“We believe that theater is a really powerful tool for learning important skills in life,” said Jennifer Thalman Kepler, community outreach director of Louisville’s all-female theater company, Looking for Lilith. The company prides itself in telling unheard stories and lifting … Continue reading
Linsey Gessner and Hannah Wemitt are smiling. Their enthusiasm is both charming and infectious. Gessner is the education associate and Wemitt is the marketing director for StageOne Family Theatre. As they share about StageOne’s upcoming DramaWorks summer camp season, it … Continue reading
The Shakespeare Behind Bars program is held in a small windowless room on the first floor of a building located at the far side of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex prison yard. Participating inmates make the trek down the long, … Continue reading
NAME: Amy Attaway BIO: Associate Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre; Co-Artistic Director of Theatre [502] AGE: 34 years old CONTACT: @amyattaway What inspired you to do a play about sleeping? The idea for the play started … Continue reading
When Les Waters was in the process of interviewing for the position of artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, he made it a point to venture out into the community. While shopping at a local store, he was approached … Continue reading
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Actors Theatre Partners with ZFX to make dreams come to life on stage. “Sprezzatura” is a medieval Italian word that describes the enormous effort that goes into the act of seeming effortless. The Irish poet William Butler Yeats applied the term … Continue reading
When Whitten and Jaclyn Montgomery were six and nine respectively, their mother, Sandy, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. What followed was more than a year of the Montgomery girls’ parents being largely away from home as Sandy sought experimental treatments … Continue reading
“It’s not a fringe festival,” stressed Charlie Sexton, artistic director of Walden Theatre, about the upcoming Slant Culture Theatre Festival. Despite the fact that the festival features five performing arts groups, music, poetry readings, and tarot card readers, it’s not … Continue reading