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Who Is In Your Lineage: Sweet Water Taste at Horizon Theatre Makes You Wonder
Who Is In Your Lineage: Sweet Water Taste at Horizon Theatre Makes You Wonder Do you know who is in your lineage? There are some secrets that the people of old want to keep and then there are some that need to get out and be told. Sometimes there are times that we only want what is rightfully part of our inheritance and quick frankly that is part of what is going on in Sweet Water Taste at Horizon Theatre. It is one of the funniest and thought-provoking plays put on at Horizon Theatre. From the start of the play there are some of the funniest scenes and when you…
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Sweet Water Taste at Horizon Theatre starting July 13th
Sweet Water Taste at Horizon Theatre starting July 13th Horizon Theatre Company is continuing its 35th Anniversary Season with a production that packs more family drama than your laugh-box will be able to stand! SWEET WATER TASTE, a new comedy from Gloria Bond Clunie, will hit the Little Five Points stage from July 12 – August 18, 2019. “You won’t want to miss this story of two families, one black, one white – two branches of one family tree in North Carolina,” says Co-Artistic Director Lisa Adler. “Funny, irreverent and topical, SWEET WATER TASTE features some of Atlanta’s best actors and Horizon favorites. If you’ve loved previous summer productions from…
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THE CAKE at Horizon Theatre Company
THE CAKE at Horizon Theatre Company Horizon Theatre Company is continuing its 35th Anniversary Season with a production from the writer of TV’s biggest hit, This Is Us – Bekah Brunstetter! THE CAKE, a touching new comedy, will hit the Little Five Points stage from May 17 – June 23, 2019. THE CAKE is hailed by STAGESCENELA as “A DEEPLY PERSONAL, DELIGHTFULLY DOWN-HOME PORTRAIT OF THE GAY-WEDDING-CAKE-WARS.” Bound to be another conversation starter, just like PIPELINE which was another play that made one think. About The CAKE All is going well for Della. Her North Carolina bakery is legendary and she’s just been cast on her favorite television baking competition. And…
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PIPELINE at Horizon Theatre is POWERFUL!!
I received complimentary tickets to see PIPELINE for free in exchange for promoting and sharing about this play. PIPELINE at Horizon Theatre is POWERFUL!! Emotions. All over the place emotions. If you have ever gave a darn about anyone in your life, you would be able to relate to this play. If you have ever felt at the end of your rope and that you would give your last breath to save someone, you will be able to relate to this play. Dominique covers the controversial topic of the pipeline between school to prison for a lot of people (young men specifically) of color. So much can go on inside…
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Pipeline at Horizon Theatre starting March 22nd
Pipeline at Horizon Theatre starting March 22nd Horizon Theatre Company is continuing its 35th Anniversary Season with production from the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” for 2018 – Dominique Morisseau! PIPELINE, a groundbreaking new play, will hit the Little Five Points stage from March 22 – April 21, 2019. PIPELINE is hailed by Village Voice as “A POWERFUL, PASSIONATE, AND INTELLIGENT NEW PLAY.†“Pipeline feels ripped from the headlines,†say Marguerite Hannah, Associate Producer at Horizon, “but, this time we are allowed to witness the human backstory of a mother’s fight for her teenage son and her high school students. It is an American story of a family…
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Atlanta Horizon Theatre’s The Wolves
Horizon Theatre Company is kicking off its 35th Anniversary Season with The Wolves, a groundbreaking new play by Sarah DeLappe, will hit the Little Five Points stage from January 25 through March 3, 2019. Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girl’s indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors.  A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American young women who just want to score some goals.  Veteran director Heidi Cline McKerley leads a racially diverse cast with the indoor…
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Waffle Palace Christmas – Horizon Theatre
The holiday spirit is alive and well within the Waffle Palace for customers and staff alike. Long-time, African-American waitress Connie has invested her own savings to keep the Waffle Palace open and is now in partnership with her former boss, John Picket. Connie hires a likeable young cook with no grill experience but artistic talents galore, and a young web developer with some secrets, Alex, begins hanging out at the Waffle Palace daily. Former waitress Esperanza and customer Hugo have returned from a long honeymoon (funded by the lottery she won) and are pregnant, with the baby due on Christmas Day. To top it off, Dave, a young vet…
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Nomad Motel: Horizon Theatre
I have received passes for a showing of Nomad Motel for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. #ad Would you leave your teenage child alone to fin for themselves while you try to get your act together? Have you came the end of your robe and thought that they would be better off without you? These are just some of the few questions, some of the characters in Nomad Motel had to ask themselves. As I have mentioned in my original Nomad Motel post, Nomad Motel is a funny and poignant tale of motel kids and parachute kids raising themselves and making something out of nothing in the…
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Nomad Hotel from the Writer of Fear: The Walking Dead
I have received passes in exchange for my honest and unbiased review of the play. #ad Nomad Motel – a fresh, coming of age comedy-drama about an American and a Chinese family whose lives are unexpectedly linked – makes its Southern debut as the finale of Horizon Theatre Company’s “New American Dreams Series†this fall. Horizon’s National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Nomad Motel by Carla Ching begins September 21, 2018 and runs through October 21, 2018 (press opening on September 28) on the intimate Horizon stage in Little Five Points/Inman. Nomad Motel is a funny and poignant tale of motel kids and parachute kids raising themselves and…
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How Black Mothers Say I Love You
How Black Mothers Say I Love You I will receive tickets to one of the performance in exchange for promotion of this play at Horizon Theatre. Second in Horizon’s New American Dreams Series, How Black Mothers Say I Love You is a powerful, funny and touching tale of a Jamaican mother and her daughters back home together – laughing, shouting and searching for love. How Black Mothers Say I Love You makes its U.S. premiere at Horizon Theatre Company with an all-star cast and creative team, with performances beginning July 13. Ottawa Tonite says, “Playwright Trey Anthony’s love letter written to those women in her family that had to leave…
