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There has never been anything like Toyer, but of course, every time there never is.

The Actors Theatre of Louisville s annual Humana Festival has been the showcase of the best, freshest and most avant-garde American plays for the past 17 years. A tribute to the American playwright, The Great Monologues from the Humana Festival offers up the finest monologues to be found in American plays first performed at the Festival from 1977 throughout 1991.

In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging, crude patriarch, his ineffectual brother Sam and two of Max's three sons, both unmarried- Lenny, a small-time pimp and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son Teddy, now a successful professor of philosophy in America and his wife Ruth who is to meet the family for the first time leading up to insidiously bizarre accusations and proposals by the men to Ruth

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs.

Set in Sunnyside, Queens in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City, the comedy features nuns, a political bombing, a GI headed for Vietnam, a zookeeper who dreams of making it big in Hollywood as a songwriter, and his wife Bananas, a schizophrenic destined for the institution that provides the play's title.

A family of five meets for Thanksgiving dinner in the apartment that a daughter shares with her new boyfriend

Consists of the play Red, Scissors, A Beautiful Country and Wonderland by Chay Yew.

The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams

Unit set It's 1965 and two comedians, "Steady Eddie" & "Doug the Mug," knock 'em dead every night in the Catskills. Punchlines and cheap shots fly -- on stage and off -- as Doug and Ed battle for the spotlight over a decade, pushing each other to the cusp of a new direction of stand up comedy. With their personal and professional lives uncovered at center stage, Eddie and Doug must find a way to laugh it off while staying at the top of their game. Sam Marks' The Joke takes a look at the friendship and the rivalry between two comic partners during the golden years of the Borscht Belt. "A tasty two-hander by Sam Marks...A comedy team working the Catskills in the 1960s and '70s, getting few laughs while undergoing all the stresses of a doomed marriage...And just as in a marriage in which one half of the couple changes while the other stays the same, the relationship deteriorates. Allusions to a woman and to the historical context as the '60s give way to the '70s are tantalizing but not overdone; the focus stays on the two men.

When widowhood comes to American middle-aged women, only those prepared for a career have any chance for happiness.