Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer.By Hap ErsteinShe has had three of her plays premiere at Florida Stage and one of them -- the apocalyptic comedy, End Days -- had an off-Broadway run last spring.But with her latest work, Sirens, showcased at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Ky., last month, Deborah Zoe Laufer landed on the radar of the nation’s regional … [Read more...]

Brian Russell and Mimi Lieber in Sirens.(Photo by Harlan Taylor)By Hap ErsteinFor the past 34 years, theater companies and critics in search of new plays of quality have been making a pilgrimage to Louisville, Ky., in the early spring as the non-profit resident company Actors’ Theatre of Louisville has rolled out its annual Humana Festival of New American Plays.Over that time, … [Read more...]