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...
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 6, 2017 | Airness, Articles, Press, Reviews
by Marty Rosen | Published April 6, 2017 This year’s Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays runs through Sunday, which means you still have time to see all of the productions. In fact, if you have the stamina, on Saturday and Sunday you can...
Apr 3, 2017 | Airness, Articles, Press, Reviews
by Mike Fischer, Special to the Journal Sentinel | Published April 3, 2017 LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The legion of happy souls out there playing air guitar – you know who you are – give voice to feelings for which we have no words. Air guitar is both irresistible and...
Apr 2, 2017 | Airness, Press, Reviews
Chuck Lavazzi and Tina Farmer of 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis review Chelsea Marcantel’s comedy “Airness” at the 2017 Humana Festival of New American Plays. Originally published April 2, 2017. Click here for the original video.
