6/1/06

Jamboree Plays, Playwrights and Schedule

2006 Visiting Artists

2006 Workshops

Catch the Spirit of Giving to JLT !

It’s been an exciting 7 years and with your help, we’ll have 7x7 more exciting years! [Click here for more]

Lorna and KAC

Lorna Littleway (l.) and Kentucky Arts Council Executive Director Lori Meadows. [Click here to download print quality photo]

Jamboree Playwrights,

it’s time to submit your work!!! [check the FAQ for guidelines.]

High-ho, high-ho, it’s off to Frankfort we go to Catch the Spirit!

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre also receives funding from Metro Louisville, Council members Cheri Bryant-Hamilton, Jim King, Barbara Shanklin, David Tandy, Leonard Watkins, George Unseld and Mary Woolridge, Target Stores, Dalglish Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

2/3/06

Catch the Spirit of Giving to JLT !

It’s been an exciting 7 years and with your help, we’ll have 7x7 more exciting years! [Click here for more]

DARASA: A Civil Rights Tribute,

Friday January 20, 7pm, Big Hopp’s, 800 W. Market St.! January, along with February and June, are historically significant months in the African-American legacy. The Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the rebellion states, was issued on January 1st, and it is also the month of the late Rev. Martin Luther King’s birth. With the recent passing of Rosa Parks, JLT offers a fundraising program of inspiring scenes and monologues from its repertoire of plays related to the Civil Rights Movement. [Click here for more]

More Ray!! 

Back by popular demand, The Best of the Genius of Ray, an original cabaret, runs for 10 performances, Thursday - Sunday, February 9-19, Big Hopp’s, 800 W. Market Street. [Click here for more]

This show has been cancelled.

Jamboree Playwrights,

it’s time to submit your work!!! [check the FAQ for guidelines.]

Welcome the Kathleen Dalglish Foundation to the JLT Family of Funders!!!!

[To view full list click here]
 
Juneteenth Legacy Theatre receives funding from Metro Louisville, Council members Jim King, David Tandy, Leonard Watkins, George Unseld and Mary Woolridge, Kentucky Arts Council, Target Stores, Dalglish Foundation, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre Opens 7th Season With Ray Charles Tribute

Get ready to clap your hands, tap your toes, and stomp your feet at The Best of the Genius of Ray, with Grenoldo Frazier and Cherita, at Big Hopps, 800 W. Market St., October 20-23, 2005. [Click here for more]

JLT Founder Speaks at Louisville's Spalding University

Founder/Producing Director Lorna Littleway speaks at Spalding University, Sunday Oct.30th.  She will address playwriting students in the MFA Writing Program on "Writing for Traditional and Contemporary Theaters."

Special Thanks to our Sponsors!

Thank you to our 2005/06 funders: Metro Louisville, Kentucky Arts Council, Target Stores and Metro Councillors Jim King, David Tandy, Leonard Watkins, George Unseld, and Mary Woolridge. 

Become a Season Sponsor!

Contribute to a culturally progressive Metro Louisville by supporting JLT! [Click here to find out how.]

See You at the Russell Fall Festival, Saturday Oct. 8th, 11am - 5pm!

JLT joins 34 other non-profit community groups and businesses in Sheppard Park, at Magazine and 17th Streets, for a "Unity in Russell: Mind, Body & Spirit" festival.  There will be free refreshments and entertainment. Stop by and visit! 

JLT Has a New Partner!

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre is now a member of the Louisville Convention Center and Visitors Bureau.  Through this connection, JLT will be able to tap in to the conventions that come to town and offer to conference-goers a unique funky kind of fun.

“As a company we have come full cycle on one of our goals, expanding Juneteenth Legacy Theatre’s reputation as a professional African-American theatre company of regional and national significance!” 

— Lorna Littleway

Fringe Festival Review: The Lives of Young Black Folk: Young Sistas and Bang! Bang!Bang!

Quips, Then Raw Last Thoughts: lively dialogue . . . deftly drawn characters... this played stay with me. [Read full The New York Times Review here]

National Black Theatre Festival Review: Willie & Esther

STAGE SCHEMERS: Plot focuses on Willie & Esther, not the robbery. [Read the full Winston-Salem Journal Review here]

We have new donors!

Metro Council members Leonard Watkins and Cheri Bryant-Hamilton add their support to the 6th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree! [Click here for more]

THANK YOU FOR HELPING TO MAKE THE 6TH ANNUAL JUNETEENTH JAMBOREE A HUGE SUCCESS!  SEE YA NEXT YEAR!! 

6th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree Wrap-up

Click here for photos and our 2005 Apollo winners!

The 6th Annual Juneteenth Jamboree made some news!

Check out the links below:

"It's Juneteenth Time" Judith Eggerton, The Courier Journal

"Juneteenth Jamboree" Rebecca Haithcoat, Leo Weekly

"Two disparate plays share festival stage" Marty Rosen, The Courier Journal
 

Meet our new supporters, the Barth Foundation and others!!! [link to Support JLT]   

Click here for the full list

Your Ultimate Jam HQ!

Jamboree Plays, Playwrights and Schedule

Founder/Producer's Message

Printable Jamboree Calendar

2005 Visiting Artists

Apollo Flier

Bazaar Flier

Apollo/Bazaar entry form

JLT at the Fringe Festival in August!

Two Jamboree plays, Bang! Bang! Bang! (2004), and Young Sistas (2003) will be presented at the famed NYC International Fringe Festival, Aug. 12 - 28.

For more information go to www.fringenyc.org

Southern Arts Registry promotes JLT in June!

SouthernArtistry, a showcase spotlighting the diversity and achievements of outstanding artists who live and work in the South, spotlights JLT. For more information, visit www.southernartistry.org or view our online portfolio here.

Help us save $$$$ with your Email Address!

Receive your JLT newsletter sooner and at less cost to JLT (no postage, label, and printing costs) by sending your email address to juneteenthlegacy@aol.com
 

We have new donors!

[Click here] to see the 2005 donors and how you can join the list!

2003 Jamboree play produced at Black Spectrum Theater in NYC

Willie and Esther plays to sold-out houses! [Click here] to read all about it.

Littleway Joins ACA Executive Board!

Louisville is a city that clearly cares deeply about the arts, and I feel honored to be invited to serve on the executive board of the Arts and Cultural Attractions Council of Greater Louisville, Inc.[click here for more]

Welcome Back, Regina!

Regina Lang returns to Louisville. "...now it’s time to come back home to Louisville and Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, where I am a board member, and explore new ventures."[Click here for more.]

Playwrights, it's time to submit your scripts for the Juneteenth Jamboree!

Whether you are an established or emerging playwright, we want to read your script.  The submission period is December 15th to April 15th.   There is a $15 script processing/reading fee. [Click here for FAQ page and details.]

We have new donors!

[Click here] to see the 2005 donors and how you can join the list!

Jam Preview!

[Click here] to see what's on tap for our 6th annual Jamboree.

Bold Journeys Wrap-up

We recently completed our most satisfying and successful Bold Journeys Tour over Presidents Weekend, February 17 - 19. [Click here] to read all about it.

Youth Cultural Enrichment Project (YCEP) Salutes Zora Neale Hurston

Children from the Beecher Terrace Housing Project performed their adaptation of Tall Tales, based on Zora Neale Hurston's folklore about animals, at the Brown School. [Click here] for more.

JLT Celebrates Women’s Herstory in the Land of Citrus!!!!!

There’s more to Orlando than Disney, I learned, during a visit to the University of Central Florida to headline Women’s Herstory Month celebrations. [Click here for article.]