The Kentucky Suffrage Project was created by LFL to lift up under-told stories of Kentucky Women & Suffragists of Color. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, it explores women’s suffrage in Kentucky within the context of the national movement.  It looks at economic, educational, and racial tensions in that movement, as well as […]

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As we all know, this was a rough year all around – and the arts and education sectors were particularly hard-hit.  LFL was no exception, but they persevered.  In addition to having to pivot on all their programming once the Covid pandemic hit, they had to adjust to the loss of 2 Co-Artistic Directors, with […]

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This season was a season full of strategic planning and ground-breaking shows. They were thrilled to work with another Karen Zacarías script, the bilingual play Just Like Us, based on the non-fiction book Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by author and free-lance journalist Helen Thorpe. […]

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LIFECYCLE OF A BLACKBERRY is an original LFL show starring Morgan M. Younge which honors the stories of Black Appalachian women and girls, using as inspiration the books Blackberries, Blackberries, Birds of Opulence, and Perfect Black, written by Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal E. Wilkinson. By lifting up these voices and sharing these unique stories through theatre, we […]

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A very full season indeed, it included a remount of an LFL original – LIFECYCLE OF A BLACKBERRY, the culminating event for THE ANCESTORS PROJECT, the production of company member Clarity Hagan’s new play – JUST CAUSE: THE STORY OF THE LEXINGTON SIX, and touring performances of Rachel Bublitz’s THE BOOK WOMEN, in partnership with […]

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