Pioneer Playhouse of Danville will open for its 74th season under the stars on June 9 with the world premiere production of Blood Suede Shoes: A Sergeant Elvis Presley Murder Mystery, written by Robby Henson, artistic director of the historic theatre his father, Eben C. Henson, founded in 1950. Blood Suede Shoes: A Sergeant Elvis [...]
You might expect to go to a large venue in a big city to see musicians like The Guess Who, Kathy Mattea and Suzy Bogguss, or to see productions like The Pirates of Penzance, Hairspray and Cats. That isn’t the case if you’re talking about the Norton Center, located on the campus of Centre College [...]
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 9 for the Norton Center for the Arts’ 49th Performing Arts Season. Continuing its trend of making arts accessible to everyone, the Norton Center will again be offering tickets starting at $19 to all performances. “World class performing arts experiences are available right here in Danville,” Norton Center Executive [...]
Pioneer Playhouse of Danville continues its 73rd season under the stars with Southern Fried Nuptials, a heartfelt comedy about one quirky family coming together for the oldest daughter’s wedding. The play, which opens on July 5th and runs through July 23rd, was penned by the popular playwriting team of Osborne and Eppler and is a [...]
In 1950, Pioneer Playhouse debuted its first season at Danville’s Darnell State Hospital, now Northpoint Prison. On June 10, 2022, Kentucky’s oldest outdoor theater opens its 73rd season with “Dracula Bites,” a kooky spin on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. More than seven decades of history have been written on the page and the stage of this [...]
Back by popular demand…and funnier than ever! This kooky spin on Bram Stoker’s Dracula will you rolling in the aisles! The struggling Valley Dale Playhouse is in need of a hit, and so it turns to a pompous playwright’s new (and ridiculously serious) take on a classic. But what starts as “real theatre” turns into [...]
A Centre College Theatre Program production, directed by Patrick Kagan-Moore. April 20, 22-23 at 8 p.m. and Apr 24 at 2 p.m. at Weisiger Theatre, Norton Center for the Arts, Danville. $10 Adults. $5 Children/Seniors Box Office: 859-236-4692 Free for Centre students, faculty & staff.
From the zany swing of classic Saturday morning cartoon anarchy, to the sweep of bygone Disney and contemporary smallscreen favorites like The Simpsons, the music that underpins these beloved touchstones is like a universal language. The Queen’s Cartoonists play music from classic cartoons and contemporary animation synchronized to video projections of the original films, leading [...]
