Horizon Theatre to Present DETROIT, 9/19–10/19

Fire up the grill...and expect fireworks. Lisa D'Amour's Pulitzer Prize Finalist play, Detroit will be hitting Horizon Theatre's stage this September! Lauded as "superb" and "a smart, tart critique" by the New York Times and named one of their Top 10 Plays of 2012, Detroit is sure to light a fire in the hearts of audience members as it burns down the old landscape and gives rise to something new. This dangerously funny Atlanta premiere opens Sept. 19 and runs through October 19 at Horizon Theatre in Little Five Points (Euclid and Austin Avenues in Little Five Points, 1083 Austin Avenue NE). Performances are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3pm and 8:30pm and Sundays at 5pm. Tickets start at $20 and are available at www.horizontheatre.com or 404-584-7450.

"Detroit is powerful, funny, honest and incendiary - truly a theatrical feast for a talented ensemble of actors," says Lisa Adler, Artistic Director of Horizon Theatre and Detroit's director, "It's a wild ride set in a suburban
backyard, and you will be right in the midst of it in Horizon's intimate space with our award-winning cast of Atlanta pros, led by Horizon favorite Carolyn Cook. Playwright D'Amour spins a tale that takes a sharply accurate pulse of our anxious economic times, putting a human face on our stubborn pursuit of the American dream as it shifts beneath their feet."

Hilarious, high energy, and provocative, Detroit is sure to set the theatre ablaze with laughter and a new look at neighbors.

In a suburb of a mid-sized American city, Ben and Mary see sudden signs of life at the long empty house next door and invite their young, hip new neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a cookout. Upwardly mobile Ben and Mary are drawn to these live-in-the-moment recovering party animals like moths to flame. And as they bond over backyard barbecues, the neighborly connection they find threatens to unravel the lives they've built and change them forever. Ecstatic and dangerously funny, Detroit rips up the floorboards to reveal the racing heart under the suburban dream.

"What if two very different couples suddenly became neighbors, and decided to open themselves up to each other?," D'Amour writes. "Detroit, even with all its strange and startling turns, is ultimately a play about the potential within people to imagine, to discover, to continually unearth secrets about each other and the world. Our means of communication have never been as easy and as far-reaching as they are now, yet we find ourselves more isolated and insulated as ever - how, in this age of endless connectivity, can we find it in ourselves to truly reach beyond our cozy sphere of life and out to others?"

Playwright Lisa D'Amour's Detroit was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist and was named one of the top ten plays of 2012 by The New York Times. She is a recipient of the 2008 Alpert Award for the Arts in theatre, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award and the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. Her previous plays include Hide Town, Anna Bella Eema, the Obie Award-winning Nita and Zita, Cherokee, and Airline Highway (premiering this fall at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and then moving to NYC). Her plays have been produced and critically acclaimed at theatres across the country such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Playwrights Horizons and The Women's Project in NYC, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington DC. D'Amour received her MFA in playwriting at the University of Texas in Austin. She is a core member of the Playwrights' Center and a recent alumna of New Dramatists.

The show runs September 19 - October 19, 2014. Performances are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday at 5 p.m.

General admission tickets are $20 - $35, and ticket prices are subject to change based on availability. Order early to get the best prices. Eight percent sales tax will be added to all ticket orders. Group discounts are available for parties of 10 or more - call for more information. Internet convenience fee added to all online orders. No refunds, exchanges, or late seating.

This play contains strong language and adult content, and is recommended for ages 18 and up.

Tickets may be ordered by phone at 404.584.7450 or online at www.horizontheatre.com.