Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center

Join Ballethnic Dance Company as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of artistic enrichment and dance excellence. For 30 years, we have ignited our audiences with amazing stories that reflect a diverse community. Ballethnic’s signature ballet, "The Leopard Tale", returns March 19-22, 2020 at Porter S...

Cost: $40

Join Ballethnic Dance Company as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of artistic enrichment and dance excellence. For 30 years, we have ignited our audiences with amazing stories that reflect a diverse community. Ballethnic’s signature ballet, "The Leopard Tale", returns March 19-22, 2020 at Porter S...

Cost: $40-$60

Join Ballethnic Dance Company as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of artistic enrichment and dance excellence. For 30 years, we have ignited our audiences with amazing stories that reflect a diverse community. Ballethnic’s signature ballet, "The Leopard Tale", returns March 19-22, 2020 at Porter S...

Cost: $40

This event has been postponed. Check back here for the rescheduled dates. (THIS IS A DRESS REHEARSAL) Join Ballethnic Dance Company as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of artistic enrichment and dance excellence. For 30 years, we have ignited our audiences with amazing stories that reflect a dive...

Cost: $20

The Neo Renaissance Jazz Funk Orchestra will take us from the likes of Duke Ellington, Horace Silver to Etta James and Aretha Franklin, to Lou Rawls to James Brown and The Funk crew Parliament Funkadelic showcasing how the Big Band sound has influence various genres of music

Cost: $15-$25

Categories: Performing Arts Alabama Moonstruck tells the story of Bama Lee, daughter of Fred and Betty and sister to Jalisa. Fifteen years ago, Bama’s close-knit, happy family was struck by a tragedy that drastically changed the trajectory of their lives. In the time since, Bama has been the family ...

Cost: $30-$35

Randy's Baby y Grand Music presents a Live Show featuring many of Soul and R&B all time great Love songs performed by Soloist, Duets and Vocal Groups. Music from Gladys Knight, Cheryl Lynn, Peaches and Herb, Barry White, Earth Wind and Fire, Stylistics the Dells, The Emotions and others wil...

Cost: $18-$35

The renowned Holiday Ballet with an urban twist. The soulful celebration is set on Atlanta’s own Sweet Auburn Avenue in the 1940’s, featuring Reggae Ragdolls, Arabians, Black Russians, the Coca-Cola Pas de Six, along with Mother Spice and her Spice Drops. It is all led by the elegant Brown Sugar and...

Cost: $15 - $20

Categories: brunch

A Gospel Brunch Concert show with a live band and local talent performing both traditional and contemporary Gospel songs accompanied with a buffet

Cost: $45

Categories: Fashion, Dance, Soul Neighbors you are invited to the event of the year #fashioncabaret2019. This event includes designers from across the globe, The James Brown Academy of Musik Pupils and Phusion dance school. This is an experience of Fashion glamor, art, and dance that you will never ...

Cost: $45

Categories: Comedy The Peachtree Comedy Festival is a national entertainment event focused on the art and business of comedy. The festival will feature emerging and established comedians based in Atlanta and across the United States. The purpose of the event is to provide a platform for emerging com...

Cost: $15- $30

Categories: Theatre

An actor's audition preparation workshop conducted by veteran actress T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (In LIving Color, Cosby, That's So Raven).

Cost: $50

Venue: Porter Sanford Theater Decatur Ga

Children's Musical Theater event. The story of a Ballerina who didn't want to be stuck in the box.

Cost: Early Bird til April 30th. Adults $12.00 students $6.00

Heaven Invades Earth shares the experience that impacts everyone involved as unprecedented peril surrounds a loved one. Death knocks at the door prepared to take someone who is not yet ready to leave. Immediately everyone's life is thrown into a total disarray. 

 

Cost: $25 in advance, $30 at door

Directed by Schelle Purcell, Don't Call Me Brother is the tale of a African American police officer struggling with double consciousness in the wake of racialized police brutality. He struggles to reconcile his career with his identity while facing criticism from his activist brother.

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Cost: $20-$30

Dominion Entertainment Group presents... A Lesson Before Dying tells the story of Jefferson, an innocent young man, who is condemned to death in backwoods Louisiana in 1948. At the trial his lawyer, trying to save his life, calling him no more a human being than a hog. In prison, he acts like one, i...

Cost: $40

Presented by Genise Shelton of 'Married To Medicine' and the Our Children's Keeper Foundation, the event will bring awareness to sex trafficking here in Atlanta as well as providing activities for the community including a 5k, celebrity guests and appearances, food trucks and panel discussions.

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Our Children's Keeper Foundation and Genise Shelton of 'Married to Medicine' will be hosting the Bring Our Children Home 5K and Back 2 School Family Fun Day to raise awareness and create visibility for children that go missing due to sex trafficking here in the Atlanta area. The event is free and wi...

Cost: free

The 2017 Caribbean American Movers & Shakers Awards will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, The event will feature live performances, special presentations, and celebrity appearances. This year will pay tribute to the late Celia Cruz, Tim Duncan, and Civil Rights legends Xernona Clayton and John Lewis. T...

Cost: $75.00

A wealthy self-made father sets out to teach his four adopted sons the true meaning of living their lives with purpose and to stop settling in life and find their passion. Come and see this inspiring and emotional play!

Cost: $28

Kimberly Sanders captures he audience's attention in this one-woman show as the legendary Eartha Kitt. From rags to riches to professionally exiled from her country, Yella Gal" will keep anyone watching to find out how Eartha handles the ups and downs of her life and career."

Cost: $15-$20

This 5k walk/run, hosted by I AM BOOKS and David Manuel, is intended to show support and fathers in the African American community and show the power of a connected family. There will be free health screenings, live performances and quality community time. The funds raised will benefit the DeKalb Co...

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Show-N-Tell tells the story Vivian Lorraine, a young gilr who arrives to a new school on Show-N-Tell day with nothing to present. But, with the help of a friend she find she does in fact have something that makes her special. This is Stepp Stewart's firs musical.

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Leslie has always been the perfect child. She was always a straight A student and always strived to be the very best. Her siblings have always believed that she was her parent’s favorite and although she’d never admit it, Leslie agreed as well. But will the pressures of being the best and mainta...

Cost: $20-$25

This fashion show will be a fundraiser benefiting Caregivers 911, Inc. Several celebrities, including actors, actresses and other personalities, will be modeling. There will also be live entertainment from well-known artists including T-Pain.

Cost: $45-$75

CINDY, produced by Emmy-nominated producer, director, choreographer, songwriter, and playwright, Stepp Stewart, brings a musical fairytale for the whole family to enjoy.

Cost: $10-$27.50

Step back into the 1950s with TomCat.

Cost: $25-$35

Looking for something to Memorial Day Weekend Atlanta? BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, Love’s Last Episode is entertainment at it’s finest, dealing with male issues that aren’t usually addressed in today’s society. Come along on a journey with celebrity real estate broker, Michael Love, in an origin...

Cost: $20 Advance $25 @Door

A play with visual artistic moments, an engaging plot, and four memorable characters, She Still Dreams tells the story of a woman who has accepted less for her life. Set in a small Louisiana town, Savannah lives with a husband that doesn’t talk, has a best friend that does a lot, and her old flame...

Cost: $22.50

George Wallace Live Mr. Las Vegas George Wallace performing LivePresented by Friends of Vernon Jones

Cost: $50-General Admission / $100 VIP

Join Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center and Groove Café Productions, Inc., “A Soulful Sunday Jazz Experience” with some of Atlanta finest performing artists. A great event for the entire family.Tickets available online http://groovecafejazzexperience.eventbrite.com and can be purchased ...

Cost: $15.00

A young man is tormented in a dark building with no way out in sight, but is he alone? The only way to find out the secret and horror is to see it, Macabre. Starring: Josiah Bridges and Felicia Hernandez. There will also be a special teaser at the end of Macabre that you won't want to miss! Admissio...

Cost: $10

The film will screen at this month's - Get Connected:3rd ANNUAL “HOLLYWOOD & HALLOWEEN” PARTY MIXERCheck out some awesome horror films from up and coming filmmakers, make incredible connections from peers in the industry, check vendor tables tailored to the industry, enjoy free food, free candy ...

Cost: $10.00 per person

This Halloween pre-party Get Connected. Mix with film industry professionals and stick around for the screening of the feature trailer set to KontraBand Music's Dirty Motherfucker. A blood-soaked spectacle of lust and revenge fit for All Hallow's Eve.

Cost: $10

Amber is an intense psycho-thriller about the strange disappearance of nine-year-old Amber Davidson and the ensuing unapologetic relentless police investigation.

Cost: $10

The Atlanta Black Theatre Festival welcomes the Hit" comedy play "Is the Honeymoon Over?". The play focuses on four married couples.Three of the couples are going through "growing pains" of marriage and the senior couple acts as the voice of wisdom and reason. However

Cost: $15

Featuring 40 play in 4 days, as well as live entertainment, parties, Readers’ Theater, Authors’ Alley, and more.

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Catch the independent musical stage play SOULIZM!, a story of friendship, love, heartbreak, and acceptance between a nightclub owner, his fiance, and his fiance's other man.

Cost: $4-$10

Atlanta Young Singers seeks boys and girls in grades 2-6 of all musical levels for its 38th Performance Season. Group Auditions will be held on Saturday, May 11 for the AYS Training Choir rehearsal location in South DeKalb (at Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center!). Meet new frien...

Cost: No Cost to Audition

Here’s your chance to see the outrageous First Place winner at the Atlanta Film Festival 2010. Celebrate the era of classic R&B radio with the trailblazer who helped start it all, James 'Alley Pat' Patrick, who will attend in person. He’s the last surviving DJ from the first black-owned radi...

Cost: Free, donations to benefit Hosea Feed The Hungry

“Little Black Girl’s Blues” An original musical stage play, centered around coming of age, love, life and forgiveness, in the late 1920’s – 1930’s depression era. Set in 1927 and advancing forward ten years into 1937.

Cost: $15.00