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Lee Buckholz To Retire As Producing Artistic Director Of Derby Dinner Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 2, 2025

Derby Dinner Playhouse longtime company member and Producing Artistic Director, Lee Buckholz, will retire effective March 1, 2025, following an accomplished 35-year career at the Playhouse. Learn more about Buckholz's career.

Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards; Chicken Coop Theatre's GREY GARDENS Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - Dec 27, 2021

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Final Weeks To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards; The Chicken Coop Theatre's GREY GARDENS Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - Dec 20, 2021

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

STRICTLY COME DANCING Announces Three-Part Series From BBC Studios
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2020

In this three-part BBC One series (3x60'), Strictly Come Dancing will remember some of the nation's favourite moments from the show's history in a brand new way. Viewers will be able to enjoy the very best moments from Strictly's themed weeks - Movies, Musicals and Blackpool - with the opportunity to get involved themselves!

BWW Feature: IS ART LOST TO US IN THIS MOMENT? at Actors Theatre Of Louisville
by Keith Waits - Mar 17, 2020

Some art demands you be in the room. Theatre and visual art certainly, and while we can listen to brilliant recordings of orchestral music; the thrill of the concert hall still commands attention.

Derby Dinner Playhouse Presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
by Stephi Wild - Feb 13, 2020

Derby Dinner Playhouse will open the musical A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD on February 22, 2020 as part of their Children's Musical Theatre Series. Public performances run February 22, 29, March 7, 14, 16, 21, & 28, 2020. For ticket information please call 812-288-8281 or visit www.derbydinner.com.

BBC Announces Two New Entertainment Programs From Gordon Ramsay and Oti Mabuse
by Kaitlin Milligan - Jan 16, 2020

Following a jam packed year of entertainment on the BBC, Kate Phillips, Controller of BBC Entertainment, has today announced two brand new BBC One programmes Gordon Ramsay's Future Food Stars and Oti's South African Odyssey, alongside the return of BBC Two's The Ranganation and BBC Three's Angels Of The North.

BOEING BOEING Comes to Derby Dinner Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - Jan 7, 2020

Derby Dinner Playhouse will present the comedy BOEING, BOEING, opening January 8 and running through February 16, 2020. For ticket information please call 812-288-8281.

LITTLE MIX THE SEARCH is coming to BBC One in 2020
by Kaitlin Milligan - Oct 17, 2019

Global superstars Little Mix are on the search for incredibly talented singers to become members of all-female, all-male or mixed bands in a brand new entertainment series for BBC One.

BWW Review: THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY at Derby Dinner Playhouse
by Keith Waits - May 30, 2019

The Derby Dinner Playhouse certainly knows what their audience wants, and as a result, we get another in the long line of Southern-fried comedies from what seems to be their go-to playwriting team, the trio known collectively as Jones Hope Wooten. That's not a dig on the Playhouse; Jones Hope Wooten's plays are not particularly smart, but they are usually quite funny and you can tell the actors are enjoying being in them as much as we enjoy watching them.

Derby Dinner Playhouse Presents THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY
by A.A. Cristi - May 23, 2019

Derby Dinner Playhouse will open their 45th anniversary season with the hit comedy THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY, opening May 22 and running through June 30, 2019.  For ticket information please call 812-288-8281 or visit derbydinner.com.

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES to Play Derby Dinner
by Julie Musbach - Feb 19, 2019

Derby Dinner Playhouse will open THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES on February 23, 2019 as part of their Children's Musical Theatre Series.

Derby Dinner Playhouse Will Warm the Winter Nights with A VELVETEEN RABBIT CHRISTMAS
by Julie Musbach - Nov 13, 2018

Derby Dinner Playhouse will open the holiday musical A VELVETEEN RABBIT CHRISTMAS on November 17, 2018 as part of their Children's Musical Theatre Series.

WEB OF MURDER Opens This Week at Derby Dinner Playhouse
by Julie Musbach - Oct 2, 2018

Derby Dinner Playhouse will present the murderous tale, WEB OF MURDER, opening October 3 and running through November 11, 2018.

BWW Review: RISE UP, OH MEN at Derby Dinner Playhouse
by Keith Waits - Sep 4, 2018

Let's return to the farmlands of Minnesota and visit some of the funniest Lutheran ladies that have ever graced a stage: the Church Basement Ladies. 'Rise Up, O Men' is the fifth musical addition to the continuing stories inspired from a book by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, entitled Growing Up Lutheran. Written by Greta Grosch, who was the original Mavis when CBL first appeared in 2005, this iteration allows a few of the men in the lives of the church to have a bit of the spotlight.

Derby Dinner Playhouse Presents RISE UP, O MEN
by BWW News Desk - Aug 22, 2018

Derby Dinner Playhouse will present the brand new musical comedy RISE UP, O MEN, opening August 22 and running through September 30, 2018. For ticket information please call 812-288-8281 or visit www.derbydinner.com

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS Approaches Opening at DDP
by Julie Musbach - May 29, 2018

Derby Dinner Playhouse will present the hit comedy OVER THE RIVER & THROUGH THE WOODS, opening May 30 and running through July 8, 2018.

THE BUTTON Game Show Arrives On BBC One Friday, April 20
by Macon Prickett - Apr 4, 2018

From the creators of Taskmaster, The Button will arrive in a home near you this April on BBC One.

Derby Dinner Playhouse Presents CURIOUS GEORGE: THE GOLDEN MEATBALL
by Stephi Wild - Feb 21, 2018

Derby Dinner Playhouse will open CURIOUS GEORGE: THE GOLDEN MEATBALL on February 24, 2018 as part of their Children's Musical Theatre Series. Public performances run February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 19, 24, March 31, 2018. For ticket information please call 812-288-8281 or visit www.derbydinner.com

Vote For the 2017 BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards; Just One Week Left!
by Alan Henry - Dec 22, 2017

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017. Nominations were completely reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended October 31, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors.