Director Joe Ferrell, right, chatted with actors Walter Tunis, left, also a Herald-Leader contributing music writer, and Adam Luckey, center, chatted with during a rehearsal of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The play opens SummerFest on Wednesday. It will be followed by Lord of the Flies and Hair. Photo by Rich Copley | staff
SummerFest organizers plan for Act II
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
The first edition of SummerFest couldn't have happened last year without the Lexington Shakespeare Festival.
The music of that old-time religion
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Evan Sullivan is working the edge of the stage at the Carriage House Theatre, trying to whip an imaginary crowd into a spirited rendition of the classic hymn Bringing in the Sheaves.
It's not an act
Rich Copley Herald-Leader Culture Columnist
Ed Desiato will be the first person to tell you he's no John Barrymore. ”I'm not an idiot,“ Desiato says in a gravelly voice deepened by cigarettes and with a lingering New York accent. ”There was only one John Barrymore.
'The Merry Wives of Windsor': A lovely marriage of talent, setting and direction
By Candace Chaney Contributing Theater Critic
With the second edition of Actors Guild of Lexington’s Shakespeare at Equus Run, director Anthony Haigh continues the vision that first began with last summer’s play, Love’s Labour’s Lost, in this summer’s production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. That vision emphasizes quality over quantity, substance over spectacle, and an attitude of let’s get our hands dirty and deeply engage the material.
For Tonys, one critic names the deserving — and the more deserving
By Michael Kuchwara Associated Press
It's crystal-ball time. I've been wrong before — and I will be wrong again — but there always is room for predictions and a wish list of 2008 Tony Award winners.Stage+Dance
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