Written and Directed by Doug Schutte 

At Bard Theatre December 8-23  
(Please note: We've moved the show's start time from 7:30 to 8 PM this year to make dining and pre-show drinks stress-free)

TICKETS
$20 Advanced
$18 Students and Senior Citizens (students must have valid student ID when redeeming ticket)
$25 At The Door.  

All ticket sales final. 
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The Kings are back this December for more holiday hilarity!
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Yes, "The Kings of Christmas" returns for its 12th--and most likely final-- year on the Bard stage. With critics and audiences calling it "a Louisville holiday tradition" and "flat-out brilliant," it's no wonder KINGS has eclipsed 125 performances and run for more than a decade. 

2022 KINGS CAST
Carol - Abby Braune
Wendy - Meghan Logue Holland
Carter - Corey Music
Frank/Stein - Doug Schutte
Kennedy - Joey Eberling
Carter - Tony Smith

KINGS PRESS
"Louisville has a lot of theatrical holiday traditions, starting with The Nutcracker, but The Kings of Christmas is the only one that's homegrown." - Courier Journal

"A holiday show that has become a Louisville holiday tradition...one of the funniest shows you’ll see this holiday season. It’s a brilliant riff on Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol." - LEO Weekly

"The Kings of Christmas by Doug Schutte is a must-see. If you don’t have a ticket, buy immediately — if you still can. If you can’t, you might consider bribery. Or theft. Or blanketing your social media connections in hopes that somebody who has a ticket will come down with something… The years have not diminished the ingenious intoxicating pleasures of this holiday treat." - LEO Weekly (2018)

"Comic Writing of a high order" - LEO Weekly

​"The madcap opening moments of Kings are flat-out brilliant – and the rest of the play lives up to the opening. This is among the best-written, best-executed riffs on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol you’ll ever see." - LEO Weekly 2018
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"The first half of the play is a courtroom comedy like none other, with Uncle Frank as prosecutor (channeling his courtroom idol, Ben Matlock), Wendy as an earnestly impulsive defense attorney (who repeatedly objects to her own inappropriate remarks) and a judge and jury made from poster board cutouts. The highlight of the trial is an intricate series of Rashomon-like reenactments that depict various accounts of Marley’s demise. These scenes are comic writing of a high order – and the ensemble revels in the shape-shifting variations." - LEO Weekly 2018 (Read the full review here)

"One of the funniest shows you'll ever see" - Arts Louisville