With just over a week left in the Humana Festival of New American Plays, WFPL’s Erin Keane is still interviewing playwrights and giving us her take on the new work premiering at Actors Theatre. She joined us on Friday’s State of the News to review Lucas Hnath’s “Death Tax,” a psychological thriller about end-of-life issues… Continue reading Humana Plays Look at the End of Life, and What Happens if There Isn’t One
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Humana Festival Play Examines Sinister Side of Customer Service
Few critical terms are as overused as “Kafkaesque,” which has come to serve as shorthand for tedious bureaucratic snarls of all stripes. But Lisa Kron’s “The Ver**on Play,” a dark yet broad comedy about the hidden machinations and motivations of faceless corporations bent on crushing their customers’ spirits, does its best to live up to… Continue reading Humana Festival Play Examines Sinister Side of Customer Service
Humana Festival of New American Plays Opens at Actors Theatre
It starts with a script that fights its way past nearly 1,000 competing stories to the top of the stack and onto the final bill. It ends with the thrill of discovery, as audiences experience the new work for the first time. The 36th Humana Festival of New American Plays opened Wednesday at Actors Theatre… Continue reading Humana Festival of New American Plays Opens at Actors Theatre
Actors Theatre Finishes New Artist Dormitory
Louisville’s Actors Theatre will open the doors of 18 new downtown apartments this week, which will be used to house actors and actresses throughout the year. “Everything is brand spanking new,” said designer Kevin Troxall. Troxall designed all the apartments for free, which is partly how Actors Theatre was able to pull off securing and… Continue reading Actors Theatre Finishes New Artist Dormitory
Actors Theatre’s A Christmas Story Tells a Tale of Holidays Past
In Actors Theatre of Louisville’s new production of A Christmas Story, it’s striking how distinctly the emotions of the characters resonate, while at the same time, the world those characters inhabit feels fundamentally different from the world outside the theatre. The play is largely faithful to the original screenplay, and captures the purity and ferocity… Continue reading Actors Theatre’s A Christmas Story Tells a Tale of Holidays Past
Actors Theatre’s Dracula Fights Vampire Hunters (and Other Vampires)
Don’t be fooled by the script in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s production of Dracula; it would have you believe that Count Dracula’s enemy is the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing. But that’s a bloody lie. Van Helsing may be the nemesis of Dracula, the character, but Dracula, the play, has a rogues gallery all its… Continue reading Actors Theatre’s Dracula Fights Vampire Hunters (and Other Vampires)
Actors Theatre Hopes to Attract Crowds With Building Renovations
Actors Theatre of Louisville has unveiled several improvements to its downtown Louisville headquarters. The Actors Theatre building is across the street from the KFC Yum center. Until recently, there was little outward indication of what was inside. But that’s changed. Using $450,000 in grants and donations, Actors Theatre has renovated its lobby and refurbished the… Continue reading Actors Theatre Hopes to Attract Crowds With Building Renovations
“The End” Opens at Humana Festival
The End is coming to the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Not the end of the festival—it lasts until April. But the latest play to debut at the festival is an apocalyptic romp titled is The End. It features various calamities involving asteroids, aliens, zombies and Hollywood celebrities.
Actors Theatre Hosting Panel Discussion on Festival Culture
As part of this year’s Humana Festival, Actors Theatre has invited the leaders of a number of local festivals to take part in a panel discussion Saturday on Louisville’s festival culture.
Fourth New Play Debuts in Humana Festival
“The play is about three kids who are abandoned on a farm and the ways that they figure out how to take care of themselves and each other until the outside world comes in and is not happy with the decisions that they’ve made about their own upbringing,” says playwright A. Rey Pamatmat.