Happy New Year! In 2026, Shannon and Alyssa want to see more theatre, and they hope you do too! Here's what to expect in January:

Alyssa will be seeing and reviewing Kentucky Shakespeare's Emma at Actor's Theatre, Shannon will be seeing and reviewing The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical at Stage One.

Subscribe to the Parking Lot Talks Podcast and Substack to read the reviews and share in the conversation and view our Google Calendar of all the shows we know about in Kentuckiana. You can also email us about your show or one you love to add to the calendar at [email protected]

If you want to follow Alyssa somewhere she's online almost everywhere @alyraehe

If you want to follow Shannon somewhere, you can't, because she gave up social media years ago!

In this episode of Parking Lot Talks, Shannon tries to persuade Alyssa to put Louisville Ballet's Nutcracker on her calendar for next year's holiday season.

In this episode of Parking Lot Talks Alyssa tries to convince Shannon to see A Christmas Carol at Highview Arts Center. There's ghosts with glitter, and grandpa's in wigs, and even though it doesn't all make sense or resolve, can Alyssa convince Shannon it's worth a watch?

Shannon and Alyssa love live theatre and think you should too. Every year they see dozens of performances throughout the Louisville, KY area and have spent hours talking about them in their cars after the show. In their podcast, Parking Lot Talks, they'll try to convince each other to see shows, whether they liked them or not. Maybe they'll convince you too along the way.

We finally saw live theatre! And we loved it. Romeo and Juliet took us down memory lane of all the versions we've seen and how to show difficult topics on stage. As a heads up, we talk about several serious themes in this episode, including suicide and sexual assault. If that's something that may trigger you, please skip this episode; we'll catch you next time!

From the winter archive, on this week's episode of Parking Lot Talks, Shannon and Alyssa are discuss being mooned by a TA, university theatre, and all the shows they saw in 2015.

In this episode of Parking Lot Talks, Shannon and Alyssa tackle a year in their theatre lives.

Happy 2021? Maybe...In this episode of Parking Lot Talks, Shannon and Alyssa talk balance.

In this episode of Parking Lot Talks, Shannon and Alyssa talk about the first and potentially only pandemic performance they've seen, Macbeth

In this episode of Parking Lot Talks, Shannon and Alyssa talk about the holidays, and books, and liking things even when you have valid critiques of them.