KTC Chooses Humana As One Of The Top Spring Festivals

The Kentucky Tourism Council (KTC) has chosen Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays as one of the Top 10 Spring Festivals and Events alongside other popular events like the Kentucky Derby Festival and Abbey Road on the River.

Judges decided the seasonal Top 10 list based on nominations place by KTC members across Kentucky. Criteria for judging included popularity of the event, its impact on the local tourism economy as well as cultural and historical significance. The entire Top 10 list is in the April issue of Kentucky Monthly and posted on KTC's website at http://enews.tourky.com/?page_id=389.

The 33rd Humana Festival of New American Plays is going on now through April 11. The internationally renowned new play festival is the oldest and longest event of its kind in the country and celebrates the genius and diversity of contemporary playwrights by presenting a rotating repertory of up to ten new works that incorporate a wide spectrum of themes, theatrical forms and styles of dramatic literature. Theatre lovers flock to the Humana Festival in hopes of discovering the next Pulitzer Prize winner, blockbuster film or Broadway hit. Weekend tourist packages and hotel discounts are available.

There are six full-length plays that are a part of this year's Humana Festival: Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry adapted for the stage by Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel from the writing of Wendell Berry, Absalom by Zoe Kazan, Under Construction by Charles L. Mee, Slasher by Allison Moore, Ameriville by UNIVERSES (Gamal Abdel Chasten, Mildred Ruiz, William Ruiz aka Ninja and Steven Sapp), and The Hard Weather Boating Party by Naomi Wallace. A comic anthology, titled BRINK!, is written by Lydia Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and Deborah Stein. And, finally, a bill of three ten minute plays : On The Porch One Crisp Spring Morning by Alex Dremann, 3:59am: a drag race for two actors by Marco Ramirez and Roanoke by Michael Lew ?music and lyrics by Matt Schatz.

TICKETS
Tickets are still available by calling the box office at 502-584-1205 or online at ActorsTheatre.org.