Victor Jory News

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the line-up of events that comprise the annual College Days Weekend as part of the 36th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. This year, College Days Weekend is slated for March 16 - 18, as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays that runs February 26 -April 1, 2012.

In the tradition of such yuletide yarns as The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel and, Don We Now MORE Gay Apparel, comes GAYS IN TOYLAND, a brand-new Pandora holiday production that will transport you back in time to those oh-so-magical childhood moments when dreams of all things wonderful waiting beneath the Christmas tree occupied your minds for months!

In the tradition of such yuletide yarns as The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel and, Don We Now MORE Gay Apparel, comes GAYS IN TOYLAND, a brand-new Pandora holiday production that will transport you back in time to those oh-so-magical childhood moments when dreams of all things wonderful waiting beneath the Christmas tree occupied your minds for months!

In the tradition of such yuletide yarns as The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Don We Now Our Gay Apparel and, Don We Now MORE Gay Apparel, comes GAYS IN TOYLAND, a brand-new Pandora holiday production that will transport you back in time to those oh-so-magical childhood moments when dreams of all things wonderful waiting beneath the Christmas tree occupied your minds for months!

Actors Theatre of Louisville is thrilled to announce the lineup of the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. This year's Festival will feature 10 world premieres that celebrate 14 vital voices in American theatre today. Described by Gordon Cox at Variety as "one of the most prominent showcases of fully staged new plays in the U.S." the Festival is a driving force of new play development in America and attracts a national and international audience of nearly 40,000 theatre professionals and enthusiasts each year. This season, the Humana Festival runs February 26 through April 1, 2012. Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein states,"I am incredibly proud of our artistic team and the selections in the 2012 Humana Festival. The plays that we announce today will join a prestigious catalogue of work we have launched into the American theatre repertoire. The Humana Festival remains a standout event in the American theatre, drawing local, national and international attention and attracting arts professionals and theatre enthusiasts from across the country. Last year's Humana Festival boasted more than 100 performances and attracted visitors from 44 states and 9 countries. We are extremely grateful to the Humana Foundation, whose commitment to support the Festival's mission is unmatched.' This year's Festival showcases seven full-length plays, including a play by five writers commissioned by Actors Theatre and featuring the Acting Apprentice Company, and an evening of three ten-minute plays (yet to be announced). The productions will run in rotating repertory in Actors Theatre's 633-seat Pamela Brown Auditorium, 318-seat Bingham Theatre and 159-seat Victor Jory Theatre. "We are tremendously excited to support an array of remarkable voices in this festival lineup that brings together a diverse collection of aesthetics, cultural perspectives and original stories," remarked Amy Wegener, Actors Theatre's Literary Director."This constellation of amazing playwrights includes a mix of men and women, experiences that range from the suburban Midwest to the Middle East, veterans of Broadway and writers who'll see their work produced on this scale for the first time. The Humana Festival's commitment to production as a vital stage of new play development, with the writer's imagination as our compass, allows the creative teams to fully engage with the possibilities of the plays' rich theatrical worlds-and for audiences to share in that discovery." Idris Goodwin, who will make his Humana Festival debut, said, "How We Got On launches my most recent theatrical endeavor: to pay homage to Hip Hop in the Midwest, the culture that shaped me as a writer. What greater affirmation than to participate in this country's most essential new play festival.' 'I'm tremendously grateful and thrilled that my odd play about a vampire with second thoughts will premiere at the Humana Festival," said playwright Greg Kotis on having his play selected. "I've had the honor to participate in the Festival twice before, first as a co-author of BRINK! (an anthology show written for and performed by Actor Theatre's Acting Apprentice Company), and then as a performer in and an author of one of the ten-minute plays. The Humana Festival continues to be one of the essential events of our national theatre season, and I'm very happy to be a part of it once again.' Mona Mansour said, "I am thrilled to be invited to be in this year's festival, where so many plays I admire were launched. And I am equally thrilled to be there with Mark Wing-Davey, who directed the very first reading of The Hour of Feeling at the Public Theater." This year's festival program will feature (in chronological order): Seven full-length world premieres, including The Veri**on Play by Lisa Kron How We Got On by Idris Goodwin The Hour of Feeling by Mona Mansour Eat Your Heart Out by Courtney Baron Death Tax by Lucas Hnath Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards by Greg Kotis Oh, Gastronomy! by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho and Matt Schatz, performed by the Actors Theatre Acting Apprentice Company. An evening of three Ten-Minute Plays (to be announced) The 2012 Humana Festival schedule also features special industry weekend packages, networking opportunities, discussions and soiree events, making Louisville the place to be in American theatre this spring. For more information on individual plays, see below. Actors Theatre celebrates the 36th Annual Humana Festival with its underwriter The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana, Inc. Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. Editor: The involvement of The Humana Foundation in the Humana Festival of New American Plays is very important to us. We would greatly appreciate inclusion of its participation in your coverage. The Humana Festival represents the largest and longest-running active partnership between a corporation and a theatre in the United States.

Pandora Productions unveils its 2011-2012 Season this Thursday evening, September 8, with A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, a tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with one's identity.

Pandora Productions 2011-2012 Season bows Thursday evening, September 8, with A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, a tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with one's identity.

Pandora Productions has announced the lineup for its upcoming 2011-2012 theatrical season, a new season that promises to be timely, compelling, surprising...everything and then some from the theatre company that is proud to be the source for one-of-a-kind LGBTQ productions in Kentuckiana.

This is the final day to catch the three great plays in the Young American Shakespeare Festival, presented by Walden Theatre. Othello, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra run in repertory through May 22 at the Victor Jory Theatre at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

This is the final week to catch the three great plays in the Young American Shakespeare Festival, presented by Walden Theatre.

Walden Theatre is proud to announce the annual Young American Shakespeare Festival.

Walden Theatre is proud to announce the annual Young American Shakespeare Festival.

Film critic Dave Kehr's new book When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade, published by the University of Chicago Press, is a collection of his reviews written between 1974 and 1986 in the Chicago Reader.

Walden Theatre will conclude its 2010-2011 season with the 2011 Young American Shakespeare Festival. This annual showcase presents three Shakespeare plays performed in repertory by Walden's advanced students. This year's plays will run from May 12 to May 22.

Get ready for Pandora's bawdiest, naughtiest production of 2010, MEASURE FOR PLEASURE opening this Thursday evening, December 9, at the Victor Jory Theatre at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

It's not even Thanksgiving yet but we've had enough of carols on the radio, decorations in every store since October, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire to last us until the New Year. For a completely different holiday experience, join Pandora Productions this December for the dirtiest words soon to be on everyone's lips as we present David Grimm's MEASURE FOR PLEASURE. As The Washington Post recently wrote, 'Imagine a play by the 18th century equivalents of Mel Brooks, John Waters and the folks at Frederick's of Hollywood.'

Get ready for Pandora's bawdiest, naughtiest production of 2010, MEASURE FOR PLEASURE opening this Thursday evening, December 9, at the Victor Jory Theatre at Actors Theatre of Louisville.