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Playwright Anne Washburn answers an apocalyptic hypothetical by turning to a major source of our modern cultural mortar in the darkly comic 'Mr. Burns, a post-electric play,' which receives its Louisville premiere this week from local champions of recent and relevant plays, Theatre [502].

'At The Vanishing Point' is a tribute to the drama of struggling to sanctify the ordinary. Iizuka brings together characters and stories that form the tissue of Butchertown's history while observing the awe-inspiring tragedy in how much is missed.

The latest project in StageOne's New Play Development Series will reach over 25,000 schoolchildren with a story that may well resonate with circumstances they face today - and open their eyes to possibilities they may never have imagined.

Tarell Alvin McCraney's "The Brothers Size" may be the closest thing the modern stage offers to a drama that approaches the level of ritual, transubstantiating the mythic into flesh, blood, words, and rhythms before our rapt eyes.

Fresh off a season of company-wide renewal and world-class theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare is bringing even more world-class productions to Louisville theaters. One slight difference: the theaters will be of the motion picture variety.

Louisvillians have made "A Christmas Carol" a holiday agenda item for two reasons: its quality, and its consistency.

"They may not be perfect, but they're family." This is the affirmation that's just as much a prison sentence at that heart of "Tribes," Nina Raine's socially-charged, densely-layered and devastatingly on-point drama now playing at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Sometimes within an ending are the seeds of a new beginning.

The old adage goes: It doesn't matter who is in the audience. Give the same performance every time. That rule paid dividends for Louisville native Neill Robertson as he reprised the role of Maurizio LeGrande, the flamboyant and militantly efficient event planner, in Pandora Productions' September production of "My Big Gay Italian Funeral."

Jason Robert Brown plays a narrative game within the tightly structured form of the musical to probe deep into the depths of a failed relationship.

Kentucky Shakespeare Producing Artistic Director Matt Wallace has announced adult auditions for the 2015 three-production professional season of 'The Tempest,' 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'Macbeth.'

Louisville's theater community is a writer-friendly place, and a new group is adding its efforts to the mix, with a focus as much on process as on product.

While it has put on a repertory of shows most professional playhouses would find ambitious - and been successful beyond the wildest dreams of what most theater artists will likely see in their careers - the method has grown to match the mission. Experience, age and passion have turned its into something its may only now be fully blossoming as: a full-blown theater company.

Four weeks into his new job, Robert Curran has a bit of a challenge. The native Australian has to get the lay of the land in his new home while hitting the ground running. He happens to be good on his feet.

For 2015, Matt Wallace and company want to make Kentucky Shakespeare a year-round affair.

The best sci fi, profound messages lay beneath the spectacle, and Wayward Actors Company will mine a choice piece of work when it presents Jerome Bixby's "The Man From Earth" Oct. 3-12 at The Bards Town.

A few years ago, in a different publication, I gave Actors Theatre's "Dracula" a somewhat mixed review. I didn't get it. Boy, do I get it now.

If you're looking for a common theme or idea around which Actors Theatre builds its season, you won't find one. At least not a conscious one, according to Artistic Director Les Waters.

There is an oh-so-subtle dramatic bed upon which rides one of the funniest evenings of theater I've had the joy to partake of in quite a while.

Louisville's resident classical theater company is getting a new face.