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REVIEW: Stupid F*#%ing Bird - Start the Effing Play

ATCA Presentation Closes Out 40th Humana Festival

Cardboard Piano at Humana Festival: Small Extraordinary Acts of Kindness

BWW Review: Qualities of Starlight from Theatre [502]

United States In Disarray: Wellesley Girl at the Humana Festival

Fresh, Eager, Real: This Random World at Humana

In the opening monologue of For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, Ann (Kathleen Chalfant), the eldest of her siblings, reminisces about a part she played as a young woman; the part was Peter Pan; she doesn't know why people laugh when she tells the story, she says; she is the image of Mary Martin, or at least how you might remember Mary Martin to look at 70, strong features, long neck, short cropped blonde hair combed back, warm and cheerful with something intelligent underneath. It is the start of a metaphor that Ruhl returns to again and again, unabashedly mining it for all that it is, in a play that seems to be about everything: life, the death of one's parents, politics, spirituality, and finally about growing up, whatever that might mean.

The Louisville Orchestra and Louisville Ballet Spring Collaboration may be one of those nights we will talk about in the future. We will say -- Remember the night that the private conversation the artists shared went public?

A woman, Maggie, (Danielle Slavick) who is a sales representative for a medical supply company checks in to a long-term residential hotel in Temp, Arizona for a month-long stay. Right away she establishes an uneasy sort of alliance with two hotel employees, Bobby (Alexandro Rodriguez) and Theresa (Leah Karpel). This curious triangle of people in transition forms the nucleus of Laura Jacqmin's Residence, a play about the ephemerality of human existence.

At heart, theatre is simply one group of people in a room trying to connect to another group of people in that same room. All around Louisville and the surrounding areas, this sacred exchange is taking place; in venues large and small, with extravagant production values or with the barest minimum of sets and costumes, executed by trained professionals or by amateurs driven by passion to devote long hours to it for little or no pay - it is ALL theatre. It is ALL theatre worth celebrating. - Arts-Louisville Managing Editor Keith Waits in his opening remarks.

BWW Review: Orlando-An Unexpected Trandsformation

There are a lot of superlatives that have been thrown around about the World Renowned Kristin Chenoweth: Stunning, personable, fun, entertaining. All are true and she demonstrated all of those traits when she came to Louisville for a second time and performed with our Louisville Orchestra under the baton of the remarkable Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

Louisville Playwright Wins Top Writing Award at SETC

History That Speaks To The Moment

You Will Feel Like Flying

PNC Broadway in Louisville fills the Kentucky Center this week with the current tour of the 1993 Broadway hit Beauty and the Beast, the stage version of the 1991 Disney animated movie. The opening night audience included many family groups who clearly were fans of the movie.

Amy Herzog's Pulitzer Prize finalist script, as you may have guessed by the title, is a story of long journeys - of physical distance and of years. An earthy, 21-year old, Leo, shows up at his grandmother's Greenwich Village apartment in the middle of the night, seeking another place to crash on his cross-country bicycle trip, which inadvertently ends on this night, as he ends up staying with her for several weeks and the two of them strike up a newfound friendship.

BWW LOUISVILLE YEAR END REVIEW: What We Saw On Stage This Year

See H.M.S. Pinafore From The Pillow Pit

Louisville playwright Brian Walker's CPR on the Lost Continent is the winner of the Kentucky Theatre Association's 7th Annual Roots of the Bluegrass New Play Festival. The Award was announced at Friday evening's staged reading and award ceremony at Western Kentucky University, this year's host of KTA's conference. KTA board member Kathi E.B. Ellis directed the reading of CPR.