Tickets are $25 (at /event/5159617, limited availability for Nov. “You Better Call Your Mother,” a 90-minute show in two acts, is directed by Courtenay Collins, with musical direction by Bill Newberry. “At the time, I was a little bit famous after 10 years on television and I was playing a gay character on “Party of Five.” As it turned out, the spontaneous decision to ‘come out’ at that moment, made after years of trying to figure out how to live sort of in and sort of out of the closet, changed the trajectory of my life.” “When I walked off stage after going off-script and telling the audience I was gay at the 1996 GLAAD Awards in Los Angeles, I was advised, literally by someone I was passing as I left the stage, ‘You better call your mother,’” Anderson recounted. The owner of MetroFresh and a star of the digital series “After Forever” traces the title to when he came out of the closet in a most public way 25 years ago. The fruit of that effort, a cabaret-style evening of anecdotes and songs that he has titled “You Better Call Your Mother,” continues through Nov. Spurred by his then-approaching 60th birthday and the isolation of the early part of COVID-19, Atlanta actor and chef Mitchell Anderson challenged himself to create an autobiographical show about his life. Mitchell Anderson, who has starred on shows including 'Doogie Howser, MD' and 'Party of Five,' owns MetroFresh in Midtown and MetroFresh Catering.Ĭredit: Becky Stein Life is a cabaret for MetroFresh’s Mitchell Anderson The festival requires proof of vaccination or a negative test no more than 72 hours old, with masks required as well. The company’s mission is to help develop “a thriving, dynamic American theatre community in which Georgia playwrights are a recognized and celebrated part.” Since 1999, Essential Theatre has produced more than three dozen world premieres by Georgia writers, including early plays of writers who have gone on to achieve national recognition such as Lauren Gunderson and Topher Payne. It’s billed as a “heart-expanding autobiofictional story about one woman’s wild and epic journey into motherhood.” The Essential Theatre Play Festival also will reprise Shelby Hofer’s “High Risk, Baby!” on Nov.

Growing up on one side of the tracks versus the other sometimes meant that life looked incredibly different given varying socio-economic realities and segregation between races. He said while coming of age in North Florida, he “noticed how many small, Southern towns had a railroad track running through (them) that racially separated the town. White is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter from Crawford, southeast of Athens.

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