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Davis, Peter A. Ullom, Robert Jeffrey 2015-09-28T22:23:40Z 2015-09-28T22:23:40Z 10000-01-01 2000 2000 288 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. By charting the changes in the festival, several questions will be answered throughout this dissertation: How did the festival succeed? After twenty years of producing new works, Actors Theatre and the Humana Festival have formed a symbiotic relationship---neither able to exist without the other. How was the festival established? How did Actors Theatre of Louisville become dedicated to producing new work? With its success, the Humana Festival helped Actors Theatre attain an international reputation. How has the Humana Festival affected Actors Theatre of Louisville? Although other theatres created new-play programs to compete with the Humana Festival, Actors Theatre's festival remained the premier new-play program in the country. How did Actors Theatre change the festival in order to ensure its commercial and critical success? Has it retained its reputation of featuring America's best plays? Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only (MiAaPQ)AAI9971210 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87931 eng Theater "Off -Louisville": The History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville text University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.