Actor’s Express has announced a slate of plays and musicals for its 39th season, including a world premiere by an Atlanta playwright and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Season 39 will open in March 2027 with Tectonic Theatre Project’s multimedia play Here There Are Blueberries, conceived by Moisés Kaufman and written by Kaufman and Amanda Gronich.
This Pulitzer Prize finalist follows curators at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as an album of World War II-era photographs is mysteriously delivered to them, and the discovery they make about the truth behind these photographs.
Here There Are Blueberries will be directed by Amber McGinnis, who most recently directed The Revolutionists at Theatrical Outfit.
In May, AE continues with Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along, directed by AE Artistic Director Freddie Ashley. Premiering on Broadway in 1981, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Sondheim’s most celebrated songs, including “Not A Day Goes By,” “Good Thing Going,” and “Our Time.”
The season continues in July with playwright Jonathan Norton’s Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack directed by AE Associate Artistic Director Amanda Washington. The play follows the true story of Malcom X and Redd Foxx when they worked together as young men in the kitchen of a Harlem restaurant.
In November, AE will produce the world premiere of Game Night by Atlanta’s own Suehyla El-Attar Young. The comedy follows a group of friends during an ordinary game night that quickly devolves into something far more sinister when a second-hand board game from Goodwill proves to be possessed.
AE will close its 39th season in January 2028 with Tennessee Williams’ monumental Pulitzer Prize winner, A Streetcar Named Desire, celebrating the play’s 80th anniversary. AE’s Artistic Director Freddie Ashley said, “A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. As we have done with other classics like The Crucible, we’ll bring an epic Classic-with-a-capital-c up close and personal to audiences with an intimacy and accessibility that is the true mark of AE at our very best.”
Actor’s Express’ 39th season will also include a special sixth show that will be announced at a later date.
“Season 39 is one of the biggest and boldest seasons we’ve ever embarked on at Actor’s Express,” Ashley said. “The play selections run the gamut from new to classic, from heart wrenching to heart warming, and from hilarious to dramatic. There are surprises to be found in every one of the plays and musicals we have curated, and we believe it will become one of the most exciting seasons in AE history.”
Season subscription packages are now on sale and can be purchased online at actors-express.com or by calling 404-607-SHOW.
