Keith Waits is a native of Louisville who works at Louisville Visual Art during the days, including being the host of Artebella on the Radio on WXOX 97.1 FM / ARTxFM, but spends most of his evenings indulging his taste for theatre, music and visual arts. His work has appeared in Pure Uncut Candy, TheatreLouisville, and Louisville Mojo. He is now Managing Editor for Arts-Louisville.com.
That the 1969 riots at the center of Ike Holter's play are identified as 'Stonewall' is a neat metaphorical turn of phrase, even if it is happenstance.
Some Kinda There are iconic musicals that always seem to pop on some local company's schedule on a regular basis, but what of the lesser known shows that don't enjoy quite the same level of success?
The best collaboration happens organically, perhaps an arguable point, but this production of Just Like Us, co-produced by Looking for Lilith and Teatro Tercera Llamada seems such a natural pairing, less an innovation than the appropriate result of relationships built over time.
A young man is raised with the expectation that he will follow in his father's footsteps, working in the trade and carrying on an important tradition, but instead, he wants to follow his own path and become an artist.
On February 25, in a ceremony held at Spalding University's Columbia Theatre Ballroom, Arts-Louisville Managing Editor Keith Waits presided over an awards presentation for excellence in theatre in Louisville and the surrounding area.
There are many thoughts about life after death, most tied to one organized religion or another, but there is one less denominational fantasy afterlife.
Class conflict, the value of beauty, and the ties that bind us are just a few of the themes running through Theatre [502]'s moving new production Sergio's Museum.
In his program notes for this production, director Charlie Sexton states, 'Sometimes we need a night of theatre where pretense, deep subtext and the desire to change the world is stripped away.