Photo Flash: WEST SIDE STORY Starring Colton Ryan And Evy Ortiz Opens At The Lexington Theatre Co
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2019
The Lexington Theatre Company opened their fifth summer season with West Side Story, July 11-14 at The Lexington Opera House.
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2019
The Lexington Theatre Company opened their fifth summer season with West Side Story, July 11-14 at The Lexington Opera House.
BWW Review: WEST SIDE STORY at The Lexington Theatre Company
by Taylor Clemons - July 12, 2019
Colton Ryan and Evy Ortiz in West Side Story. Photo courtesy of The Lexington Theatre Company.
by Taylor Clemons - July 12, 2019
Colton Ryan and Evy Ortiz in West Side Story. Photo courtesy of The Lexington Theatre Company.
Seven Questions with Colton Ryan of WEST SIDE STORY at The Lexington Theatre Company
by Taylor Clemons - July 10, 2019
Broadway's Colton Ryan talks returning to his roots this weekend as he opens West Side Story with The Lexington Theatre Company
by Taylor Clemons - July 10, 2019
Broadway's Colton Ryan talks returning to his roots this weekend as he opens West Side Story with The Lexington Theatre Company
Colton Ryan and Evy Ortiz Will Lead WEST SIDE STORY At The Lexington Theatre Company
by BWW News Desk - July 10, 2019
The Lexington Theatre Company opens their fifth summer season, combining 'Today's Broadway Stars and Tomorrow's Broadway Hopefuls' with West Side Story, July 11-14 at The Lexington Opera House. The educational mission of 'The Lex' centers around training the next generation of musical theatre artists, as college students from around the country perform alongside and learn from seasoned pros.
by BWW News Desk - July 10, 2019
The Lexington Theatre Company opens their fifth summer season, combining 'Today's Broadway Stars and Tomorrow's Broadway Hopefuls' with West Side Story, July 11-14 at The Lexington Opera House. The educational mission of 'The Lex' centers around training the next generation of musical theatre artists, as college students from around the country perform alongside and learn from seasoned pros.
BWW Review: HOMEFREE at Commonwealth Theatre Center
by Keith Waits - July 08, 2019
Every year, more than 2 million kids in America will face a period of homelessness. This from Covenant House, the largest privately funded provider in the Americas of shelter, food, immediate crisis care, and an array of other services to homeless and runaway youth. That is a pretty sobering statistic, even more so when you consider that the majority, if not all, of that 2 million struggles in silence, unseen.
by Keith Waits - July 08, 2019
Every year, more than 2 million kids in America will face a period of homelessness. This from Covenant House, the largest privately funded provider in the Americas of shelter, food, immediate crisis care, and an array of other services to homeless and runaway youth. That is a pretty sobering statistic, even more so when you consider that the majority, if not all, of that 2 million struggles in silence, unseen.
CHURCH GIRLS, The Musical, Comes to the Commonwealth Theatre Company
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2019
There are six men and one musician playing 23 characters. Interested yet? All are comedic experts whose physical comedy rivals Broadway's best actors! Now I've got your attention? This is the hilarious musical, CHURCH GIRLS, running at the Commonwealth Theatre Company in Highland Heights, KY. This show embodies the silliness of a NUNSENSE, but advances a gutsy challenge to political correctness similar to Broadway's BOOK OF MORMON.
by BWW News Desk - July 07, 2019
There are six men and one musician playing 23 characters. Interested yet? All are comedic experts whose physical comedy rivals Broadway's best actors! Now I've got your attention? This is the hilarious musical, CHURCH GIRLS, running at the Commonwealth Theatre Company in Highland Heights, KY. This show embodies the silliness of a NUNSENSE, but advances a gutsy challenge to political correctness similar to Broadway's BOOK OF MORMON.
BWW Review: THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR at Kentucky Shakespeare
by Keith Waits - July 02, 2019
Among the greatest of the plays written by William Shakespeare, there are several titular roles that are each a veritable Mt. Everest for actors; Charlton Heston called them the 'Man-killers', and I doubt they are any easier for women. Of these, the monarch named Lear stands as a particularly daunting challenge. It has often been said that if you are old enough to truly understand the unique blend of aging, madness, and arrogance required to play it, you may be too old to pull it off onstage.
by Keith Waits - July 02, 2019
Among the greatest of the plays written by William Shakespeare, there are several titular roles that are each a veritable Mt. Everest for actors; Charlton Heston called them the 'Man-killers', and I doubt they are any easier for women. Of these, the monarch named Lear stands as a particularly daunting challenge. It has often been said that if you are old enough to truly understand the unique blend of aging, madness, and arrogance required to play it, you may be too old to pull it off onstage.
NKU Commonwealth Theatre Presents CHURCH GIRLS The Musical
by BWW News Desk - June 26, 2019
Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts is proud to present the locally-written campy, cheeky, audacious musical comedy of CHURCH GIRLS: THE MUSICAL, running July 5-21 in the NKU Robert & Rosemary Stauss Theatre. A buffet dinner will be served in the NKU SOTA Art Gallery prior to performances.
by BWW News Desk - June 26, 2019
Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts is proud to present the locally-written campy, cheeky, audacious musical comedy of CHURCH GIRLS: THE MUSICAL, running July 5-21 in the NKU Robert & Rosemary Stauss Theatre. A buffet dinner will be served in the NKU SOTA Art Gallery prior to performances.
BWW Review: WHEN FISHIES RAIN DOWN FROM THE SKY at Bunbury Theatre
by Keith Waits - June 24, 2019
America since the 2016 election has provoked no small amount of questioning. How could it ever have come to this? Beyond the immediacy of partisanship, the GOP has set about dismantling landmark legislation such as the Voting Rights Act. It has sent us reeling back in time to reexamine modern history for clues, and also to seek comfort in moments in which we felt secure in the march of progressiveness.
by Keith Waits - June 24, 2019
America since the 2016 election has provoked no small amount of questioning. How could it ever have come to this? Beyond the immediacy of partisanship, the GOP has set about dismantling landmark legislation such as the Voting Rights Act. It has sent us reeling back in time to reexamine modern history for clues, and also to seek comfort in moments in which we felt secure in the march of progressiveness.
BWW Review: HENRY IV, PART TWO at Kentucky Shakespeare
by Keith Waits - June 19, 2019
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.
by Keith Waits - June 19, 2019
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.
Photo Flash: Kentucky Shakespeare Presents HENRY IV, PART II
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2019
Henry IV, Part II explores the precarious friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff. The play is the third installment in the "Game of Kings" series, which wraps up with Henry V in 2020, the Festival's 60th season.
by BWW News Desk - June 14, 2019
Henry IV, Part II explores the precarious friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff. The play is the third installment in the "Game of Kings" series, which wraps up with Henry V in 2020, the Festival's 60th season.
PAW PATROL LIVE! RACE TO THE RESCUE Comes to Louisville
by BWW News Desk - June 11, 2019
No job is too big, no pup is too small! Nickelodeon and VStar Entertainment Group present PAW Patrol Live! "Race to the Rescue," an action-packed, music-filled production, presented by Pedigree. The heroic pups from the top-rated animated preschool series PAW Patrol, produced by Spin Master Entertainment, will visit The Kentucky Center, December 27-29! Tickets for all five performances are on sale to the public June 21, 2019 and can be purchased at www.PAWPatrolLive.com.
by BWW News Desk - June 11, 2019
No job is too big, no pup is too small! Nickelodeon and VStar Entertainment Group present PAW Patrol Live! "Race to the Rescue," an action-packed, music-filled production, presented by Pedigree. The heroic pups from the top-rated animated preschool series PAW Patrol, produced by Spin Master Entertainment, will visit The Kentucky Center, December 27-29! Tickets for all five performances are on sale to the public June 21, 2019 and can be purchased at www.PAWPatrolLive.com.
BWW Review: THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? at The Liminal Playhouse
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
Edward Albee has a spurious reputation for writing difficult, inaccessible plays. While the esteemed playwright is usually challenging to mainstream audiences, The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? functions surprisingly well as domestic farce. It is often flat out funny.
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
Edward Albee has a spurious reputation for writing difficult, inaccessible plays. While the esteemed playwright is usually challenging to mainstream audiences, The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia? functions surprisingly well as domestic farce. It is often flat out funny.
BWW Review: HAMILTON at Broadway In Louisville
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
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. In 2016, Hamilton received a record-setting 16 Tony nominations, won 11, including Best Musical, and was also the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
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. In 2016, Hamilton received a record-setting 16 Tony nominations, won 11, including Best Musical, and was also the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
BWW Review: NOTE at Looking For Lilith Theatre Company
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
Sure, the classics and the standard favorites are fun but watching a new work gain footing for the first time is a thrill. Looking for Lilith's current production is a new work by local writer, Eli Keel, simply called Note. Intimate, honest, and real, the play explores mental health issues with integrity as we peer behind-the-scenes of a one-woman show.
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
Sure, the classics and the standard favorites are fun but watching a new work gain footing for the first time is a thrill. Looking for Lilith's current production is a new work by local writer, Eli Keel, simply called Note. Intimate, honest, and real, the play explores mental health issues with integrity as we peer behind-the-scenes of a one-woman show.
BWW Review: AS YOU LIKE IT at Kentucky Shakespeare
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
There is something special about this time of year. The school schedule is winding down, the sun shines a bit longer in the day, fireflies come out of their hibernation and the Kentucky Shakespeare Company begins their season. This year will mark the venerable company's 59th Anniversary and they are still going strong. So what magic is weaved that keeps this program going year after year? The answer is quite simple really and can be summed up in a few words: imagination, reinvention, education, and dedication. All of these were on full display in the season opener of As You Like It.
by Keith Waits - June 10, 2019
There is something special about this time of year. The school schedule is winding down, the sun shines a bit longer in the day, fireflies come out of their hibernation and the Kentucky Shakespeare Company begins their season. This year will mark the venerable company's 59th Anniversary and they are still going strong. So what magic is weaved that keeps this program going year after year? The answer is quite simple really and can be summed up in a few words: imagination, reinvention, education, and dedication. All of these were on full display in the season opener of As You Like It.
Kentucky Shakespeare Awarded 2 NEA Grants
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2019
Arts Midwest (Minneapolis, MN) announced last week the recipients of $1 million in Shakespeare in American Communities: Schools grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies from 25 states and the District of Columbia. For the third consecutive year, Kentucky Shakespeare has been selected as one of the recipients of a $25,000 award. The grant will support Kentucky Shakespeare's HAMLET tour across the states of Kentucky and Indiana to at least 35 schools in 2020, including urban areas and far-reaching rural areas of Appalachia. The student experience will also include comprehensive curriculum guides, in-depth discussions, and workshops.
by BWW News Desk - June 06, 2019
Arts Midwest (Minneapolis, MN) announced last week the recipients of $1 million in Shakespeare in American Communities: Schools grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies from 25 states and the District of Columbia. For the third consecutive year, Kentucky Shakespeare has been selected as one of the recipients of a $25,000 award. The grant will support Kentucky Shakespeare's HAMLET tour across the states of Kentucky and Indiana to at least 35 schools in 2020, including urban areas and far-reaching rural areas of Appalachia. The student experience will also include comprehensive curriculum guides, in-depth discussions, and workshops.
TheatreFest! Announces Seventh Season Of Plays
by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2019
TheatreFest! the Summer Theatre at Lindsey Wilson College is gearing up for its most exciting season yet! The seventh season of TheatreFest! will include four major productions and its second summer of IMAGINE! Youth Theatre, the summer camp that will produce one of the plays in the summer season.
by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2019
TheatreFest! the Summer Theatre at Lindsey Wilson College is gearing up for its most exciting season yet! The seventh season of TheatreFest! will include four major productions and its second summer of IMAGINE! Youth Theatre, the summer camp that will produce one of the plays in the summer season.
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN Kicks Off TheatreFest! 2019
by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2019
TheatreFest! the summer theatre at Lindsey Wilson College, 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY, will present the gospel musical Smoke on the Mountain May 30, June 2, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15, & 16.
by BWW News Desk - May 31, 2019
TheatreFest! the summer theatre at Lindsey Wilson College, 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY, will present the gospel musical Smoke on the Mountain May 30, June 2, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15, & 16.
BWW Review: THE P***Y GRABBER PLAYS at Eve Theatre Company
by Keith Waits - May 30, 2019
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. Eve Theater's The P***y Grabber Plays takes the point of view of eight survivors of sexual harassment, their struggle, and bravery in the shadow of one of the most notorious Presidential elections in American history. This incredibly relevant production is a celebration of these brave survivors and the incredible stories they share.
by Keith Waits - May 30, 2019
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. Eve Theater's The P***y Grabber Plays takes the point of view of eight survivors of sexual harassment, their struggle, and bravery in the shadow of one of the most notorious Presidential elections in American history. This incredibly relevant production is a celebration of these brave survivors and the incredible stories they share.
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.
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.
BWW Previews: OSCAR AND FELIX/FUNDRAISING CABARET at Theatre Reprise/The Chicken Coop
by Keith Waits - May 28, 2019
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. Against the odds, two veteran actor/directors are starting new initiatives in the community: Jason Cooper (Pandora Productions, CenterStage) is calling his venture The Chicken Coop Theatre Company, while Craig Nolan Highley (Wayward Actors Company, The Alley Theater, CenterStage) and Jeremy Guiterrez (Wayward Actors Company, The Alley Theater) have chosen the moniker, Theatre Reprise. (full disclosure: both Jason Cooper and Craig Nolan Highley are content contributors to Arts-Louisville.com)
by Keith Waits - May 28, 2019
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. Against the odds, two veteran actor/directors are starting new initiatives in the community: Jason Cooper (Pandora Productions, CenterStage) is calling his venture The Chicken Coop Theatre Company, while Craig Nolan Highley (Wayward Actors Company, The Alley Theater, CenterStage) and Jeremy Guiterrez (Wayward Actors Company, The Alley Theater) have chosen the moniker, Theatre Reprise. (full disclosure: both Jason Cooper and Craig Nolan Highley are content contributors to Arts-Louisville.com)
BWW Previews: NOTE at Looking For Lilith Theatre Company
by Keith Waits - May 28, 2019
For an artist, personal and professional development should go hand in hand. Revealing one's innermost self may be not be required, except for maybe some people it inevitably is, and there is a long critical tradition of deconstructing works of art for biographical underpinnings, so if you are an artist, you should expect it.
by Keith Waits - May 28, 2019
For an artist, personal and professional development should go hand in hand. Revealing one's innermost self may be not be required, except for maybe some people it inevitably is, and there is a long critical tradition of deconstructing works of art for biographical underpinnings, so if you are an artist, you should expect it.
Derby Dinner Playhouse Presents THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY
by BWW News Desk - 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.
by BWW News Desk - 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 Liminal Playhouse Closes Its Fourth Season With Edward Albee's THE GOAT
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2019
Artistic director Tony Prince and producing director Richard McGrew are excited to close The Liminal Playhouse's fourth season with Edward Albee's 'The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia?'
by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2019
Artistic director Tony Prince and producing director Richard McGrew are excited to close The Liminal Playhouse's fourth season with Edward Albee's 'The Goat Or, Who is Sylvia?'
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