Random acts of keenness
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Who needs methamphetamines when you can have government economic development grants? That's the philosophy that the residents of Random, Ky., a little town up in a holler, developed in playwright Elizabeth Orndorff's mind.
Comedian's making it without sex jokes or sitcom
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Back in the 1990s, Brian Regan was making his way through the comedy club circuit, dreaming of graduating to theater gigs.Broadway's 'Legally Blonde' to close Oct. 19
Associated Press
Elle Woods, Broadway's prime example of girl power, is leaving Broadway next month. Legally Blonde The Musical , which launched Lexington native Laura Bell Bundy to stage stardom, will close Oct. 19 at the Palace Theatre after a run of 595 performances, producer Hal Luftig announced Wednesday.
Actors Guild names Kimberly Shaw managing director
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Actors Guild of Lexington has hired Kimberly Shaw as its managing director.
Playing solitary
By Josh Kegley jkegley@herald-leader.com
American poet Emily Dickinson lived a solitary and reclusive life. It seems only appropriate, then, that the play about her life is a one-woman show.
'Constant Star': It takes five actors to portray activist
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Late in the first act of Actors Guild of Lexington's production of Constant Star, Cathy Rawlings portrays Ida B. Wells dreaming of a life of peace and dignity and then describing a lynching in graphic detail.
'Don’t Dress for Dinner' is what it is: fun theater
By Candace Chaney Contributing Theater Critic
Director Gary McCormick has crafted a solid show with a refreshing lack of pretense. It is what it is — pure, ridiculous hilarity — and no more.
Arts Preview: Actor Adam Luckey
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
If Lexington had a star actor, a veritable Tom Cruise or George Clooney of Bluegrass stages, it would be Adam Luckey.
Arts Preview: Choreographer Peggy Stamps
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Peggy Stamps has been the woman behind the moves in some of the biggest song-and-dance shows in Lexington.Arts Preview: Dance and movement calendar
Dance and movement events through May 31, 2009.
'Dazzled' by her story
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
For the past decade, Tazewell Thompson has been introducing theatergoers to Ida B. Wells. Most people don't know much about Wells when they settle into their seats to see his musical biography of her, Constant Star, which opens this weekend at Actors Guild of Lexington for a four-weekend run. Thompson himself didn't know more than her name until he watched a PBS documentary on the civil rights and women's suffrage advocate who launched a relentless campaign against lynching in post-Civil War America.Director returns for 'Dinner'
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
For years, Gary McCormick was a mainstay of the Lexington theater scene, particularly in productions at Studio Players.Coming Sunday: 2008-09 Arts Preview
On Sunday, LexGo.com and the Herald-Leader will publish the 2008-09 Arts Preview, with exhaustive listings of what's coming this season in theater and comedy, classical and pop music, dance and movement, and visual arts and museums.
In print, you'll find 14 pages of listings, along with profiles of five people who make a living bringing you the arts. Online, you'll get that plus a multimedia presentation showing those people at work.Look for it Sunday in Arts and Life in print and at LexGo.com online.