Henderson Area Arts Alliance

11/05/2026

All we can say is... wow! 🤩

Henderson showed up in the BIGGEST way for our Broadway tour of Hadestown on October 25th, and we truly cannot put into words how grateful we are for our community.

Please join us in thanking everyone who impacted us deeply through this show:

Through our sponsors, we were able to afford the artist fees for this show, which is what is able to bring the show to your community. Thank you to our season sponsors: Raymond B. Preston Family Foundation, Owensboro Health, and the Beaven Family Foundation.

In addition to the season sponsors who support year round arts programming, we want to thank our show sponsors. These people chose to specifically sponsor the performance of Hadestown, which allowed us to continue providing all the hospitality and labor needed for this tour to make their time here their home away from home. Thank you to Jim David Meats, HMPL Fiber and Dawn & John Kelsey for their outstanding support!

Next, we cannot have a show without food to keep both our team and performers nourished. A HUGE thank you to Tacoholics, Golden Corral & Job Corps Culinary Department for providing high-quality, tasty food for our talent. Not only is their food tasty, but it's LOCAL!

There are truly no words to express the gratitude we feel towards all volunteers and ushers who helped during the show. They work to keep things running smoothly and to create a true theatrical experience for our audience. A special thank you to the WARM Center for bringing their friends to help usher, former HAAA Board Member Dana Allen Harvey for helping with Merch Sales in the lobby, and all the volunteers & board members who assisted with Box Office, & Half-Pot.

Thank you to Henderson KY Pride Inc. for providing concessions, and to Cap & Cork for their bar services, to Henderson County Schools for providing lovely art pieces to view in our Stagg Room based on the performance of Hadestown, and to Dick & Sheila Beaven alongside Acropolis Catering & Food Truck for throwing an open pre-show party in the Stagg Room for our patrons to enjoy. Acropolis had the biggest display of Greek food offerings & it was absolutely breathtaking. If you loved their food, please go and leave them a review on Google or their page!

Lastly, thank you to all the community members who showed up to help with backstage work. Henderson is a community that deeply loves the arts, and Hadestown proved it.

We know that Hadestown is a tragic love story, but did you know that a proposal happened after the show in the HAAA Staff offices? Theatre never fails to bring people together!!

As we head into the next show of our season, The Boy Band Project, please share any pictures you took during Hadestown down in the comments! Continue to help support the arts by following us on social media, sharing our posts, or leaving us a Google review.

We will never be able to thank Henderson enough, so please take these words to heart and know that the Henderson Area Arts Alliance will always be available for everyone to see out their dreams, learn about theatre, and continue to experience the breathtaking emotions that the live performing arts bring us.

With love, HAAA ❤️❤️❤️❤️

10/31/2026

October was a wild ride! We want to highlight all the exciting ways HAAA showed up in the community this month:

* We taught 20 young theapians about Failing Big on Stage with a free theatre basics class at the Henderson County Public Library- they danced up a sweat and practiced being brave! Our friends Ms. Emily and Mrs. Travis from Jefferson Elementary School joined in on the fun as well!

* October’s HLI class was full of social media wisdom from the fabulous minds at the Henderson Tourist Commission!

* Kensington and her daughter attended the Women in Bloom event hosted by the Henderson KY Chamber of Commerce. What a beautiful night of women honoring women!

* Kensington visited the cast of Matilda at Jefferson Elementary to work on theatre skills that will help them shine on stage!

* HAAA joined dozens of Henderson “pop icons” to help raise funds for the United Way of Henderson County. The Arts Alliance was well represented on stage by two board members, Mark Chumbler and Greg A Gibson, and ED Kensington Paige. Kensington also presented about how special it is to be a funded partner with the United Way and how those funds supported an incredible summer camp experience for 80 local children. The whole cast brought the house down for a great cause!

* HAAA staff and former board members attended Henderson KY Pride Inc.’s Haus of Drag for fun and Hadestown promotion!

* HAAA staff and volunteers got to meet thousands of people at Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden’s Boo at the Zoo. We are so grateful to the volunteers that spent their evenings handing out candy, bracelets, pens, pencils and brochures to all the adorable ghosts and goblins that visited the zoo!

* Hadestown finally happened and we’re still saying WOW. We are going to make a much longer post just for Hadestown tomorrow for the final post of October- stay tuned!

* Kensington and River represented HAAA at Job Spark for Junior Achievement where thousands of eighth graders from surrounding counties visited to learn about different careers and trades. Students participated in activities that highlighted different jobs in the performing arts and got to ask questions about theatre as a career. They even got to see some of the summer campers from this year and last year!

10/30/2026

Transport back to a time when the boy band phenomenon dominated pop culture and TRL was appointment television! Up next is The Boy Band Project!

🎤Friday, November 20 - 7pm at the Preston Arts Center

Delivered with their own special mix of handsomeness, tongue-in-cheek humor, and Broadway talent, these boys have been seen all over the world spreading their boy band love. Even if you’ve never demolished a Trapper Keeper notebook with pictures of your favorite boy ba**er, this show will make you party like it’s 1999 before you can say Bye, Bye, Bye!

Featuring music by NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, One Direction, 98 Degrees, O-town, BoyzIIMen, Jonas Brothers and more. This musical thrill-fest features a group of boys direct from Broadway’s Wicked, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, The Book of Mormon, Altar Boyz, and Rock of Ages.

Tickets starting at $25 for students and $45 for single tickets. Visit haaa.org to grab yours today!

www.theboybandproject.net

10/27/2026

Congratulations to the winner of the Hadestown halfpot, Mr. Dick Beaven! Dick graciously decided to donate his winnings back to the Henderson Area Arts Alliance- thank you for supporting the arts!

10/25/2026

Attention ticket holders for Hadestown:

As they say, the show must go on! This evening's performance of Hadestown will now begin at 8 pm instead of 7 pm. Doors to the Preston Arts Center lobby will open as planned at 6 pm and the lobby will be available for 2 hours before the new 8:00 pm start time.

Come ready to enjoy concessions from Henderson Pride, a preshow party in the lobby provided by Dick & Sheila Beaven and Acropolis, a bar provided by Cap & Cork, a fantastic photo backdrop designed by Michele Rose, art provided by the Gifted & Talented Students of the Henderson School Corporation, the Wildlife Exhibit presented by the Ohio Valley Arts League, and our half pot raffle which is guaranteed to be a big one! The winner of this raffle will be drawn on Tuesday, October 27th and contacted via phone call to be notified.

Doors into McCormick Hall (the theatre itself) will open at 7:30 pm at the earliest for the 8 pm start time.

We appreciate your patience with this unexpected delayed start time and value each and every one of you and your support for the arts. Thank you, and we’ll see you at the show!

10/24/2026

Get your tickets now for the tour of Hadestown at haaa.org!

10/24/2026

These pics were taken at the APAP conference in 2026 in NYC when Kensington went to book shows for the upcoming season. Negotiations were already in the works for Hadestown, and she took these pictures in the hopes that the stars would align and this incredible show would be coming to Henderson.

And now?

27 hours until a show that has been in the works for almost a year.

27 hours until our community comes together for an incredible performing arts experience.

27 hours left to get one of the few remaining seats before they’re gone.

27 hours until you “come see what the world could be.” 🖤❤️

10/23/2026

20 seats left on the floor.

125 left in the balcony.

And that's IT.

If you've purchased your tickets, you're good to go. If not, grab your seats to Hadestown now before they're gone, because the ticket orders keep coming in!