Longtime Atlanta theater seeks new home after 12 years in Midtown
Synchronicity Theatre, a well-respected female-led Atlanta theater organization, is hunting for a new home after 12 years at its Midtown location.
Dewberry Capital Corp., which owns Synchronicity’s theater space at Peachtree Pointe, chose not to renew its lease option.
Synchronicity’s final play in that location, Catherine Yu’s “In Spite of My Ambivalence,” will run June 3-28.
“This was definitely not on our bingo card at the beginning of the year,” Synchronicity’s co-founder and producing artistic director Rachel May said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We are obviously disappointed, but they’ve been great partners.”
The current location is “a lovely, intimate but also pretty petite space,” May said. “We will have the opportunity to find a setting with a little higher ceiling and more wing space.”
Synchronicity, which produces several plays per year, debuted in 1997 and was itinerant for its first 16 years before finding a first permanent space at Peachtree Pointe.
May said they are now hunting for a new location, though they would prefer to stay in Midtown. Synchronicity’s office and rehearsal space, which the group moved in to in 2019, is 1.4 miles away in the same building as Smith’s Olde Bar in the Ansley Park neighborhood.
“We have to change gears,” she said. “We are embracing the change. And we’re excited to see if we can find a place with a little more activity going on in the area.”
The current theater is in an area where pedestrian traffic is modest and the restaurant space on the same floor has been empty since Tavenpointe shut down early in 2020.
“We have already had conversations with civic organizations, with developers and folks who do economic development on the Beltline,” she said.
May said she believes Synchronicity, with its well-established reputation, will be attractive to developers.
“Our work has grown as we’ve expanded our programs,” she said. “We know what we bring to the table. We can help drive business around whatever space we get.”
Besides the plays it produces on the main stage, Synchronicity also offers summer camps, workshops for girls in group homes, a production boot camp for technicians and, later this month, its annual luncheon for women in the arts and business.
The organization, she said, is in strong financial shape. Its most recent 990 report, from 2024, filed to the federal government said it generated $1.1 million in revenue with expenses of $1.2 million, but its assets were greater than its liabilities.
May said she hopes to find a new permanent space, renovate it and reopen within a year. In the meantime, they will have to improvise.
“We’re in communication with different arts organizations to do coproductions and mount productions on someone else’s stage,” she said. “We are planning for six months to a year of possibly being in different spaces, with the hope it’s as short as possible.”
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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.
