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The Lively Arts channel presents comprehensive coverage of the contemporary cultural scene in Louisville and surrounding areas. The focus here is on theatre, opera, dance, music and the visual arts.
Scenes from the Day of Living History.
Saturday was the first effort of a Bon Air Neighborhood Neighborhood festival at the Bashford Manor Bed and Breakfast. It was promoted as a day of living history and as a fund-raiser for the Bon Air Neighborhood Association. There was the Louisville Dulcimer Society providing the sweet and soft musi
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Jun 13, 10
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Beg/Int Modern Dance Class
Studying the basic components of modern dance technique. Open to college students and adults. This is not a hip-hop class. A challenging and athletic form of dance as art, I will lead participants through a great class with individual attention to form and technique. My contemporary-based choreograp
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Apr 13, 10
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Big Weekend at Motherlodge
Here's an email we got from Ray Rizzo about Motherlodge's big blast at the Rud this weekend (from Thu-Sat) to close out its spring season in Louisville: To our friends, fellow musicians, actors, and neighbors, Motherlodge would love your support this Thursday, Friday and Saturday as we finish our Sp
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Apr 1, 10
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World Premiere of Murder in Cairo, the Wrath of Ra
WhoDunnit Mystery Theatre announces the premiere of a new original murder mystery by Louisvillian Graham Bell. From its title, Murder in Cairo: The Wrath of Ra, my guess is the mummy done it. A locked-room murder and an ancient Egyptian curse plague an aristocratic family in 1935. Who dunnit –
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Mar 29, 10
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Humana's Ten Minute Plays (review by Sherry Deatrick)
You might think it's easy to write a ten minute play. Just dash off 10-15 pages of dialog, right? But if you want a good play, you must make every word, every gesture, and every pause count. And watch out, or you'll sink into the miasma of sketch comedy, or
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Mar 28, 10
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'Crossing Mountains', Looking For Lilith (review by J.S. Holland)
The Looking For Lilith theatre group formed a decade ago, with the goal of presenting plays based on women throughout history. Their first production was Crossing Mountains, a series of short conversational vignettes repeating the stories told by actual Appalachian women. These stories came from the
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Mar 28, 10
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Fund for the Arts gets casino money
That's right. On March 31, the Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County (funded by Caesar's floating gambling boat) will announce a partnership with Fund for the Arts for Stage One and Music Theatre Louisville to include performances for New Albany-Floyd County. The media event will be at IUS at 10:00am
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Mar 24, 10
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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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Mar 21, 10
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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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Mar 21, 10
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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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