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The Ain't I A Women Playfest is one of the most ambitious theatre initiatives to be birthed in Louisville; a call to women playwrights of color for original short plays that speak, as new plays must, to the time in which they are written.
I have described Baby Horse Theatre as Avant-garde, and while the term is apt, it also is limiting in the way that all such terms prescribe how we approach art.
Theatre always begins as a mystery.
So much depends on identity during youth and adolescence.
David Clark's gods play wants desperately to be a movie, and it could very well be adapted as such with little difficulty.
Every year, more than 2 million kids in America will face a period of homelessness.
Among the greatest of the plays written by William Shakespeare, there are several titular roles that are each a veritable Mt.
America since the 2016 election has provoked no small amount of questioning.
Now comes the third chapter in director Amy Attaway's 'Game of Kings' series, which began with Richard II in 2017, followed by Henry IV, Part One a year ago, and will finish with Henry V in the summer of 2020.
Edward Albee has a spurious reputation for writing difficult, inaccessible plays.
Hamilton is a show whose impact extended well beyond the Great White Way and into the larger culture almost immediately; you have to have literally lived under a rock to have escaped awareness of this revisionist take on early United States history.
Sure, the classics and the standard favorites are fun but watching a new work gain footing for the first time is a thrill.
There is something special about this time of year.
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.
Unless you have lived under a rock or somehow managed to stay asleep since 2016, there is a lot of anger in the air, and rightfully so.
For an artist, personal and professional development should go hand in hand.
Why start a theatre company? Louisville already hosts a healthy roster of theatre companies, most of them run by people finding precious hours to make the commitment outside of a full-time job.
Yonkers and Harmonia Gardens swept into town on Tuesday evening to a packed Whitney Hall.
Is Henry V the most accessible of William Shakespeare's History plays? There is a good argument for Richard III, but whatever the political underpinnings of any individual production, King Henry is heroic but complex; the man we want to be.
It was not too long ago that Commonwealth Theatre Center completed the Shakespeare canon of plays.
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