Second City: The first name in satire
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Shad Kunkle went from Iowa to Chicago hoping to make it to the Super Bowl. But he wasn't playing for Da Bears. He wanted to get to the Second City comedy troupe.
No role too small in 'Oz'
By Mary Meehan mmeehan1@herald-leader.com
Being a munchkin in a professional production of The Wizard of Oz is worthy of a good, high-pitched squeal. And when the news was announced a few weeks ago that a dozen students at Lexington's Diana Evans School of Dance would be on stage and in costume when Dorothy and company comes to the Lexington Opera House Nov. 6 to 8, there was pandemonium.
Latest production has special meaning for LCT directing duo
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
For most people, a play about a pig would not be the ideal way to celebrate more than three decades of wedded bliss or a grand reunion. But Larry and Vivian Snipes' union was made in children's theater, and Lexington Children's Theatre's current production of If You Give a Pig a Pancake comes as they have passed three decades at LCT and reunite with the theater where they met.
Two ways to do the 'Time Warp'
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
The kids at the Berea College Theatre Laboratory are presenting The Rocky Horror Show, the original 1973 Richard OBrien musical that started it all. And, of course, the annual party at the Kentucky Theatre reconvenes at midnight tonight and Saturday for 1975s The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
More Halloween fun:
'Phantom of the Opera' ballet
'Thriller' in Downtown Lexington
Slide show from 'Thriller' Downtown
Beaux Arts Fall Ball
Day of the Dead is Sunday
Download a Miley mask for Halloween
Phantom ballet blends styles, stories
By Robert Parks Johnson Contributing Writer
Like the story of The Phantom of the Opera, there is a mystery behind Kentucky Ballet Theatre. How do artists from Cuba find themselves dancing in Lexington in a production based on a French novel? Allen Rivas, one of two dancers in the title role, smiles at the question. "The world," he says, "it's just not that big."
'Cause this is in honor of Michael
By Marissa Elko Special to the Herald-Leader
Lexington's finest zombies will parade through downtown Friday night, re-enacting Michael Jackson's iconic 1982 Thriller video. Although it carries on a Halloween tradition started in 2002, this will be the first time that the parade has been staged since Jackson's death in June. (There was a special event July 3 as a salute to Jackson after his death, but there was no parade.)
An original musical makes its way to Broadway
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA AP Drama Writer
First, it's about the story, says Sue Frost. "I have to be engaged," she says, explaining why she is one of a platoon of producers who have brought something a little more risky than usual to Broadway this season. Their project? "Memphis," an original musical, one not based on a movie, play, television series or cartoon. And there are no stars in the leading roles of an interracial couple caught up in the changing music scene of the early 1950s.
Studio Players seeks plays and directors
Herald-Leader staff report
Studio Players is soliciting play proposals from potential directors for its 2010-11 season. For several years, the theater in the Carriage House on Bell Court has programmed seasons by selecting plays from director proposals.
Review: 'Hello, Dolly!' Hello, fun!
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
If you can walk out of Hello, Dolly! saying, "That was fun," then mission accomplished.
Lexington Ballet puts 'The Köln Concert' in motion
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Knowing ballet wouldn't help you too much in figuring out the Lexington Ballet's new show, The Köln Concert.
Your fright makes their night
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
For some participants in Central Kentucky haunted houses and similar attractions, you could sum up the best way to scare people in one word: Boo!
Studio Players seeks scripts for next season
Studio Players is soliciting play proposals from potential directors for its 2010-11 season.
Elmo performer really gets inside her character
By Mary Meehan mmeehan1@herald-leader.com
When she's in character, Jessica Miller is so determined to project the true, giggly essence of Elmo that even when hidden behind a big furry suit, she smiles when someone takes a picture.
Actors Guild managing director resigns
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
The managing director of Actors Guild of Lexington, Kimberly Shaw, is leaving the theater to become the stage manager of a production that will tour Europe through 2010. Her departure leaves the embattled troupe with its top two management posts vacant and only one full-time employee remaining.
Respected actor Jack Parrish dies of pancreatic cancer at age 56
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Jack Parrish, an actor and director from Richmond, Va., who spent the last few years of his life enriching the Central Kentucky theater scene, died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56.
