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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Friday, December 15, 2023

Quick, Tell a Teen to 🏆 Access to the Arts with Arts Angle Vantage by Elizabeth Kramer

2024 workshop deadline nears • Join our community. Stay in the know.

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 03:23PM
Saturday, November 18, 2023

upstart crow collective’s Inventive ‘King John’ Illuminates the Treachery, Costs and Loss of War by Elizabeth Kramer

“Three corners of the world in arms,” a phrase at the end of Williams Shakespeare’s “King John” aptly applies to our current reality and marks a timely production from upstart crow…

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 08:50AM
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Review: “Party People” and its deep history of activism from half a century ago resonates today by Elizabeth Kramer

By Elizabeth Kramer “I wish you would just try to see that the world is shifting again.” In the musical docudrama, “Party People” at Actors Theatre of Louisville, this appeal comes f…

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 08:32PM
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

'Castor and Patience' opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership by Elizabeth Kramer

Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Sp…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:33AM
Friday, February 18, 2022

Free Pop-Up Youth Arts Journalism Workshop, Week of Feb. 21 by Elizabeth Kramer

Participants get to report on glass art and the artists in the KMAC Museum exhibit “Crafting the Vernacular”

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 12:43PM
Friday, February 11, 2022

Review: With ‘Every Brilliant Thing,' a one-person play, Actors Theatre reaches out, connects in real ways by Elizabeth Kramer

Thanks for reading Louisville Arts Bureau! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. • By Elizabeth Kramer "Imagination is more important than knowledge,” Albert Einst…

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 12:11PM
Friday, February 4, 2022

Actors Theatre aims to spark conversation, joy with 'Every Brilliant Thing,' which delves into a life shaped by depression by Elizabeth Kramer

The production marks an Actors Theatre directorial debut for new staff member Amelia Acosta Powell. Actor Jon Norman Schneider returns to the theater's stage.

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 05:32PM
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Pandora's "The Cake" follows recipe in serving up the sugar — balanced with nutrients by Elizabeth Kramer

• If you enjoy articles about regional arts and creativity, share them and/or sign up.• By Elizabeth Kramer Red velvet cake, even outside the South, can stand as a metaphor for the peopl…

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 04:59PM
Monday, August 31, 2020

Summer Project | Art of collaboration with young arts journalists and local media covering GSA by Elizabeth Kramer

Arts Bureau Edge wraps up project wtih five journalists covering Kentucky Govenor's School for the Arts, which went virtual during a tumultuous pandemic

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 01:06PM
Friday, August 14, 2020

Harlan Ascending: Artist’s work grows with monument to Breonna Taylor, survey about equity in arts and culture sector by Elizabeth Kramer

Her public art in front of Metro Hall includes poetry by Hannah Drake and the survey she has spearheaded poses serious questions about Louisville’s arts community

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:00AM
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Louisville photographer’s work tells local immigrant story as part of ‘PBS American Portrait’ that airs in August by Elizabeth Kramer

Amira Karaoud sought to tell the immigrant story for the upcoming special “Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story” that premieres Aug. 2

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 04:10PM
Friday, July 17, 2020

Speed Museum’s Contemporary Curator to Depart for Denver’s Contemporary Art Museum by Elizabeth Kramer

Highlights of Miranda Lash’s six-year tenure include the exhibit “Southern Accent,” bringing new works by diverse artists to the museum’s collection

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 12:54AM
Friday, July 3, 2020

Virtual Version of Kentucky’s Prestigious Youth Arts Program Kicks Off by Elizabeth Kramer

Part of a series of articles from Arts Bureau Edge, a youth arts journalism program, that is working virtually now during the Covid-19 pandemic

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 01:27PM

Reporters Covering Virtual Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts by Elizabeth Kramer

Reporters are part of Arts Bureau Edge, a youth arts journalism program, that is working virtually now with the Covid-19 pandemic

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 01:03PM
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Louisville Visual Art's incoming executive director brings years of experience leading visual art organizations by Elizabeth Kramer

Kristian Anderson led the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle-based Association of Academic Museums and Galleries

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 04:58PM
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

StageOne Family Theatre names Andrew Harris as new producing artistic director by Elizabeth Kramer

Pick of theater’s 20-year veteran comes five months after departure of former leader Idris Goodwin who left to become director of Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:00AM
Monday, June 8, 2020

Video uses Bard's “Merchant of Venice” to illustrate outrage over Floyd's murder; garners social media attention by Elizabeth Kramer

Actor behind video familiar to audiences of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Kentucky Shakespeare, StageOne Family Theatre

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:00AM
Friday, May 29, 2020

StageOne Family Theatre pivots with July summer camps, new ideas brewing for 2020-21 season by Elizabeth Kramer

Summer camps more than half full; next season's show likely to combine in-person/virtual experiences

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 12:08PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Governor’s School for the Arts goes virtual; Organizers tap into inventive inspiration by Elizabeth Kramer

Incoming students, while disappointed, eager to meet creative peers, instructors

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:50AM
Thursday, April 30, 2020

First YPAS choral teacher, leader in Louisville’s music community, David Brown, dies at 74 by Elizabeth Kramer

Former students went on to careers of all kinds, including education

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:50AM
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Commonwealth Theatre Center considers losses amid pandemic, looks to summer, next season by Elizabeth Kramer

Company considers using video, streaming in programs; scheduling of high-earning summer camps; opening next season with Shakespeare festival

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 04:16PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Artists working in Kentucky among 2020 Guggenheim Fellows by Elizabeth Kramer

Poet Ada Limón, Photographer Stacy Krantiz awarded at an unstable time for artists

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 03:21PM
Thursday, April 9, 2020

How must a show go online? Playwright questions costs to artists, theater in the virtual world by Elizabeth Kramer

Here's why playwright Morgan Gould declined a contract with Actors Theatre giving it the rights to stream “Nicole Clark is Having a Baby.”

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 12:15PM

Actors Theatre pivots with streaming, explores virtual experiences, reworking next season by Elizabeth Kramer

Layoffs follow Humana Festival cancellation, further reduces staff in uncertain time

SOURCE: artsbureau.substack.com at 06:50AM
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

'Blind Injustice' Opera Sets Out To Open Eyes About Wrongful Conviction Rates by Elizabeth Kramer

Based on former federal prosecutor Mark Godsey's book of the same title, the new opera Blind Injustice draws on detailed interviews with exonerees to put America's criminal justice system on…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:03PM
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Actors Theatre of Louisville's "Our Town" starring BRUCE McKENZIE & REBEKAH BROCKMAN lovingly captures Wilder's play. by Elizabeth Kramer

Les Waters' production features the play's small joys like the intangible warmth that love exudes most notably in the honesty that REBEBAH BROCKMAN brings to her role as "Emily."

SOURCE: www.courier-journal.com at 03:00PM
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Seth on Broadway | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com by Elizabeth Kramer

Broadway has gone through some dramatic changes since Seth Rudetsky saw his first musical there. It was "Hair" in 1972, shortly before the show closed. Rudetsky was 4.

SOURCE: www.courier-journal.com at 04:45AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards