Celebrate the completion of the Shakespeare canon of plays with us on May 13, 3-7pm for a pop-up Renaissance Faire! Renaissance Faire May 13, 3-7pm 1123 Payne Street Please join us for this free event! We’ll have circus performers from Cirque Louis on stilts and eating fire and tumbling, larger-than-life… read more →
We were very proud to work with a host of Louisville’s brightest lights on a video saluting the amazing work of 41 years of Walden Theatre Conservatory students. Take a look at the video below, and stay to the closing credits for a fun treat! Thank you to… read more →
Thanks to the Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at Fund for the Arts, CTC was able to build capacity for our programming by enabling the hire of much-needed full-time staff. The gift, a strategic grant of $20,000, helped us add Meg Caudill to our full-time ranks, and she’s been busy! This year, she’s worked with… read more →
Please join Commonwealth Theatre Center for a memorable May as we complete the full canon of Shakespeare’s plays! It’s been a long time coming (41 years, in fact!), and with this year’s Young American Shakespeare Festival our company becomes the first theatre conservatory for young people in the world to reach this awesome… read more →
Rodes City Run The race course for this event on March 18 encircles our location, and official street closures are posted to run through 11:00am. But the course WILL REOPEN to vehicle traffic as soon as racers have moved along. By 9:15, people will be able to use Barret or Baxter to… read more →
For the rest of my life. For the rest of my life, this will be part of the story I tell. Girl meets boy, girl can’t remember what happened, and no one is talking. But everyone has “a friend” who was there or knows… read more →
CTC was grateful once again to invite the students of Summit Academy of Greater Louisville to see one of our MainStage shows. This one was Cyrano de Bergerac earlier this month. They brought lunches for after the show, then it was back into the theatre to chat directly with our company of young actors.… read more →
Louisville Metro Police are responding to an alleged assault that occurred around 1:30pm near our Payne Street facility. Details are limited for now, but the incident is currently being investigated. Police have informed us that they do not yet have a suspect in custody and that there’s no further information… read more →
Already this semester, CTC’s Blue Apple Outreach staff have been busy at Summit Academy of Greater Louisville working on our second year of residencies with these amazing students. Last week we had an opportunity to document a little of what’s happening in the Exploring History through Drama residency for 8th graders. Exploring… read more →
Commonweath Theatre Center is proud to present the Young Playwrights Festival 2017 featuring a series of short plays written by the students in the Playwrighting program at the Walden Theatre Conservatory. Each play delivers a miniature plot and a rapid-fire reveal on an imagined world featuring ideas relevant to young people, and… read more →