October 2024
Untimely Ripp’d: an immersive macabre Macbeth experience
Continuing our Halloween production tradition, Kentucky Shakespeare presents a new immersive experience inside our headquarters in Old Louisville. Utilizing headphone technology, audience members will move throughout an interactive production inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Kentucky Shakespeare commissioned playwrights Diana Grisanti and Steve Moulds to create this hour-long sensory event, conceived by the pair with director Matt Wallace.
Find out more »November 2024
Bakes for Shakes: an Interfaith Challah Bake to Support Camp Shakespeare
Join us for a new fundraising event to support the new Puck’s Scholars Fund and send more kids to Kentucky Shakespeare's Camp Shakespeare! Bakes for Shakes is an interfaith challah bake dreamed up by Fay, a 12-year-old alumni of Camp Shakespeare. At the event, we will make challah dough from provided ingredients that you can then take home to bake. Listen to some fun music, talk about the tradition of challah baking, and get a peak into what Camp Shakespeare is all…
Find out more »December 2024
Old Louisville Holiday Home Tour
Kentucky Shakespeare is participating in the Holiday Home Tour this year! Returning on the first full weekend in December, the Holiday Home Tour gives visitors a rare glimpse inside these historic Victorian mansions and townhouses stylishly dressed for the holidays. Every ticket purchase supports the mission of the Old Louisville Neighborhood Council and preserves the legacy of the Old Louisville historic preservation district.
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Kentucky Shakespeare is participating in the Holiday Home Tour this year! Returning on the first full weekend in December, the Holiday Home Tour gives visitors a rare glimpse inside these historic Victorian mansions and townhouses stylishly dressed for the holidays. Every ticket purchase supports the mission of the Old Louisville Neighborhood Council and preserves the legacy of the Old Louisville historic preservation district.
Find out more »January 2025
The Importance of Being Earnest
Kentucky Shakespeare presents our first production on the Actors Theatre of Louisville stage this January, with a perfect post-holiday pick-me-up! Oscar Wilde’s delightful comedy, subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, sparkles with vibrant characters, mistaken identities, and farcical antics. When bachelors Jack and Algernon both create alter egos named “Ernest,” the lies quickly spiral into chaos, hilarity, cucumber sandwiches, and Victorian handbags. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience what the London Telegraph calls “the most perfect comedy in the English…
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