Actors Renaissance Theatre presents: The HEAT of Southside

A Stage play written by Mary Ann Washington. ###South Memphis got HEAT, and it anit in the Kitchen -Set in the heart of South Memphis, The Heat of Southside is a fiery urban stage play about family, betrayal, love, and ambition. After spending twelve years helping build her sister Luna’s bakery, Chloe opens a bakery of her own called The Heat of Southside, sparking a bitter feud between the sisters over business, loyalty, and old wounds.As their controlling mother Darlene pushes youngest daughter Kaylee into a marriage with the wealthy Prince Rashad, Kaylee secretly longs for the man she truly loves. Meanwhile, smooth-talking con artist Eddie Earl arrives posing as a food critic while secretly planning to rob the bakery — but instead becomes tangled in the family’s dangerous secrets and emotional chaos.Filled with comedy, romance, shocking twists, and explosive drama, The Heat of Southside reveals that in this family, the real heat isn’t outside — it’s in the bakery.