Kentucky Shakespeare Festival

Kentucky Shakespeare Eyes 2014 for Expanded Theater Festival

Erin Keane — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:54:28 +0000

The Kentucky Shakespeare Festival is moving forward with a 2013 summer season and with establishing an annual "destination model" summer theater festival in Louisville.

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival Summer Season Moving Forward

Erin Keane — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:33:56 +0000

Producing artistic director Brantley Dunaway confirmed today that the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival will stage a summer season. Though the organization produces the oldest free annual Shakespeare in the Park festival in the United States, the future of the festival was uncertain at the end of last season.

‘It’s All Go or Nothing’: Shakespeare Board Committed to Funding Park Productions in Full

Erin Keane — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:35:22 +0000

Despite a recent report by WAVE 3 that the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival is in financial trouble, incoming board president Allen Harris says the company as a whole is financially sound.

Shakespeare in the Wild West

Erin Keane — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is one of the original romantic comedies, full of tropes you don’t have to be a Bard scholar to recognize: the bickering twosome who fight their mutual attraction until finally succumbing to each other’s unlikely charms, the tragic misunderstanding that derails a happy engagement, meddling relatives, scheming frenemies.