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The Method Gun at Humana Festival (review by Sherry Deatrick)
“Watch out!” Those were the last words acting guru Stella Burden said to her troupe before running off to South America in the mid-70's. The troupe clung not only to her words, but also to her possessions (a tiger-shaped bar of soap, a sealed note locked in a box, a
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yesterday
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Cherry Sisters Revisited at Humana Fest (review by J.S. Holland)
Dan O'Brien's brilliant play The Cherry Sisters Revisited tells the important story of how a group of talentless showbiz spinsters from Iowa gave birth to the twentieth century. First, a quick tutorial: yes, the Cherry Sisters really existed. (I overheard some audience members after the play specula
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yesterday
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As Bees in Honey Drown (review by Cory Vaughn)
This will no doubt be a shorter and vaguer review than usual, because it will be hard to talk about Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown, now being giving a satisfying and vibrant production at Pandora Productions, without giving away crucial secrets of this sneakiest of plots. I
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Mar 17, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of The 39 Steps
Reviewed by Keith Waits While I don't think it the job of a review to regurgitate ad copy for the play in question, one particular blurb I saw for Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps touted it as a cross between Monty Python and the filmmaker famous as a master of
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Mar 16, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Heist!
Reviewed by Keith Waits This most unusual entry in the 34th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays is a site-specific play written to be performed in the unique lobby and gallery spaces within the 21C Hotel. Both a resourceful connection between two local arts organizations, one a theatre and
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Mar 13, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Forbidden Broadway
Reviewed by Keith Waits If you love musical theatre, then, of course, you would love a parody of musical theatre, right? Unfortunately, shows such as Forbidden Broadway are rarely staged in the Louisville area, but the As Yet Unnamed Theater Company, who know a thing or two about classic musicals,
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Mar 13, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of The Wizard of Oz
Reviewed by Keith Waits There may be no more familiar and iconic a children's film than The Wizard of Oz. Adapted from a title in the series of children's books penned by L. Frank Baum, the movie frames the story of Dorothy Gale's journey to the magical land of Oz
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Mar 11, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Phoenix
Reviewed by Keith Waits While most drama concerns itself on some level with human relationships, stories that are about romantic relationships in particular remain fascinating because no two relationships are ever alike. Still, as a genre, the Romantic Comedy has become so tired and formulaic becaus
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Mar 7, 10
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the Louisville Science Center
Ok all you arts and science enthusiasts, have I got a cool experience to share with you! As you know, I like to promote artists of all genres. Well, in an effort to see what the city of Louisville, KY, had in the way of artists I spent a Saturday
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Mar 7, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Harvey
Reviewed by Keith Waits There are certain roles, and the plays that contain them, that are inextricably tied to a particular actor in the collective memory: Any actor who takes on Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire walks in Brando's shadow, and 70 years after he first played the
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Mar 6, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Ground
Reviewed by Keith Waits Coming as the third entry in this year's Humana Festival of New American Plays, following the comic fantasy of Sirens and the esoteric memory puzzle that is Fissures (lost and found), Lisa Dillman's Ground seems almost old-fashioned in comparison. I am willing to bet the vari
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Mar 5, 10
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U of L's 'A Song for Coretta' (review by Jane Mattingly)
On January 31, 2006, a strong woman who helped lead a revolution of equality and justice slipped quietly away from this world. Most know Coretta Scott King as the widow of the most notorious civil rights martyr, and as a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement after her husband's
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Mar 4, 10
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She Loves Me
For lush musical-comedy romanticism, it's hard to beat She Loves Me. There is a timeless magic about this 1963 show, which has a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joe Masteroff. Factoring in lonely hearts ads, adultery, a fair amount of nasty sparring, and even
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Mar 1, 10
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Humana Fest's 'Fissures (lost and found)' review by S. Deatrick
I'm looking out my window on this grey Sunday afternoon. The trees are bare. No, they're mossy. I'm here. But I was there, at the world premiere of Fissures (lost and found), the stunning second offering of Actors Theatre's Humana Festival of New American Plays. And I wish I were
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Feb 28, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Le Petomane's Slant
Reviewed by Keith Waits I quite enjoyed watching Slant, an original piece of absurdist comedy now playing at the Rudyard Kipling, but I find it a challenge to write about. My available vocabulary seems inadequate to the task of describing it with any justice. It was very, very good, and,
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Feb 27, 10
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Louisville Ballet's Three Reflections (review by Cory Vaughn)
I am no expert in the ballet, but I had a great time at last night's opening performance of the Louisville Ballet's three-act anthology of music and dance styles, Three Reflections, nonetheless. It helped that my guest for the premiere has studied dance for a number of years, and was
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Feb 27, 10
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John Lennon & Me (preview by Jane Mattingly)
Being a thirteen-year old girl was rough. I sure wouldn't want to do it again. My body was evolving into a bizarre shape, all the other girls were cooler than me and none of the cute boys knew I existed. I was much too old for Barbies but womanhood still
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Feb 26, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of Sirens
Reviewed by Keith Waits Entire contents copyright © 2010, Keith Waits, all rights reserved The 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays opens with Sirens, a very accessible and funny production in the Bingham Theatre that should prove to be a popular selection for audiences looking for uproarious
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Feb 25, 10
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Theatre Louisville review of When In Disgrace
Reviewed by Keith Waits Entire contents copyright © 2010, Keith Waits, all rights reserved Often the experience of watching a play can be like being frozen in time, uncertain of what impact the unfolding drama is having on you or the audience around you, and then it comes: a powerful
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Feb 25, 10
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The Boys Next Door (review by Cory Vaughn)
I'll admit it; I totally had the wrong idea going into IUS's production of The Boys Next Door. Having never seen it, and having heard many vague summaries of it, I was under the impression that it was another one of the umpteen Cheerfully Dysfunctional Family Farces (yes, capital letters
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Feb 24, 10
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