Actors Theatre Raises Curtain on 2014-2015 Season
A scene from “A Christmas Carol.” If you’re looking for a common theme or idea around which Actors Theatre builds its season, you won’t find one. At least not a conscious one, according to Artistic...
View ArticleBrain Trust: 15th Annual IdeaFestival Blossoms, Branches Out
By TODD ZEIGLER Copy Editor The thing about ideas is, they go somewhere. IdeaFestival is an idea that came about in Louisville in 2000. Since then, it has gone around the world to bring in leading...
View Article“Love’s” a Laboured Opening for Actors
Richard Prioleau and Kimiye Corwin in “Loves Labour’s Lost.” It could be called “The Year of Shakespeare.” The power of the playwright’s works played by and large in a straightforward fashion with...
View ArticleSAM and Trinity Teen Team Up for Bone Marrow Donor Drives
Owen McMasters. Owen McMasters, a 15-year-old student at Trinity High School, is facing a battle most kids his age will never face. He’s fighting leukemia – again. McMasters was first diagnosed in...
View Article“Dracula” Scares Up Successful Return at Actors Theatre
Photo Courtesy of BILL BRYMER. Randolph Curtis Rand and Erika Grob in “Dracula.” A few years ago, in a different publication, I gave Actors Theatre’s “Dracula” a somewhat mixed review. While a...
View ArticleDefining Each Year: The St. James Court Art Show Poster
By TODD ZEIGLER Copy Editor Each fall, the changing leaves in Old Louisville serve as accents to a vast palette of colors overtaking the ground level: The St. James Court Art Show. Hundreds of artists...
View ArticleKentucky Shakespeare Announces 2015 Season
Photo Courtesy of HOLLY STONEChildren enjoyed face painting and balloon animals at Kentucky Shakespeare’s Saturday in the Park. Kentucky Shakespeare just had the kind of season most theater companies...
View ArticleCurran Lands on Feet as Ballet A.D.
By TODD ZEIGLER Copy Editor Four weeks into his new job, Robert Curran has a bit of a challenge. The native Australian has to get the lay of the land in his new home while hitting the ground running....
View ArticleLouis’ Many Paths Converge Back Home
By TODD ZEIGLER Copy Editor Talk to Karter Louis for a few minutes about what he does, and you’ll likely get a story that is equal parts anecdote, philosophy, business lesson and comedic monologue. The...
View ArticleAAC: From Charity to Company
For much of its history, the charity-focused theater troupe Acting Against Cancer has held the air of a group with a mission, who happens to go about it via labors of love. While it has put on a...
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