Actor and playwright Topher Payne. (Photograph by Clint Reardon)
On this collection, ArtsATL asks a member of the Atlanta arts group to share 11 issues on their thoughts. We hope you get pleasure from attending to know these individuals higher.
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Topher Payne has been writing performs and screenplays from his dwelling in Atlanta for greater than 25 years. His newest comedy, A First Woman’s Information to Killing the President, premieres in September and is produced by The Course of Theatre Co. at Onstage Atlanta.
Right here, in no specific order, are his 11 good issues.
1.Pleasure Deficit. On the fourth Monday of each month, Gina Rickicki gathers a motley crew of artists of all stripes at Crimson Gentle Café for transient performances designed to generate pleasure in unsure instances. It’s fairly actually my blissful place.
2. Root Beer Float – JonnyPops. It’s a root beer float in popsicle type. You’re welcome.
3. Canine snarfles. A sound greatest described as “decided contentment.” And it makes me soften.
4. Kate Hudson’s cowl of Voices Carry. She doesn’t re-invent the wheel right here, nevertheless it has all of the delight of your bestie completely crushing it at karaoke. It’s a bop.
5. Mississippi meals. I simply went dwelling. I gained weight. It was price it.
6. The And Simply Like That … The Author’s Room podcast. Getting perception right into a masterful inventive course of is all the time compelling. You already know what else is? Listening to when everybody thinks that’s what occurred.
7. Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills. Do you want a summer season ebook? This can be a excellent summer season ebook.
8. Everybody lastly getting on board with [actor and comic] Cole Escola. I haven’t been this happy with a popular culture second because the sanctification of Sheryl Lee Ralph.
9. The craft field. I don’t care how previous you might be or should you’ve received youngsters or should you even take into account your self a inventive. Maintain some glue sticks and googly eyes and pipe cleaners in your own home, and I swear you’ll put them to make use of.
10. York Walker’s Covenant [coming this fall] on the Alliance. I’ve no relationship with this manufacturing; I’m simply telling y’all I’ve learn the script, and it’s tasty Southern Gothic atmospheric spooky weirdness, and I’m actual excited to see it on a stage.
11. Espresso. Heard of it? You’ll like it.