Michelle Hiskey

Last fall, Mitchell Anderson decided to revive his acting career in “Next Fall,” now playing at Actor’s Express on Atlanta’s west side.

After a successful TV and movie resume – you may have seen him in the series “Party of Five” or as Richard Carpenter in “The Karen Carpenter Story,” or as the kid who got eaten by a shark in “Jaws” — Anderson had left Hollywood to settle into a new life in Atlanta.

An apprenticeship in the kitchen of Jenny “Souper Jenny” Levison led to him opening his own restaurant, Metrofresh in Midtown, and a spin-off bistro at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

At 50, his culinary stage kept him plenty busy – but what pulled him back to acting was what he loved about cooking, too: friendships and a unique, exquisite creation.
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Describing a recent, resonant visit to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C.:

“Against a brilliant sky rose King, almost three stories high, partially emerged from the stone, his arms crossed and eyes to the horizon. The chill seemed to bring him even more in relief, the sculptor’s lines more edgy, bare as the young trees nearby.”
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Atlanta native Peter Linz talks about finding his identity by becoming a Muppeteer:

“The character of Walter hits really close to home for me. I’ve always been an enormous Muppet fan who dreamed of one day working with the Muppets, and that’s basically who Walter is. How flipping crazy is that? It’s mind-blowing. I could have been cast as a monster or a chicken or someone’s right hand, but instead, I got cast to play the guy who is the world’s biggest Muppet fan who literally dreams of working with the Muppets. Apart from my wedding day and birth of my children, being cast as Walter, was one of the greatest moments of my life. I was beyond happiness.” Continue reading →

While Atlanta Braves and their fans break for the winter, the team’s quirkiest personality — Matthew Kaminski, the twittering organist of Turner Field — stars in another arena.

Kaminski moves from brushback pitches to Broadway when he plays a tribute to Cole Porter on Dec. 28 at Eddie’s Attic.
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