At Humana, digging deep for quality

Chicago Tribune: "Ever more, it seems, the storied Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville is being undermined by a confusion of purpose. The agents, critics, artistic directors and other national theater professionals who've been arriving here every spring for years come mostly to find the viable, exportable and, above all, buzz-worthy play. Yet Marc Masterson, this theater's artistic director, hates the Kentucky Derby aspect of the festival he inherited from founder Jon Jory. Masterson prefers to program intensely experimental works -- often with quirky, fantastical themes and with storytelling low on the list of priorities."