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1105 Euclid Ave NE / Atlanta, GA 30307 | (404) 523-3141 | http://www.dadsgarage.com Where can you find a healthy dose of adult comedy in a laid back atmosphere? Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, an improv and comedy club, presented its first comedy play, Fun With Science, June 23, 1995. A Theatresports franchise, the original Dad’s Garage ensemble trained with the author of Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre and Impro for Storytellers, Keith Johnstone. Today, Dad’s Garage is a thriving theater with over 300 performers and volunteers, entertaining 30,000 people each year with their theater, public events and festivals. This innovative company brings awareness to the Atlanta community of the creative outlets found in original theatrical works through improvisation. Dad’s creates and encourages artistic, administrative, and technical assemble through this awareness. The work of Dad’s Garage is recognized and supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Atlanta Foundation, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, Doris Duke Charitable Trust, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, and The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. Besides their original scripted shows, Dad’s Garage produces 52 weeks of improv shows each year with traditional and original improv formats. Audiences get 350 performances each year, but no shows on Thanksgiving and Christmas. There is always a fun filled evening every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at 8 and 10:30 pm. Budding improvisers can receive training in Dad’s High School Outreach Program and with on-site, public classes and workshops. For those new to the improv scene, improv comedy is performing theatrical comedy without using a prepared, written script. Everything; dialogue, action, story, and characters are a collaborated effort of the players. Dad’s Garage includes in their performances, ideas from the audience by giving everyone sheets of paper to write out scenarios which the players incorporate into the show. Dad’s Garage is an active part of Atlanta’s arts scene. Run and staffed by volunteers, eager to bring attention to the art of improv comedy, Dad’s has been recognized as Best...

1099 Euclid Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA | (404) 524-7354 | variety-playhouse.com Little Five Points is known as Atlanta’s most eclectic district. The art galleries, shops, restaurants and theaters really keep this neighborhood both alive and colorful. For those who dig live music both by indie and mainstream acts in a tightly knit and cozy place, kind of like a sound check session, then come by the Variety Playhouse along Euclid Avenue. Variety Playhouse is both a theater and a nightclub, but used to be a movie house which explains the narrow aisles and the balcony seating. But it also has tables, chairs and a standing area for those who’d like to experience the show up close. Most of those who have been here enjoyed the concert experience despite the size of the venue. It might be small but it creates the intimacy which allows the audiences to be moved by the performers’ raw and personal performance on stage, which is also inspired by the intimate and relaxing vibe of the venue. Some agree that the venue’s name – Variety Playhouse – truly speaks for what the place represents, variety. Several and various live acts have already graced the stage of the Playhouse, mostly indie acts like The Afghan Wings, Men at Work, Junior Brown, while other indie acts that are scheduled to perform include The New Pornographers, acclaimed artist Dar Williams, Grammy award winning bassist Victor Wooten, the British group Steel Pulse, the eclectic group Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, and the super eccentric funky group Here Come the Mummies, and even mainstream act and Billboard chart topper The Script, to name a few. As you can see, there is also a variety in music genre – from rock, to reflective, reggae, to world music and, funk and dance, Variety Playhouse truly lives up to its name. Variety Playhouse accepts band submissions and the venue is also open for rentals. For those interested to see a show, please keep in mind that smoking...