STAGE TUBE: Horizon Theatre Opens SHOOTING STAR Tonight, 2/12

Atlanta's Horizon Theatre Company will open their latest romantic comedy, Shooting Star by Steven Dietz, tonight, February 12.  The production will run through March 14. 

Shooting Star opens Horizon's 26th season. Here the story is one of love and loss and moving on and the "what if" fascination that draws us to school reunions and old love letters. What ever became of my college soul mate? Where would I be now if I had taken that different path? And if we met by chance again, what would happen? The director is Horizon's co-artistic director and co-founder, Jeff Adler, working with two actors, Leigh Campbell and Jim Hammond, who we have been connected to as artists for over two decades. 

Steven Dietz is one of America's most widely-produced and published contemporary playwrights. His thirty-plus plays have been staged at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in England, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Peru, Singapore and South Africa. His latest plays will be among the most produced plays at regional theatres this season. Recent plays include: the popular thriller, Yankee Tavern; the Steinberg New Play Award finalist (given by the American Theatre Critics Association), Becky's New Car; the Steinberg finalist and Pulitzer-nominated Last of the Boys (produced by Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago); and the Edgar Award-winning Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (from William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle). His perhaps most produced play to date is Lonely Planet, winner of the PEN-USA Award in Drama, the Outer Critic's Circle Nomination and the Drama-Logue Award.

Dietz's plays range from the political to the comedic to the very personal, and many of them have as a central theme the effects of personal betrayal and deception. His other plays include Fiction (produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company and winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award), Inventing van Gogh, The Nina Variations, Private Eyes, Halcyon Days, God's Country and the acclaimed adaptation of Dan Gutman's baseball novel, Honus and Me. Mr. Dietz is currently at work on new plays commissioned by the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis) and the Denver Center Theatre Company. His work as a director has been seen at many of America's leading regional theaters. Born and raised in Denver, he began his career in Minneapolis before moving to his long-time home, Seattle. Dietz is married with two children and now divides his time between Seattle and Austin, where he is a professor of playwriting and screenwriting at the University of Texas.

Shooting Star was commissioned by the Denver Theatre Center, premiered at Zach Theatre in Austin and is being produced this season at Horizon and by Trinity Repertory in Providence, RI and City Theatre in Pittsburgh.

The show performs Wednesdays & Thurs, 8 PM ($20); Fridays, 8 PM ($22); Saturday Matinees, 3 PM, ($20); Saturday evenings, 8:30 PM, ($25); and Sundays, 5 PM, ($22).  There is a Pay What You Can Wednesday 2/18 with a $5 minimum cash payment.  For tickets and more information, visit www.horizontheatre.com.

 

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