Ten Good Reasons to Visit Pioneer Playhouse NOW!
by Candance Chaney
Copyright © 2006 Lexington Nougat magazine
Reason #6: You just may snort your pink-lemonade out your nose. Seriously, these shows are hysterical. Unless you are a sinister wretch who cheered when Old Yeller died, it will be impossible not to laugh...the material is very accessible to a wide audience. You could bring your granny or your ten year old niece or your five best gay boy friends and they would all be sporting goofy grins at curtain.
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The New York Times profiles Col. Henson
By Randy Kennedy
Copyright© 1999 The New York Times
The name -- Col. Eben C. Henson -- conjures up images from Faulkner, of a
grand Southern gentleman with a hunting dog at his feet.
But one morning last weekend, the stocky, gimlet-eyed 76-year-old could be
found on West 44th Street, up a flight of carpeted stairs, perched on a wobbly
chair in a theatrical audition room. At his feet was a young actress, who had
asked permission to splay herself on the ground, maybe to give a little more
emotional depth to the monologue she was about to begin. READ
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Eben Henson–A dramatic life remembered
(January 27, 1923 - April 25, 2004)
A Brief Biography
Colonel Eben Henson was best known as the founder of Pioneer Playhouse, Kentucky’s
oldest outdoor theater which he started in 1950 near Danville, Kentucky and
ran continuously for 54 years.
Lacking sufficient funds to build a stage, Henson tenaciously relied on used
or abandoned materials. He once traded a fifth of whisky for support beams
and often joked that he was the first person to promote recycling. His theater’s
distinctive gingerbread ticket office was lifted from the set of the MGM Civil
War epic Raintree County. READ REST OF BIOGRAPHY >>
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