For us, March is a month dedicated to the arts. We have been long-time subscribers to both Actor's Theratre of Louisville and the Louisville Orchestra ( http://www.louisvilleorchestra.org/ ). Actor's Theatre ( http://www.actorstheatre.org/ ) is a professional regional theatre that produces plays in the off-broadway mode (that is, plays with a story including serious drama, biographies, comedy, some music). The Kentucky Center for the Arts ( http://www.kentuckycenter.org/ ) is the venue that produces Broadway-style shows (mainly musicals) and concerts. We attend the Kentucky Center shows from time to time but generally prefer the type of plays at Actor's Theatre.
    Actor's signature event is the Humana Festival of New American Plays (sponsored by the Humana Foundation, the charitable arm of the Humana insurance company which is headquartered in Louisville). Every year they select (and sometimes commission) plays that have never been performed yet. As part of our subscription we attend most of the performances.
   We also have a couple of orchestra concerts this month. We attend the Nite Lites series directed by Bob Bernhardt. Tonight's performance is called Wabbits which "features the familiar classics that were featured in cartoons of our youth".
    To add to that this year (and I guess because we are retired and do not have to get up for work the next morning), we also attended the following additional events:
   - a musical at the local dinner-theater venue, Derby Dinner Playhouse ( http://www.derbydinner.com/ )
   - a concert by Vishten at the Ogle Center on the campus of Indiana University Southeast ( http://oglecenter.ius.edu/ ). Vishten performed at the Olympics and is a group from the Canadian martitimes that plays Acadian music with fiddle, guitar, mandolin and lots of stomping feet. Excellent concert!
   - a play at the Bunbury Theratre ( http://www.bunburytheatre.org/ ) which is located in the historic and recently renovated Henry Clay building in downtown Louisville. The main draw of going to this play was the opportunity to see the Henry Clay but we enjoyed the show and the Bunbury Theatre, although small, has a nice facility and a professional presentation.
   So all-in-all this month we will have attended eight plays, three concerts and visited two museums. The month is not over yet!