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There is something special about this time of year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For an artist, personal and professional development should go hand in hand.

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.

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?'

The Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust, a collection of more than 60 restored instruments played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, will visit Louisville for 10 days of special programs and events, October 17-26, 2019.

I remember studying the Scottish play during my junior year in high school.

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.

It was not too long ago that Commonwealth Theatre Center completed the Shakespeare canon of plays.

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.

Yonkers and Harmonia Gardens swept into town on Tuesday evening to a packed Whitney Hall.

Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts is proud to present the Noel Coward comedy of FALLEN ANGELS, and the farewell production of CHURCH GIRLS: THE MUSICAL.

Hello, Dolly! is a true american classic, and is treated by some as the perfect musical comedy.

Old Forester's Paristown Hall, Louisville's newest state-of-the-art standing room venue, has announced a roster of performances for its opening in late July.

The Kentucky Center presents Iyanla Vanzant: Acts of Faith Remix Tour on Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 8 p.

tars of the show and co-conceivers of this new production, Lauren Molina (who plays Lucy) and Nick Cearley (who plays Linus) took the time to answer a few questions about the show.

Tonight, Louisville was awash with orange-the color of creativity-in celebration of the 2019 Awards in the Arts, presented by Kindred Healthcare and Joy Mangano, and hosted by The Fund for the Arts, Churchill Downs and the Lawrence Family Foundation.

The Kentucky Center presents Steve Earle & The Dukes on Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 7:30 p.

The Carnegie is pleased to announce the cast and production team for AMERICAN IDIOT, playing weekends August 10-25, 2019.

For decades, the battle has raged: Beatles or Stones? Through their heyday, fans accused London's Rolling Stones of stealing ideas -- even entire albums - from their Liverpool counterparts.