‘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 Humana Festival of New American Plays
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.
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.
Finding Moments of Joy to Nourish the Soul
Through the fear and uncertainty of an open-ended pandemic, it’s crucial to take time to reconnect with yourself and your surroundings.
Will There Even Be Theatre Six Months From Now?
Our job now as theatremakers is to adapt to whatever mechanism we have to tell stories.
Humana Festival Announces 2020 Lineup
New artistic director Robert Barry Fleming’s first festival program will feature five world premiere plays.
Humana’s Changing Conversation, and Who Leads It
The shows in this year’s new-play fest at Actors Theatre of Louisville were in dialogue with past offerings, no doubt, but also with our current moment.
The Parenthood Trap
A conversation with the playwright of ‘Cry it Out,’ a comedy/drama about bonds and conflicts among neighbors with young children.
