TheaterMania.com login my profile gold club
Broadway New York Shows & Tickets Discount Tickets News, Reviews and Features Video Music and Showtunes Industry Services
• EXCLUSIVE THEATER DISCOUNTS
• MONTHLY GIVEAWAYS
  SIGN UP FOR FREE
  
 
 
Broadway
Off Broadway
Off-Off Broadway
Boston
Chicago
DC Metro
Florida
Las Vegas
London
Los Angeles
Minneapolis/St. Paul
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Seattle
 
Theater News
Theater Reviews
Feature Stories
Peter Filichia's Diary
News Archives
Boston
Chicago
DC Metro
Florida
Las Vegas
London
Los Angeles
Minneapolis/St. Paul
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Seattle
 Theater News  

Barron, Gross, Nelis, Parisse, et al. Set for Humana Festival

By: Brian Scott Lipton · Feb 6, 2008  · New York

Annie Parisse<br>
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Annie Parisse
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Casting and creative teams have been announced for the first two plays at the 32nd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, to take place February 24-March 30 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Halley Wegryn Gross and Tom Nelis will star in Lee Blessing's Great Falls, about a man who drives across the West with his young stepdaughter. The production will be directed by Lucie Tiberghein and features set design by Paul Owen, costume design by Lorraine Venberg, lighting design by Brian J. Lilienthal, and sound design by Matt Callaghan.

Mia Barron, David Wilson Barnes, Janis Dardaris, and Davis Duffield will join Annie Parisse, who will play the title role in Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, about a newlywed couple who fix up two romantically challenged friends. The production will be directed by Peter DuBois and feature set design by Owen, lighting design by Lilienthal, costume design by Jessica Ford, and sound design by Benjamin Marcum.

The festival will continue with This Beautiful City, a musical by Steven Casson, Jim Lewis, and Michael Friedman of The Civilians, based on interviews done in Colorado Springs; hip-hop performer Marc Bamhuti Joseph's the break/s; Cathy Mensch's All Hail Hurricane Gordo, about two brothers who take in a plucky houseguest; and Jennifer Haley's Neighborhood 3: Requisitions of Doom, about a group of suburban teenagers addicted to an online horror video game; four performances of Game On, co-written by Zakiyah Alexander, Rolin Jones, Alice Tuan, Daryl Wilson, Marisa Wegrzyn, and Ken Weitzman, with music by Jon Spurney, as well as the annual Ten-Minute Plays, which will include works by M. Thomas Cooper, Elaine Jarvik, Michael Lew, and Naomi Wallace.

For more information, call 502-584-1205 or visit www.ActorsTheatre.org.


Share on Facebook


Insider Comments:

--There are no comments posted yet.

Be the first to comment!
sponsor
 
ABOUT THE SHOW
New York
Or,
Liz Duffy Adams' sprightrly farce about 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn gets an excellent production.
Reviewed by: Sandy MacDonald »
The Understudy New York » Children at Play New York »
Quartett New York » Idiot Savant New York »
Nightingale New York » Creature New York »
Made in Heaven New York » The New Electric Ballroom New York »
The Lily's Revenge New York » Finian's Rainbow New York »
Embraceable Me New York » Paula West New York »

Join the TM Insider for FREE!
RSS Feed
By providing information about entertainment and cultural events on this site, TheaterMania.com shall not be deemed to endorse,
recommend, approve and/or guarantee such events, or any facts, views, advice and/or information contained therein.

©1999-2009 TheaterMania.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Click here for a current list of Broadway shows and Broadway ticket discounts.
07:22 PM