ABSTRACT
In 1994, the Actors Theatre of Louisville celebrated the grand opening of its third theater, the Bingham: a beautiful, 318-seat arena space and the cornerstone of a $12.5 million revocation project. Adding a third theater provided enhanced production opportunities to the institution, which staged six to ten different productions during its annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. The American regional theater and musicals have been associated with each other ever since an anomaly of an institution produced an anomaly of a musical that became an international success. With the growing popularity of the musical surely it would seem that regional theaters around the country would take full advantage of the increased interest in new musicals following the Hamilton boom. The regional theater movement was created not only to provide communities with the opportunity to see new works alongside classics but also to serve as valuable resources for new plays and playwrights.
