Jun 5, 2017 | Articles, Everything is Wonderful, Press
by BWW News Desk | Published 6/5/17 The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) at Shepherd University announces their 130-member company for the 2017 season. This accomplished group of playwrights, directors, designers, actors, technicians, and staff come...
May 13, 2017 | Airness, Articles, Interviews, Press
by Eli Keel | Published 5/13/17 Airness, a new play by Chelsea Marcantel premiered last month at The Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. The play is deceptively simple, a Cinderella story of an unlikely competitor rising to the top of a...
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 25, 2017 | Airness, Interviews, Press
Director Meredith McDonough and I were interviewed about AIRNESS for THE INEXPLICABLE DUMB SHOW podcast. Download wherever you get your podcasts, or listen online here.
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...
Apr 7, 2017 | Airness, Press, Reviews
By Tara Anderson | Arts & Culture | Published April 7, 2017 Air guitar is ridiculous. Drunken nerds who can’t play actual music, pretending to be rock stars, jumping all over a tiny stage in the back of some grimy bar? No thanks. And air guitar as a form of...
Apr 7, 2017 | Airness, Articles, Press
by Eli Keel | Published April 7, 2017 Last Friday, I opened my email, and there was a message from someone named Lt. Facemelter, who informed me that he was coming to Louisville and wanted to talk to me… about competitive air guitar. Now, obviously, there is setup to...
