Humana Memories: When You Close Your Eyes, What Do You Remember?
When I moved to Indianapolis back in the mid-1990s, I had no idea what to expect from my new home’s regional theaters. But on the drive from Philadelphia, I consoled myself with the knowledge that, if...
View ArticleCritical Debate: To Read or Not Read The Play First
Chris: Okay, I’ve got homework tonight. Lou: No, you don’t. You don’t have to read plays before you see them. Chris: I do, you know. I’ve always done it. Lou: I would suggest that, in most cases,...
View ArticleChris Arnott’s Engine 31 Review: The Delling Shore
The Delling Shore is one of those plays on words where bitter aging writers squabble about who stole whose ideas, who sold out, who deserves fame more, and who’s the bigger asshole. That the setting...
View ArticleChris Arnott’s Engine 31 Review: O Guru Guru
Some theaters aspire to be as comfortable as a living room. Will you settle for a yoga studio? When you enter the Victor Jory Theater on the second floor of the Actors Theatre of Louisville...
View ArticleThe $64,000 Housing Question
Sam Marks’ play The Delling Shore mentions in its opening scene that “Charles Van Doren” is rumored to live down the road from one of this angry drama’s central antagonists. That reference hit home for...
View ArticleDowntime: Hopping at Hillbilly Tea
Saturday night after all the curtain calls, stars and industry guests of the Humana Festival, plus everybody else, crowded into the hipster drinkery Hillbilly Tea, where they serve highball in Ball...
View ArticleThe ATL Apprentice Company: Niceness Counts
“We’re probably the country’s only practical training program,” boasts Michael Legg, the director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Apprentice Company for the past six years. This troupe of young...
View ArticleA Few Hundred Other Things you Could Call a Theater Restaurant
The downstairs eatery at Actors Theatre of Louisville is under new management and has been renamed Milkwood, a title reminiscent of a Dylan Thomas play. (It’s only a matter of time before someone uses...
View ArticleChris Arnott’s Engine 31 review: Appropriate
In Appropriate, lifetimes of simmering sibling rivalries and just plain enmities come to a hate-filled head in a stage scenario we’ve seen countless times before: family members gathering to disperse...
View ArticleChris Arnott’s Engine 31 review: Cry Old Kingdom
It’s hard to know what to think about Jeff Augustin’s spare human drama of turmoil and unrest and shattered hopes in 1964 Haiti (“a couple of hours outside of Port-au-Prince”). It’s hard to know...
View ArticleA Web of Tale-Spinning
The plays of Humana 37 are a diverse lot, admirably so. But it’s not that hard to pick out a prevailing theme: myths and legends. From the grounded yet magical odyssey of Gnit to the generations-old...
View ArticleSee Me After Class: Paula Vogel on Playwrights as Teachers
The weekend shouldn’t have to feel like school. But a Humana panel discussion Saturday morning stayed safely within ivy towers, even though its most revered participant has taken her work to the...
View ArticleStill Waters: An Interview with Actors Theatre of Lousville Artistic Director...
Les Waters was named Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2011. But the first full season that he has programmed for the theater — and that means not just the Humana Festival but a...
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