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Womble Bond Dickinson Partner Nikole Crow is a long-time member of the Atlanta Bar Association and since 2005, she has participated Association’s Bard Show. Crow is both a cast member and on the executive production committee for this year’s production, “A Courthouse Line XIII: Nightmare on 14th Street,” the latest in the series of original comedy productions they have been putting on since 1999.

"A Courthouse Line" is a musical production that is written, directed, produced, and performed exclusively by attorneys and judges to benefit the Atlanta Bar Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization and charitable arm of the Atlanta Bar. Performers come from big firms, small firms, solo practices, academia, corporate counsel positions, prosecutors’ offices, criminal defense firms, and the judiciary. This year’s show features the talents of over 50 such lawyers and judges.

Although it is a great joy and privilege to perform in, and produce, this show, its main objective is to be a fundraiser for the Atlanta Bar Foundation. Since its inception in 1985, the Foundation has distributed more than $2 million to fund Atlanta Bar Association community service projects and other law-related programs in the Atlanta area. Beneficiaries include: Atlanta Bar Association Summer Law Internship Program, Minority and Diversity Clerkship Program, Police Scholarship Fund recipients, the Rowland W. Barnes Scholarship, Atlanta Santa, Truancy Intervention Project, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers' Foundation, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, Georgia Asylum & Immigration, Georgia Justice Project, Georgia Law Center for the Homeless, Georgia Appleseed, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, and others.

While traditionally a biannual event, the Bard Show has been on hiatus since the pandemic began in 2020. The Atlanta Bar Association troupe is thrilled to be hitting the stage again with the first show since 2018 at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts & Community Center in Decatur on November 8-9, 2024. There are three shows: Friday and Saturday evening shows at 8 p.m., and a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now.