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Yelp and Actors Theatre offer a pre-show reception before ‘Circle Mirror...

Yelp and Actors Theatre have teamed up to offer a free pre-show reception before the Friday, Jan. 27, production of “Circle Mirror Transformation,” directed by Meredith McDonough, Actors Theatre’s...

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Actors Theatre announces 2017-18 season, including ‘Angels in America’

Actors Theatre has announced an ambitious 2017-18 season. Instead of Shakespeare, as has been usual over the past few seasons, the season opens with a modern classic, the 24-year-old “Angels in...

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Kickoff and preview: Humana Festival ‘leads the world in innovation in new...

On Thursday, Actors Theatre kicked off the 41st annual Humana Festival of New American Plays with a free preview of the six full-length productions that make up the event that starts Wednesday, March...

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A long-running show: Humana Foundation and the Festival of New American Plays

Recently, some theater-lovers nationwide started to care quite a lot about the insurance industry. As Humana worked through its merger with Aetna, arts aficionados wondered: What would happen to the...

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‘I Now Pronounce’: A fun, easy start to the Humana Festival

Weddings can be great, life-affirming, heart-warming events that renew your belief in love. Or they can be a minefield. One that begins with the not particularly beloved rabbi keeling over and dying...

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Cuban Missile Crisis play at Humana Fest: We’re not gonna be OK

The reaction of many in the audience at Thursday night’s opening of Basil Kreimendahl’s “We’re Gonna be Okay” at the Humana Festival was pretty much the polar opposite of my reaction and that of my...

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‘Cry it Out’ explores the dark humor of motherhood, sisterhood and womanhood

To some people who are “childfree,” as they say, there are more than a few parts of child rearing that seem like the acts of a self-loathing masochist. When I hear friends’ stories of chapped nipples,...

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Accidental photographer Ben Marcum carves out a niche in the headshot market

Ben Marcum’s headshots are immediately recognizable. You’ve seen real estate agents and lawyers use them on billboards; if you have any “in” with the Louisville theater crowd, you’ve seen actors post...

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Louisville’s National Historic Landmarks unite to promote education and tourism

Whether learning about the area’s relationship with the Ohio River at the Louisville Water Tower or discovering how enslaved people contributed to the founding of the city at Locust Grove, visiting the...

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Actors Theatre quietly does away with National Ten-Minute Play Contest

Actors Theatre has quietly done away with the National Ten-Minute Play Contest this year after 28 years. The winners of the contest were produced at The Ten-Minute Plays, showcased at the end of the...

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Actors Theatre’s ‘Dracula’ ushers in screams, blood, talented newcomers and...

Everyone on I know on social media who has seen the return of “Dracula” at Actors Theatre thus far has made some variation of the same comment: “‘Dracula’ is back. It must be fall in Louisville.” For...

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Rats Jane and Olivia are the unsung stars of Actors Theatre’s ‘Dracula’

One charcoal-haired, raven-eyed, delicate and, yes, adorable actress has graced the Actors Theatre stage more than 150 times during “Dracula,” but you likely don’t even know her name. She is Jane. She...

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New plays and new performers: Actors Theatre and the New Play Project

On Monday, Actors Theatre of Louisville will premiere Idris Goodwin’s “Six,” the second of three entries in this year’s New Play Project. The project — produced by the members of the Professional...

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Actors Theatre leaders on replacing Artistic Director Les Waters

In early October, Actors Theatre announced that Artistic Director Les Waters would be leaving the organization after programming the 2018-19 season. The British theater director is well-regarded in the...

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In Other News…McConnell v. Moore, 42nd Humana Festival, Lawrence on...

Moore or Less: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finds himself at odds with another member of the GOP this week: Alabama’s Republican Senate nominee, Roy Moore. Last week, The Washington Post...

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Actors Theatre’s ‘Skeleton Crew’ is a powerful look at the ‘families’ behind...

There have been a lot of “thinkpieces” on the internet lately about how misguided it is to think of your job as a “family.” Workplaces don’t run on love and loyalty — they run on the bottom line. And...

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‘The Santaland Diaries’ is a one-elf advent calendar of fun, crazy and snark

Confession time: I’m not just a Scrooge at Christmas, I’m an equal-opportunity Scrooge when it comes to holidays. I don’t know how I got to this place (although this year it’s more understandable than...

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Love, trust and betrayal: ‘The Magic Play’ plays with emotions at Actors Theatre

“The Magic Play” — it’s a play, it’s a magic show, it’s an immersive theater experience. And it’s really good. The play, by Andrew Hinderaker, comes to Actors Theatre via Chicago and Washington, D.C.,...

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Humana Festival 42: Celebrating plays that ‘share the values of inclusion,...

With IdeaFestival currently on hiatus, Humana Festival has no challenger to the title of “Peak Louisville Culture Season.” Starting Wednesday, thousands of audience members and national critics will...

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42nd Humana Festival’s ‘God Said This’: Who’s redeeming whom?

There’s something strangely gratifying about watching art that is set in your own backyard — the “insider” references, the keen familiarity, the idea that you’ll get jokes that might fly over the heads...

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Humana Fest’s ‘Marginal Loss’: How do you piece things back together after 9/11?

For Americans of a certain age, the attacks on 9/11 are the defining world event of our lives. While we’ve seen various film and TV makers replay those moments in action-adventure terms, few, if any,...

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Humana Festival’s ‘Do You Feel Anger?’: Searingly relevant and thoughtfully...

We’re only halfway through the 42nd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre, but we now have an easy contender for “most talked about play of the festival.” “Do You Feel Anger?”...

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Humana Fest: ‘we, the invisibles’ examines abuse of power in the service...

As Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 44nd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays continues on, the latest original full-length play premiered this weekend — Susan Soon He Stanton’s “we, the...

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Humana Fest’s ‘You Across From Me’ is the late-night TV we’d have in a better...

Every year, slipped in among the other world premieres of Actors Theater’s Humana Festival of New American Plays, there is a play created to showcase the 20 members of that season’s Professional...

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7 Questions With … Meredith McDonough, associate artistic director of Actors...

Meredith McDonough brings Simon Stephens' “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” to the Actors Theatre stage starting Tuesday, Sept. 18.

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