‘Flex’: Taking the Lady Train From the Arkansas Delta to Lincoln Center
Candrice Jones’s new play about a Southern girls’ basketball team has come a long way, but it hasn’t been a layup.
All Stories About Actors Theatre of Louisville
Company First and Last: SITI Takes Its Final Bow
The tight-knit troupe, whose unique training has been at least as influential as its form-bending work, ends its 30-year run in a typically unlikely way: with a take on ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Les Waters: Theatre Spaces and Thin Places
In excerpts from a new book, the British-born director talks about childhood mysteries, the theatre buildings he’s worked in, and his fascination with erasure and contradictions.
Robert Barry Fleming’s Sense of Scale
Actors Theatre of Louisville’s artistic director sets the record straight about the status of the Humana Festival and the company’s ongoing efforts to match ambition with capacity.
In Louisville There Once Was a Festival
Every April for decades, producers, theatre mavens, and critics would gather to binge new plays at the Festival of New American Plays. But not this April.
No Humana Fest This Year, as ATL Reimagines New-Work Model
Actors Theatre of Louisville has cancelled this year’s new-play fest to pivot to other means of supporting and lifting playwrights’ work.
The Shows That Got Away and/or Found a Way
A look at 8 shows that the pandemic cut short, what’s happened to them since, and what might be next.
Actors Theatre of Louisville Announces Virtual Humana Fest Lineup
The 45th annual festival will feature virtual projects and experiences on a rolling basis over the coming months.
Paul Owen Built Thousands of Sets, and a Life in the Theatre
We were lucky to know the scenic designer, but not as fortunate as he was to work so tirelessly and well at a job he loved for four decades.
Realizing Life While They Ritualize It
In Louisville, the informal Church of Grover’s Corners has been reading and relishing ‘Our Town’ aloud every other month for a few years now.
