• Love, not intimidation, rules in Kentucky Shakespeare’s delightful ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on June 23, 2015

    Kentucky Shakespeare‘s “The Taming of the Shrew” is an exceptionally modern take on the misogynistic comedy. A typical solid production of “Shrew” leaves you feeling kind of dirty and bad about yourself for laughing so hard at the expense of a strong woman being brought...

  • Theatre [502] presents Lucas Hnath’s ‘Red Speedo’ at Baron’s Theatre

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on September 6, 2014

    The summary of Lucas Hnath’s play “Red Speedo” on the New Dramatists website reads: “This is a play about men who wear Speedos and swim fast and take drugs so they can swim even faster.” Well, alrighty then. Theatre [502] — who are producing...

  • Kyle Ware’s Kentucky Shakespeare Actor’s Diary: Entry Three

    By Kyle Ware | Posted on June 27, 2014

    Hello, from scenic Central Park in historic Old Louisville and welcome to entry three of Kyle’s Kentucky Shakespeare Actor’s diary. I write to you now from the C. Douglas Ramey stage—at least until the swords start swinging, at which point, I’ll likely relocate. Speaking...

  • Kyle Ware’s Kentucky Shakespeare Actor’s Diary: Entry Two

    By Kyle Ware | Posted on June 12, 2014

    Welcome to entry two of Kyle’s Kentucky Shakespeare Actor’s diary. Opening week, friends! We had our first preview for our first show, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” on Wednesday, and we had a great crowd. You do not want to miss this show. Or the...

  • Kentucky Shakespeare’s 54th Summer Season kicks off in June

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on May 27, 2014

    Last year, Kentucky Shakespeare’s summer season consisted of one production of “Twelfth Night” — which ended its run early amid controversy that eventually led to the artistic director stepping down — along with one student production. This year’s Kentucky Shakespeare’s summer season, helmed by Artistic...

  • Audition for Kentucky Shakespeare spring tour and summer festival

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on November 20, 2013

    Yesterday, Insider Louisville brought you news of the exciting expanded season planned for the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Today, Kentucky Shakespeare has put out an audition call for the 54th Season of Shakespeare in Central Park, a spring tour of “Hamlet” and the company’s various...

  • Louisville-centered serial theatre coming to First Friday Trolley Hops thanks to Theatre [502]

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on June 4, 2013

    Starting Friday and continuing every Republic Bank First Friday Trolley Hop through April 2014, trolley hoppers can add free theatre to their art-filled night with installments of a serial play commissioned and produced by Theatre [502]. The Stranger and Ludlow Quinn, by Steve Moulds...

  • “The Aliens” among us: Theatre [502]’s latest production premieres today

    By Guest Author | Posted on October 5, 2012

    By Chris Ritter @CT_Smash The third and final production of Theatre [502]’s 2012 season, Louisville’s newly crowned “Best Theatre Troupe” is presenting a low strung and slightly strung-out narrative of three hapless outsiders and/or would-be existential geniuses striving for a reason to just do anything...