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Metro Atlanta Chamber CEO Katie Kirkpatrick thankful for her 'relentless' team - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Nov 26, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

Katie Kirkpatrick is president and CEO at Metro Atlanta Chamber. This submission is part of Atlanta Gives Thanks 2024, in which local business and civic leaders told Atlanta Business Chronicle why they're thankful in 2024. Beyond the perpetual gratitude I feel for my family, this year I am thankful for the people I work alongside everyday — the team at the Metro Atlanta Chamber. We start with strong support and direction from our board, made up of some of the world’s most impactful company leaders.
Review: THE FLEA, The Yard Theatre

Oct 23, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

Now this is how you do historical theatre. Eccentrically re-imagined yet alarmingly real, James Fritz’s The Flea is masterfully made. The show is a quirky retelling of a forgotten piece of queer British history. In Victorian London, a flea bites a rat, and a rat spooks a horse, and the horse kicks a man in the head, killing him.
Edinburgh Fringe theatre reviews: I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

Aug 9, 2024 | scotsman.com | Katie Kirkpatrick |Suzanne M O’Brien |Fiona Shepherd |Sally Stott

Our latest round-up of Fringe theatre reviews includes an explosive pastiche of sinister pyramid schemes, a moving character journey set against a tragic backdrop, and an absorbing study of traumaI Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life ★★★★Pleasance Dome (Venue 23) until 26 AugustShe thinks she’s a queen and, dressed as Elsa from Frozen, she’s literally on fire. This is what happens when fast-talking, human stick of dynamite Belles gets involved in a pyramid scheme of Princess Parties.
Review: CABLE STREET, Southwark Playhouse

Feb 27, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

To describe Cable Street as been highly anticipated would be a gross understatement: it’s basically unheard of for a new, Off West End musical to completely sell out its run before a single review has been published. Nevertheless, this little show that could is absolutely deserving of its success, and seems to be destined for great things. Musical theatre loves a good historical event.
Review: THE BEAUTIFUL FUTURE IS COMING, Jermyn Street Theatre

Feb 1, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

When we think about the climate crisis, we tend to think about floods, fires, blazing heat and freak storms. Flora Wilson Brown’s The Beautiful Future is Coming puts the people back into the picture, delving deep into the human experience in a story that spans centuries. The Beautiful Future is Coming is a play that’s at once expansive and intimate.
Review: THIS MUCH I KNOW, Hampstead Theatre

Dec 20, 2023 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

I’ve often described the kind of work the Hampstead Downstairs produces as ‘academic’ - This Much I Know takes this a step further by transforming the stage into a lecture theatre. Framed through a college lecture, Eureka Day playwright Jonathan Spector’s play spans multiple continents and multiple centuries in search of an answer to its central question: are we responsible for the things that we cause by accident?
Critics' Pick: Katie Kirkpatrick's Best Theatre of 2023

Dec 19, 2023 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

2023 has been a big year for theatre. It’s easy to say that every year, but in the past twelve months we have seen a real shakeup of artistic directors, as well as a whole series of new smash hits, from revivals to new musicals to cutting-edge plays. With the pandemic era of closed buildings and Zoom plays fading into distant memory, theatre is well and truly back and thriving.
Review: TALKING ABOUT THE FIRE, Royal Court Theatre

Dec 8, 2023 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

There are nine countries in the world with nuclear weapons. And at any second, any one of them could press a button that would put an immediate and catastrophic end to life as we know it. Armed with just a laptop, a projector, a kettle, and some biscuits, Fringe veteran Chris Thorpe faces this reality head-on, and takes us along for the ride.
Staging Grief

Nov 29, 2023 | the-orb.org | Katie Kirkpatrick

By Katie KirkpatrickArt by Leya Jasmin Staging grief is a delicate balancing act. The difficulty lies in whether making grief a spectacle, with allocated seats, marketing materials, and lighting states, moves it too far from reality and thus dooms it to inauthenticity. James Fritz’s Lava, first performed in 2018 but recently revived, sets its exploration of grief in the aftermath of a major disaster: an asteroid has hit London, killing thousands.
Review: FEELING AFRAID AS IF SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS GOING TO HAPPEN, Bush Theatre

Nov 16, 2023 | broadwayworld.com | Katie Kirkpatrick

A comedian with a boyfriend who physically cannot laugh: it’s a winning concept. In Marcelo Dos Santos’ razor-sharp one-man show about love, death, and comedy, theatricality is used as a weapon. This is a very clever staging of a very clever play. You would be forgiven, upon entering the Bush theatre space, for thinking you were attending a queer stand-up show.