individual whose work over time sets new standards of directing excellence within American theater.

Read more from that article here. The Q&A will only be open to people who have tickets to that night’s show. Tickets are still on sale at Ticket Alternative.