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Barter Theatre’s Must Sees
School is officially out and it is time to travel. With the price of gas nowadays, a trip needs to be within 6 hours of one’s home. It creates the perfect opportunity to explore the beautiful gems that can be found in each state. Six hours or so, just outside of Atlanta, one will find Abingdon, Virginia and within it a quaint venue called Barter Theatre. Summer sizzles at Barter Theatre, which has proudly served vacationers from across the southern states for 89 years as the nation’s longest-running professional theatre. Visitors to Abingdon, VA this June, July, and August can look forward to taking in a show or two (or…
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ATLANTA MUSIC THEATRE FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR 2019
Founder and Executive Artistic Director Benjamin Taylor Davis announces today that submissions for the Fourth Annual Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival (AMTF), to be held in the summer in Atlanta, are officially open. The deadline to submit new works is February 1, 2019. Selections will be announced in April 2019, at the annual selections announcement event (details forthcoming). Performances will be open to the artistic community, the public, and the press. Partner venues, along with Festival dates, will be announced shortly. Tickets to the Festival will go on sale in Spring 2019. The inaugural Festival in 2016 was a huge success, and the Festival has grown in each subsequent year. In…
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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 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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Freaky Friday Fun At Horizon Theatre
A comedic bunch of laughs that everyone in the family will enjoy. The funniest thing to me like in the movie, is seeing the mother and daughter act like each other and it is so exaggerated, but at the same time it seems like there is no other way for either of them to act. They play each other so well that the mother could be the daughter and the daughter the mother. All of the songs are catchy and it made me want to be a teenager again. I totally wanted to be on stage when they were doing the slow motion thing and oh so funny was when…
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The Ballad of Klook and Vinette – Horizon Theatre
2017 Horizon Theatre had a great year of plays and 2018 will be no different. I laughed, cried and was in some intense thought leaving many of the plays. Great writers, production, set design and everything in between. See below how to get your season tickets. Coming this week to the Horizon Theatre, Klook is a drifter who’s tired of drifting. Vinette is on the run but she doesn’t know what’s chasing her. Together, they make a tentative stab at love and reach for hope until the past catches up to the future and smacks it in the face. Tough, tender, funny, poignant, The Ballad of Klook and Vinette will…
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Horizon Theatre: Nobody Loves You
The world would be a horrible place to live if no one loved you. Pretty sad even. All of us need love of some type or another well don’t count on it on this new play coming to Horizon Theatre Friday March 17th, 2017. As with everything life starts out one way and ends up another…. Nobody Loves You, the TV show-within-the-show, follows attractive singles pairing up in weekly installments only to get booted off if—well, if nobody loves you!   When Jeff, a philosophy grad student unexpectedly snags a spot on the show, he finds himself on a mission to expose its “authenticityâ€. That is until he unexpectedly makes on…
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Freed Spirits Horizon Theatre in Atlanta
Hello All. I am back and hopefully to stay:) I have had a month and it has been crazy. Stop by and I will tell you about it sometime soon. When I visit a city that I have never been to before or just want to know more about I usually go on some type of tour, but the one type of tour I do not go on is a ghost tour. Hecks no. No way in double hockey sticks, but there just might be one ghost tour that I might have to take part in. What will make me change my mind you ask? Well…. Horizon Theatre is back…
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Theatre Review: ‘da Kink Recap and Afterparty
Opening night was a success and every night/showing since, so you want to get in to see this awesome play before it leaves Atlanta. The play showing at the Horizon Theatre in Little Five Points, is called ‘da Kink. The play is written by Trey Anthony who has done quite a bit of work in Canada and is also known for her work as a writer on the Chris Rock Show. You know she has got to be funny if she worked on the Chris Rock Show. If you want to Know a Woman, Touch her hair is one of the main sayings in the play and it is so…
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The City of Conversation: Horizon Theatre Atlanta
The City of Conversation: Horizon Theatre Atlanta Just in time for the elections this year, here comes another great play at the Horizon Theatre that centers around decades of a political family. Now with the internet and cell phones that are computers most conversations are had over the internet, however in this bound to be controversal and hilarious, there are a lot of face to face conversations that are guaranteed to be heated. Washington DC was once a place where people actually talked to each other… savvy maven Hester Ferris opens her home for political foes to lay down arms and raise a glass. But that is all about the…
