Stand-up comic and actress Ali Wong is coming to the Tabernacle April 24. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 3.
Prices run from $49.50 to $99.75 with a few seats in the front rows even pricier.
UPDATE: A few days later, she added a second show at 9:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale March 8.
Wong, who is both brash and dirty on stage, hit it big with her breakthrough Netflix stand-up special “Baby Cobra” while she was pregnant and followed up with “Hard Knock Wife” in 2018 and “Don Wong” last year.
Her last stand-up show in Atlanta was sold out at the Tabernacle in 2019.
In her act, she used to frequently talk about her husband Justin Hakuta, a tech entrepreneur, but they divorced after eight years and two children in 2022.
“We’re really, really close; we’re best friends,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in a feature published on Wednesday. “We’ve been through so much together. It’s a very unconventional divorce.”
In fact, she said Hakuta will join her on tour as he has in the past. At the Tabernacle show in 2019, Hakuta manned the merchandise table downstairs after the show.
“I’m still workshopping it, but the bones are there and it came to me very fast,” Wong told THR. “This is the first hour I’m doing since I started where I’m single. I think we’re going to call it the Single Lady tour.”
She starred in a 2019 romantic Netflix film “Always Be My Maybe” with Randall Park and recently completed a new Netflix comedy “Beef” with Steven Yeun (”The Walking Dead”) coming out in April. Yeun and Wong play road-rage victims whose lives are forever changed by it.
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HGTV said it has given “Married to Real Estate,” featuring married Atlanta couple Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson, 12 more episodes on top of the 12 they have already filmed for season two, which is currently airing on the network.
In the series, Sherrod and Jackson help families in metro Atlanta buy and renovate their dream homes.
“From the beginning, we knew Egypt and Mike would be our next big stars,” said Loren Ruch, Head of Content, HGTV in a statement to Yahoo! News. “It’s more than their expertise, passion and authenticity that make them appealing to our audience, it’s also their aspirational relationship, love of community and family life. This combination fueled the double-digit ratings increases for ‘Married to Real Estate’ this season and helped us attract new viewers.”
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Athena Studios in Athens is officially open for business.
It has 200,000 square feet of purpose-built space with the latest technology for TV and film production.
Joel Harber, president of Reynolds Capital, which has invested $60 million into the project, said they are speaking to different productions that could start this spring and summer, noting that they are “in the process of nailing down who will be first in at this time.”
The 100-acre property is about four miles east of downtown Athens.
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