May 23-25 Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 $45+; 8 p.m. Just like Rihanna, chains and whips excite me. So you would think I would have read E.L. James’ popular “Fifty Shades of Grey” series that made housewives horny from sea to shining sea. It’s on my summer reading list, so [...]
May 23-26 Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 kentuckycenter.org $11-$16; 8 p.m. (2 p.m. on May 26) Take six sexual deviants looking for a good time and place them in a laboratory for a secret sex study — that’s the basic premise of “Great American Sex Play,” a racy romp that will make [...]
May 23-June 9 Vault 1031 1031 S. Sixth St. • 312-316-8158 lilliantix@gmail.com $15; 7:30 p.m. Who is Lillian Baxter? If you knew the answer to that, it would defeat the purpose. “An Evening with Lillian Baxter” is a one-man-as-one-woman show about the brief but vivid career of a fictional D-list actress in the early ’60s. [...]
May 9-12, 16-18 The Bard’s Town 1801 Bardstown Road • 749-5275 thebardstown.com $15 ($12 students/seniors); 7:30 p.m. This weekend and next, The Bard’s Town Theatre is putting on Jonathan Marc Sherman’s “Things We Want,” which debuted off-Broadway in 2007 and was directed by Ethan Hawke. Sherman is best known for writing the play “Women and [...]
May 9-19 Henry Clay Theatre 604 S. Third St. pandoraprods.org $18; various times Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had much in common: both were child prodigies from the same wealthy Chicago neighborhood; both started law school at the University of Chicago by the age of 18; and both were obsessed with the prospect of getting [...]
May 3-5 Alley Theater 1205 E. Washington St. thealleytheater.org $12; 7:30 p.m. Shakespeare can sometimes be a nightmare in the classroom — but it certainly lends itself to comedy, and Bottom’s Up Productions is taking full advantage. Their newest adaptation is based on “Hamlet,” affectionately dubbed “The Tragedy of Omelet: Prince of Denny’s.” Omelet’s alternate, [...]
April 26-27 The Rudyard Kipling 422 W. Oak St. gsslou.com $10; 7:30 p.m. The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Louisville was inspired by the Victorian-era stage geniuses W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. They were particularly known for their absurd works, mixing fantasy with reality, akin to Shakespeare’s comedies. GSS was established in an effort to [...]
April 24-28 Bunbury Theatre 604 S. Third St. bunburytheatre.org $10-$21; 7:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. on April 28) Sallie Manassah’s newest play illuminates issues often labeled with a somber taboo: the process of aging and the stigma that accompanies old age. Five women in their 60s meet once a month over a game of cards to [...]
April 24-May 4 The Bard’s Town 1801 Bardstown Road thebardstown.com Times and prices vary It’s Derby … again. Time to booze it up on mint-flavored bourbon and go outside in hats you wouldn’t be caught dead in the other 364 days of the year. Just like the rest of us, The Bard’s Town is spreading [...]
April 22-23 Actors Theatre of Louisville 316 W. Main St. • 584-1205 actorstheatre.org Free (reservations required); 7 p.m. Being a huge fan of the whole local movement as well as sharing the same attention span as most young(ish) digital agers, I was pleased to hear the Actors Theatre Apprentice/Intern Company would be presenting eight 10-minute [...]
April 12-14 Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 kidsactingagainstcancer.com $16; 8 p.m. (Fri.-Sat.), 2 p.m. (Sun.) Kids Acting Against Cancer is a homegrown nonprofit group dedicated to funding pediatric cancer research through performing arts. They’ve chosen “God of Carnage” for their spring production, and it’s tough to think of a better way to [...]
April 11-28 Jewish Community Center 3600 Dutchmans Lane • 459-0660 centerstagejcc.org $18 adv., $20 door; various times I love me a play that is inappropriate for children. It means it’ll tackle saucy, sexy subjects and won’t be interrupted by a crying toddler. The Jewish Community Center presents “Avenue Q” this month, the hilariously absurd puppet [...]
April 5 & 7 Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 $25 ($10 students); 8 p.m. (April 5), 2 p.m. (April 7) U of L’s School of Music Opera Theater presents the 1956 French religious opera “Dialogues of the Carmelites” Friday and Sunday at Bomhard Theater in the Kentucky Center. Claire Divizio, [...]
April 4-7 Kentucky Center 501 W. Main St. • 584-7777 $25+; various times During its three-year run on Broadway, the musical “Memphis” won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 2010. Now a touring production, Broadway Across America brings it to the Kentucky Center stage all this week. Loosely based on Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips, [...]
April 4-7 Clifton Center 2117 Payne St. jennylindplay.com $13-$15; 7:30 p.m. Jenny Lind, affectionately dubbed the “Swedish Nightingale,” became one of the most widely adored opera singers in the 1800s, touring Europe with much success. Yet it’s her American tour that Kentucky remembers, because, on P.T. Barnum’s arm, she came to Louisville and performed. More [...]
April 4-6 & 11-13 The Bard’s Town 1801 Bardstown Road • 876-0532 finniganbeginagain.com $15+; 7:30 p.m. It’s funky. It’s fresh. It’s fun. And sometimes it’s even a bit raunchy. Yep, Finnigan Productions again brings its Festival of Funky Fresh Fun to the stage, the sixth year for the production of 10-minute plays. This year, 11 [...]
March 21-30 Walden Theatre 1123 Payne St. savagerose.org $17-$30; various times Savage Rose is a local theatrical company devoted to re-imagining classical plays, determined to show their continued relevance to modern life. In the next two weeks, Savage Rose will be performing “The Taming of the Shrew,” Shakespeare’s famous comedy, and “The Rover,” a comedy [...]
March 14-23 The Bard’s Town 1801 Bardstown Road lourep.org $15-$16; 7:30 p.m. Louisville Repertory Company continues their 20th season with this existential classic in which Jean-Paul Sartre proclaims, “Hell is other people.” Three deceased characters are forced to spend their afterlives locked in a room together — pretty much like MTV’s “Real World” with fewer [...]
March 7-23 Alley Theater 1210 Franklin St. thealleytheater.org $18-$20; 7 p.m. Clive Barker is known, first and foremost, for his mastery of horror. His works are ambitious and frightening, and it is this quality that has garnered him a large following in Louisville. It is local John Hetzel’s work, however, that brought Barker’s work to [...]
February 27, 2013 – 1:50 pm
Feb. 27-March 3 U of L Thrust Theatre 2314 S. Floyd St. • 852-6814 louisville.edu/theatrearts $10-$15; 8 p.m. (plus 3 p.m. Sun.) We know about Hitler and the Nazis, and we know of the horrors that took place in the concentration camps. Lillian Groag’s “The White Rose” focuses on a side of World War II [...]
