Pictured from left to right: Kate Drury as Logainne, Kasey Kraft as Marcy, Zach Burrell as Barfee (front); Tai Rosenblatt as Coneybear, Kyle Braun as Chip, Kristin Yates as Olive (back) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Directed by Tina Jo Wallace Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. It is hard to be a kid. With school, activiti

Photo from Hayswood Facebook page; Jerrah Photography Annie Based on "Little Orphan Annie" Book By Thomas Meehan Lyrics by Martin Charnin Music by Charles Strouse Directed by Jami Weckstein Review by Brian Kennedy Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Brian Kennedy. All rights reserved. Looking for an adorable, fun-filled musical this weekend or next? Hayswood Theatre’s got one with the enjoyable musical Annie . The Jami Weckstein-directed Annie features the precocious titul

MEG Photography LLC SONGBIRD Adaptation by Eric Sean Fogel, James Lowe, and Kelley Rourke Based on La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac, and Ludovic Halévy Directed by Andrew Nienaber by Jeanne-Marie Rogers Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Jeanne-Marie Rogers. All rights reserved. Songbird is an adaptation by Eric Sean Fogel, James Lowe and Kelley Rourke of Jacques Offenbach’s opera bouffe La Perichole , updated to a Prohibition era New Orleans setting. Sung

The First National Touring Company of THE GREAT GATSBY. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade The Great Gatsby Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Book by Katie Kerrigan Directed by Marc Bruni Review by Loraine Lawson Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Loraine Lawson. All rights reserved. What is it about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby that draws modern audiences? Is it the story of love gone awry? The carelessness of the elite? The tragedy of Gatsby’s American

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival Announces 66th Season of Free Kentucky Shakespeare in Central Park A preview by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. If you are longing for summer nights under the stars amidst all this snow and ice that simply will not melt, there is good news! You can ease your cabin fever with a promise of outdoor theatre. Kentucky Shakespeare, the Official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth, announces the 66th

Photo by Russell Underwood Checking-In Featuring Characters from Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Written and Directed by Martin French Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. Step inside the Kleinhelter Gallery and a member of The Chamber Theatre hands you a ticket, one of two colors. One ticket sends you upstairs; the other sends you into the next room. What follows are intimate one acts between Ranevskyaya, Varya, Yermol

Lend Me a Tenor Written by Ken Ludwig Directed by Andrew K. McGill Review by Erin Hargan Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Erin Hargan. All rights reserved. Lend Me a Tenor at Clarksville Little Theatre is a fun, fast paced comedy of slamming doors, large egos, and serious misunderstandings. The cast of this production at Clarksville Little Theatre dives head first into the chaos with energy and confidence. As soon as the curtain rises the production commits to the show’

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical Book by Joe Tracz Music and Lyrics by Rokicki Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Directed by Andrew Harris Review by Lan Nguyen-Colgate Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Lan Nguyen-Colgate. All rights reserved. It’s a tale as old as time, the Greek Gods ruled the world and meddled in the lives of humans. The meetings between gods and mortals often led to affairs that resulted in children–demi-gods, half

Jagged Little Pill The Musical Lyrics by Alanis Morissette Music by Alanis Morrissette and Glen Ballard Book by Diablo Cody Directed and Choreographed by Remy Sisk and Myranda Thomas Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. They look like the perfect family; a mother who sends annual Christmas letters, a father who provide for his family, a son on his way to Harvard and an adopted daughter. Look closer and secrets and shame ar

Endgame By Samuel Beckett Directed by Steve Woodring Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. Times are hard. Watch the news or look at your phone and it’s hard to look away from the wide array of injustices, disaster and unrest. So why would you want to see a play about suffering and death? Furthermore, why write or direct such a play? Bunbury Theatre takes a stab at Samuel Beckett’s Endgame , a dire play with themes of grief

Photo credit: Amy Dodrill Spring Awakening Based on the play by Frank Wedekind Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Directed by Sharon Kinnison Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. A young boy gains knowledge. Going against the status quo and the harsh community he is a part of, he shares this information with his peers. A chain of unspeakable events follows, changing him forever. In Spring Awakening , ch

Photo by Bill Brymer Emma Based on the novel by Jane Austen Written by Kate Hamill Directed by Amy Attaway Review By Lan Nguyen-Colgate Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Lan Nguyen-Colgate. All rights reserved. This winter, Kentucky Shakespeare presents a new production based on Jane Austen’s novel Emma . Director Amy Attaway has once again chosen an adaptation written by playwright Kate Hamill. Emma Woodhouse (the titular heroine) is “handsome, clever, and rich.” Having s

Pictured from left to right: FRONT – Georgette Kleier, Kiersten Vorheis, Katie Blackerby; BACK - Colette Mattingly, Brenda Sparks, Heather Paige Folsom, Tasha Hatchett, Sara King The Bunco Squad Rolls Again Written and Directed by Jim Hesselman Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2026 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. A group of women gather to play a dice game every month. Sharing community, laughter and a few tears, these bunco players are there for each ot

RENT Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson Directed by Alonzo Ramont Music Direction by Dr. David Borman Review by Regina Harris Entire contents are copyright@2025 by Regina Harris. All rights reserved. Redline Performing Arts’ production of RENT opened last week at the MEx Theatre. RENT tells the story of a group of artists scraping out a living in the 1990’s New York City, facing the dawn of a new millennium amid poverty, the AIDS crisis and the looming anxiety of cu

The Cherry Orchard By Anton Chekov Directed by Isabella Schott Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2025 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. A family arrives at their home and beloved orchard. Once wealthy, the matriarch faces a decision to sell the property or fall deeper into financial troubles. Anton Chekov’s play, The Cherry Orchard is considered a classic as it delves into social structures, privilege and class. Both tragic and comedic, this pillar of moder

Photo Credit: Matthew Bryan Pruitt A Christmas Carol Based on the story by Charles Dickens Adapted and written by Kathy Preher Reynolds Directed by Ke’Leb Beauchamp Review by Lan Nguyen-Colgate Entire contents are copyright © 2025 Lan Nguyen-Colgate. All rights reserved. A Christmas Caro l is a timeless play with countless adaptations. The recent production by Highview Arts Center is adapted and written by Kathy Preher Reynolds and directed by Ke’Leb Beauchamp. The story of

Photos by Andrew Kung Group LLC All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Written by Peter Rothstein Vocal Arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach Directed by Kelly Kitchen Review by Jeanne-Marie Rogers Entire contents are copyright © 2025 Jeanne-Marie Rogers. All rights reserved. The opera All Is Calm portrays the events of the “Christmas Truce” of 1914 in a powerfully moving way. The all-male cast shares the words of thirty-nine WWI soldiers, representing both Al

Content Warning: Spring Awakening mentions sexual abuse, child abuse, rape, suicide, abortion, mental health, physical and emotional abuse. Spring Awakening Based on the play by Frank Wedekind Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Directed by Naomi Wayne Review by Kate Barry Entire contents are copyright © 2025 Kate Barry. All rights reserved. What makes a controversial work? Why is it so upsetting? Is the material too offensive? Or is the subject matter so h

Gift of the Magi Written by O.Henry Adapted by Peter Ekstrom Misfit Christmas Written by Jack Wallen Directed by Sharon Kinnison Review by Erin Hargan Entire contents are copyright © 2025 Erin Hargan. All rights reserved. Bunbury Theatre’s holiday offering this season is a night of two one acts plays: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, adapted by Peter Ekstrom (who once lived in Louisville), and Misfit Christmas by local playwright Jack Wallen. The evening opened with a

From left to right: Angelique X. Stacy, Bryan Hoffmann, Mitzi Wood, Tiger Rogers, Rachel Hoffmann, John Lina, Graham Troop The Twelve Murders of Christmas Written by A.S. Waterman Directed by Beth Olliges Review by Loraine Lawson Entire contents are copyright © 2025 Loraine Lawson. All rights reserved. You always think you’ll know exactly what questions to ask when there’s a murder, but TV detectives make it look easy. As I learned at the December 6th production of The Twelv