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The dark side of the American experience dominates Jon Jory's farewell edition of the Humana Festival

"The American theatre is in a shitload of trouble!" proclaims the stage manager in Jane Martin's new play, Anton in Show Business, which premiered at this year's Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The play's first line succinctly states theatre professionals' communal fear that the American theatre is a dying art. But while the play goes on to skewer every aspect of the theatre world, the 24-year-old Humana Festival itself is proof positive that the ...

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