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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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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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Atl Cluckfest 2018 Fried Chicken Festival #atlcluckfest
I received passes for free in exchange for promotion and for giving my honest and unbiased review of the event. #ad What better combination than cool refreshing drinks/cocktails, a beautiful hot fall afternoon, a banging dj and some of the best chicken restaurants in Atlanta in one area? Nothing!! Absolutely nothing whatsoever if you ask me:) Welcome to: Atl Cluckfest 2018 Fried Chicken Festival #atlcluckfest Last week, I was able to attend the Atl CluckFest in the Little Five Points area at Candler Park; after all it was the first chicken festival in the ATL. After a morning of running a few errands, hubby and I decided that it was a…
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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…
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How To Use A Knife – Horizon Theatre Company
How To Use A Knife – Horizon Theatre Company How to Use a Knife is a sharp-edged comedy sizzling with spicy banter and second chances! In the chaotic hustle and bustle of a Wall Street restaurant, Chef George gets a fresh start when he takes over this melting-pot-of-a-kitchen. Two rowdy Guatemalan line cooks, a wet-behind-the-ears busboy, and a reserved African dishwasher serve up drama nightly. But the heat really turns up when immigration sneaks in, looking for a wanted man. How to Use a Knife bursts with grinding suspense, crackling energy, and piercing surprises as secrets from the past come to a boil. The title alone makes me very curious,…
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Theatre Recap: ‘Freed Spirits’ Horizon Theatre in Atlanta
For those of you that enjoy getting out and enjoying the Fall Season with changes of the leaves, cool breezes and everything Halloween, Freed Spirits, now playing at the Horizon Theatre in Atlanta is out now for your ghouling pleasure. It is a play by Daryl Lisa Fazio that takes place in Atlanta’s own, legendary Oakland Cemetery. You say cemetery any other day or time and I might run, but this one had me a bit intrigued. I love watching mysteries and comedies and you will find both in this play. It is showing until October 30th and it is one that you will want to see more than once.…
