Henry Clay News

Pandora Productions will continue the 2023-2024 Season with THE INHERITANCE by Matthew Lopez, a two part, sweeping epic covering decades of LGBTQ+ history.

CHAGALL IN SCHOOL, a dramatic comedy, presents the story of Marc Chagall and the social change after the Russian Revolution. This Louisville premiere explores art, connection, and freedom.

Pandora Productions brings Jonathan Larson's award-winning musical production of RENT to The Henry Clay with performances November 3 - 19.

Pandora Productions has announced the retirement of long-time Producing Artistic Director and actor Michael J. Drury.  After nearly 25 years at the helm of the critically acclaimed Louisville theatre company Pandora Productions, Michael J. Drury is stepping down from his role to retire at the end of the 2023-24 season.

ACT Louisville and Pandora Productions are currently presenting the regional premiere of The Prom through August 26th. Check out the production photos here!

Bunbury Theatre presents The Weir by Conor Mcpherson ​at The Henry Clay Theatre in October. The performance is set for Friday, October 13, 2023 at 7:30PM. Tickets are $12-22.

Performances and the cast have been revealed for the regional premiere of the musical The Prom. Each performance at The Henry Clay Theatre August 11 - 26 will include a community Prom experience complete with refreshments for sale, photo opportunities, a Prom royalty selection, along with dancing before the show and at intermission.

Pandora Productions, Louisville's only theatre company dedicated and most trusted to tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, proudly closes the 2022-2023 Season with IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove with music by Barbara Anselmi. Pandora's Artistic Director calls this the quintessential American Musical theatre show.

Quantum Theatre will conclude its 2022-2023 season with Jennifer Chang's fresh take on Faust with The Devil Is A Lie opening April 7 at The Tenant Innovation Center in the Frick Building, 437 Grant Street in Pittsburgh.

Pandora Productions continues the 2022-2023 Season with GODSPELL, book by John Michael Tebelak, music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Based on the book of Matthew, GODSPELL was the first musical theatre offering from composer Stephen Schwartz who went on to write such well-known hits as Wicked, Pippin, and Children of Eden.

Pandora Productions, Louisville's only theatre company dedicated and most trusted to tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, continues the 2022-2023 Season with DOT by Coleman Domingo. DOT premiered in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre in 2015 to wide acclaim.

Pandora Productions, Louisville’s only theatre company dedicated and most trusted to tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, opens the 2022-2023 Season with THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE by award winning playwright Matthew Lopez.

Joe Calarco’s R&J re-imagines the classic story of history’s famous doomed lovers as a modern coming-of-age tale in this co-production between Kentucky Shakespeare and Pandora Productions, Louisville’s only theatre company exclusively dedicated to telling stories of LGBTQ+ communities.

Artistic Director Tony Prince and Producing Director Richard McGrew announce that The Liminal Playhouse is going out with a bang with its nineteenth Louisville premiere and final production: “Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness” by Anthony Neilson opening May 26. Written in 2008 but set in 1881, this play is the final performance of a Victorian theatre troupe led by an opium addict. An odd combination of melodrama, comedy, and fairy tale, it is a strange, and at times grotesque, exploration of loneliness, love, memory, the ephemeral nature of life and of theatre itself.

Los Angeles-based indie rock band Near Beer — Joey Siara (vocals, guitar), Brent Stranathan (drums), Jeremy Levy (bass, backup vocals) — have shared a brand new single entitled 'Yelling at a Dog.' It comes off their self-titled album. The band describes the album as a set of 'mini-anthems about insomnia, drinking, and human connection.'

Artistic Director Tony Prince and Producing Director Richard McGrew have announced the opening of “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage” by Sarah Ruhl on March 24.

Pandora Productions, Louisville’s only theatre company dedicated and most trusted to tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, proudly continues their 2021-2022 Season with HEAD OVER HEELS, conceived by and original book by Jeff Whitty, adapted by James Magruder, music and lyrics by the Go-Go's.

Pandora Productions, Louisville's only theatre company dedicated and most trusted to tell the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, proudly continues their 2021-2022 Season with a THE CAKE by acclaimed and awarded playwright and screenwriter Bekah Brunstetter (This Is Us). 

The 62nd season of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Central Park will run May 25-August 7, 2022 – the longest professional run in company history. The season will include productions of Twelfth Night, Richard III, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, plus the Globe Players professional training program with Much Ado About Nothing, and more.

Black Pearl Sings! will be performed at The Historic Dock Street Theatre next year. Performances will run March 9 - 27, 2022. The production is by Frank Higgins with direction by Henry Clay Middleton.