Jul 16, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Jack L.B. Gohn | Published 7/16/17 Most religious communities are closed to some extent. Most religious communities preach benevolence toward fellow-humans. But the more closed a community is, the harder becomes for that community to live up to the benevolence it...
Jul 14, 2017 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
“The play that I felt was the festival’s strongest this summer.” “Really powerful material… takes the audience to a world that really we rarely ever see on stage.” — J. Wynn Rousuck, WYPR click here to listen to the...
Jul 11, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Peter Marks | Published 7/11/17 SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — In the sedate hills of the West Virginia panhandle, a new play is placing an especially unsettling wake-up call. The ringing is measured but angry, composed and yet brutal — a sound that seeks to shake us...
Jul 8, 2017 | Everything is Wonderful, Press, Reviews
by Tim Treanor | Published 7/8/17 ——– Everything Is Wonderful closes July 30, 2017 Details and tickets ——– So tell me what’s better: living in the love, support, and strength of a community at the cost of your independence, or living a life that’s free and lonely?...
Jun 19, 2017 | Press, Reviews, Short Plays
By Celia Wren |Published 6/19/17 “Roller coasters are my favorite!” a character exclaims as he sits onboard a climbing, plunging amusement-park ride in “This Is the Big One,” a 10-minute drama featured in this year’s Source Festival. The remark may strike a chord with...
May 11, 2017 | Airness, Press, Reviews
The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness. by Tony Adler | Published 5/11/17 I missed the 40th annual new plays festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville last year—just like I missed the 39 before it. So I made time this spring for...
Apr 24, 2017 | Airness, Articles, Press, Reviews
by KATE BERGSTROM | Published 4/24/17 The 41st annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville started with “crying it out” and ended with the assertion that “we’re going to be okay.” Those bookend titles accurately encompassed the...
Apr 20, 2017 | Airness, Interviews, Press, Reviews
BY AMERICAN THEATRE EDITORS | Published April 20, 2017 On this week’s podcast David J. Loehr reports back from the Humana Festival. Plus, the editors discuss ‘Miss Saigon’ and AT’s new program to nurture theatre critics of color. Every other week, the editors of...
Apr 12, 2017 | Airness, Interviews, Press, Reviews
by Rick Pender | Published April 12, 2017 Chelsea Marcantel’s ‘Airness’ crafted a set of characters with grand personas and gave them very human backstories, while Molly Smith Metzler’s ‘Cry It Out’ poignantly portrayed a pair of very different...
Apr 11, 2017 | Airness, Press, Reviews
by Lou Harry | Published April 11, 2017 The Humana Festival of New American Plays (March 1-April 9), a Louisville tradition for 41 years, once again attracted both talent and audiences from around the country. I was there not just to check out five world premiere...
