Mar 30 Arts and Culture Broadway Series Announces Season with Retro Rock, Classics Louisville theater audiences may see the new stage musical adaptation of the film “Flashdance” even before it opens in New York. The show is planned to open on Broadway for a limited run on a date yet to be determined, but the touring production is already confirmed for the upcoming Broadway in Louisville season. By Erin Keane Mar 30 Arts and Culture Broadway Series Announces Season with Retro Rock, Classics Erin Keane
Mar 26 Arts and Culture “Michael von Siebenburg” Seeks Redemption in Smart, Dark Comedy You can’t go back to Constantinople, the song cautions. And anyway, according to 500-year-old Crusades survivor Michael von Siebenburg, “Christendom isn’t what it used to be.” What is? A man accepts that uncovering the secret to life everlasting means leaving behind all he once had. But now, not even the tender meat of the innocents […] By Erin Keane Mar 26 Arts and Culture “Michael von Siebenburg” Seeks Redemption in Smart, Dark Comedy Erin Keane
Mar 26 Arts and Culture “Oh, Gastronomy!” Serves a Feast for the Stage Take a director and a dramaturg with one big idea. Add five playwrights, 22 young actors, and at least one banjo to make “Oh, Gastronomy!,” this year’s witty and surprisingly touching Actors Theatre of Louisville apprentice showcase. Conceived by apprentice/intern company associate director Amy Attaway (who also directed) and literary manager Sarah Lunnie (dramaturg) and […] By Erin Keane Mar 26 Arts and Culture “Oh, Gastronomy!” Serves a Feast for the Stage Erin Keane
Mar 26 Arts and Culture New Actors Theatre Artistic Director to Stage Two Plays Next Season The new artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville is already making his mark. Les Waters—who was hired in November and moved to Louisville last month—says he had complete involvement in selecting the theater’s next season of plays. Actors Theatre announced their 2012-13 season last week. Waters says he hopes the eclectic range of work, […] By Erin Keane Mar 26 Arts and Culture New Actors Theatre Artistic Director to Stage Two Plays Next Season Erin Keane
Mar 23 Arts and Culture Money Talks in Psychological Thriller “Death Tax” “Nobody does something for nothing,” Maxine states flatly from her hospital bed. That’s the golden rule for the characters of Lucas Hnath’s “Death Tax,” a dense psychological thriller centered around an elderly woman’s ability to manipulate her caretakers and family. Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, “Death Tax” premiered Thursday at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 36th […] By Erin Keane Mar 23 Arts and Culture Money Talks in Psychological Thriller “Death Tax” Erin Keane
Mar 23 Arts and Culture Man vs. Monster: “Michael Von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards” Playwright Talks Cost of Living for the Undead Baron Von Siebenburg is a man out of time. Immortality isn’t what it used to be for the 500-year-old vampire anti-hero of “Michael Von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards,” playwright Greg Kotis’s dark comedy premiering Saturday in the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. “It’s a play about a man […] By Erin Keane Mar 23 Arts and Culture Man vs. Monster: “Michael Von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards” Playwright Talks Cost of Living for the Undead Erin Keane
Mar 22 Arts and Culture Honesty Has Its Price in ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ Honesty might be a virtue, but its price, vulnerability, proves steep for some in Courtney Baron’s “Eat Your Heart Out,” a forthright exploration of the demands of unfulfilled desire. Directed by Adam Greenfield, “Eat Your Heart Out” is the fourth play to open in the 36th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre […] By Erin Keane Mar 22 Arts and Culture Honesty Has Its Price in ‘Eat Your Heart Out’ Erin Keane
Mar 21 Arts and Culture Actors Theatre Apprentice Showcase Celebrates Food There’s just over a week left in the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. While most of the parts in the festival’s ten world premieres are played by professional actors, every year Actors Theatre commissions playwrights to create a showcase production for the theater’s acting apprentices to perform. This year’s […] By Erin Keane Mar 21 Arts and Culture Actors Theatre Apprentice Showcase Celebrates Food Erin Keane
Mar 20 Arts and Culture Actors Theatre of Louisville announces new season Actors Theatre of Louisville has announced its next season of plays. The theater will kick off the 2012-13 season September 4 with William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers “Romeo and Juliet.” The tragedy will be directed by Louisville native and former Actors Theatre apprentice Tony Speciale, currently associate artistic director of New York City’s Classic Stage Company. […] By Erin Keane Mar 20 Arts and Culture Actors Theatre of Louisville announces new season Erin Keane
Mar 9 Arts and Culture “Hour of Feeling” Masterfully Blends Competing Desires, Cultures If you want to understand the Sixties, go back to the early 1800s, when Romantic poets like William Wordsworth rejected classical rationalism to celebrate the beauty of deep emotion and the sanctity of individual experience. Playwright Mona Mansour mines this rich literary tradition in “The Hour of Feeling,” an intensely emotional journey from Palestine to […] By Erin Keane Mar 9 Arts and Culture “Hour of Feeling” Masterfully Blends Competing Desires, Cultures Erin Keane
Mar 5 Arts and Culture Humana Play Flawlessly Examines Coming of Age in Suburban Hip Hop Culture The exact dates of the golden age of hip hop are still under debate, but scholars and fans alike agree that 1988 — after Run DMC walked this way but before the Fresh Prince moved to Bel Air — was a watershed year. 1988 belonged to Public Enemy, Eric B. and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, […] By Erin Keane Mar 5 Arts and Culture Humana Play Flawlessly Examines Coming of Age in Suburban Hip Hop Culture Erin Keane
Mar 1 Arts and Culture 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 […] By Erin Keane Mar 1 Arts and Culture Humana Festival Play Examines Sinister Side of Customer Service Erin Keane
Mar 1 Arts and Culture 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 […] By Erin Keane Mar 1 Arts and Culture Humana Festival of New American Plays Opens at Actors Theatre Erin Keane