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SWEET WATER TASTE at Horizon Theatre Company

Dates: (7/12/2019 - 8/18/2019 )

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Horizon Theatre Company


1083 Austin Avenue
Atlanta,GA 30307

Phone: 404.584.7450

Tickets: $30+

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All hell (and a little bit of heaven) breaks loose when Elijah Beckford, a prominent southern black undertaker, approaches his wealthy white cousins, Charlie and Elizabeth Beckford, and demands to be buried in the family cemetery. SWEET WATER TASTE is an award-winning comedy-drama making its Southeastern premiere at Horizon Theatre Company this summer.

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Love and revolution are at the center of the world premiere of acclaimed Shay Youngblood’s play, Square Blues, about three generations of a southern Black family who share a passion for activism, art, and following your heart. Square Blues will make its premiere on the Horizon stage from July 22 – August 21 (Press Opening July 29). 

Horizon Theatre Company Presents The Regional Premiere Of THE LIGHT By Loy Webb
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Recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play, Loy Webb's debut work, The Light, hits the Horizon stage from March 19th-April 17th (Press Opening March 25th). Horizon's regional premiere of The Light is an intimate, funny, and powerful look at love today in all its complexity, featuring two of Atlanta's most dynamic actors, Enoch King and Cynthia D. Barker.

Horizon Theatre Company to Present Regional Premiere of THE LIGHT
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March 03, 2022

Recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play, Loy Webb’s debut work, The Light, hits the Horizon stage from March 19th-April 17th (Press Opening March 25th). Horizon’s regional premiere of The Light is an intimate, funny, and powerful look at love today in all its complexity, featuring two of Atlanta’s most dynamic actors, Enoch King and Cynthia D. Barker.

Horizon Theatre Announces SOUTHBOUND: Love, Lust And Loss A Love-ly Night Of True Life Tales And Tunes From The ATL
Horizon Theatre Announces SOUTHBOUND: Love, Lust And Loss A Love-ly Night Of True Life Tales And Tunes From The ATL
February 17, 2022

Enjoy the last night of the month of love with Horizon Theatre Company's Southbound: Love, Lust and Loss. Join us LIVE for an evening of real-life humorous tales celebrating love and the lengths we will go to find it, enjoy it and at times, lose it. Southbound is LIVE from our stage in Little Five Points on Monday, February 28, at 8:00 pm.

Horizon Theatre Announces SOUTHBOUND FOR THE HOLIDAYS
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Celebrate the holiday season with Horizon Theatre Company with Southbound for the Holidays: The Merry, The Magic, The Madness.  Join in LIVE (or on Zoom) for a night of Ho, Ho, Ho's with real-life humorous holiday tales and tunes from the ATL told LIVE from our stage in Little Five Points on Monday, December 13, at 8:00 pm.

Atlanta's Horizon Theatre Company to Reopen for Live Audiences with Halloween SOUTHBOUND Show
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Atlanta's Horizon Theatre Company will present their 6th episode of Southbound to welcome audiences back to live theatre, as well as through Zoom via their online programming

Horizon Theatre Announces Return to Live and In-Person Theatre with SOUTHBOUND HALLOWEEN
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Celebrate the Halloween season with the grand reopening of the Horizon Theatre Company with Southbound Halloween: The Spooky, The Sexy, The Scandalous – a night of hilarious, spine-tingling, and suspenseful real-life stories told LIVE onstage in Little Five Points.

Horizon Theatre Announces Schedule Changes
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Horizon Theatre has released the following statement regarding upcoming changes to their schedule:

Horizon Theatre Company is Delaying the Opening of THE LIGHT
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Horizon Theatre Company has released the following statement: 

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Horizon Theatre Company is continuing its outstanding 35th Anniversary Season with one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the past decade, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Winner of 7 Olivier Awards and 5 Tony Awards including 'Best Play,' the show brings Mark Haddon's beloved best-selling novel to thrilling life on stage, adapted by two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.  Horizon Theatre Company's Atlanta premiere starts performances September 20, 2019 (Press Opening September 27, 2019) and runs until October 27, 2019 at Horizon Theatre in Little Five Points/Inman Park (1083 Austin Avenue N.E., Atlanta, GA 30307)  Atlanta. This show is a co-production between Horizon Theatre Company and Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, Georgia. This production will move to Aurora for a run from January 9 through February 9, 2020. The play is sponsored in part by The Marcus Autism Center, a subsidiary of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Osiason Educational Foundation.

Horizon Theatre Announces Summer Comedy SWEET WATER TASTE
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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.

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Horizon Theatre Company is at 1083 Austin Avenue, Atlanta, GA.

Sophisticated and funky, casual and friendly, Horizon is Atlanta’s home for the best in contemporary theatre – smart, entertaining, fun and provocative. Outstanding plays from around the world, never before seen in Atlanta. Award-winning professional actors, directors and designers. Stories that are relevant to your life…provocative and fresh stories of positive change — all up close and personal in our intimate Inman Park/Little Five Points home. Since 1983, Horizon has produced over 130 professional contemporary plays and reaches over 45,000 patrons every year with an adventurous mix of nationally and internationally acclaimed plays and our own Atlanta stories. Horizon’s main home is an intimate 172-seat theatre located between Inman Park and the eclectic Little Five Points business and arts district.

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