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Faizon Love, who has appeared in movies like Friday, Couple's Retreat and Elf, will show off his stand-up skills Saturday in Lexington.

Actor Faizon Love brings his stand-up act to Saturday fund-raiser

The comic actor Faizon Love makes a good living in Hollywood. But Love's presence on screen wouldn't be possible without his first love: stand-up comedy. Love brings his act to Lexington Saturday for the Urban Chocolate Comedy Series.

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Review: 'Think different' is clever message of Steve Jobs play

If you are reading this review on a laptop, iPad, smartphone or pretty much any other electronic device, it is likely that your machine came from a factory in Shenzhen, China, and was assembled by actual humans, humans who work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days before climbing a ladder of cots in a tiny concrete...

13 days ago
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'Steve Jobs,' Actor's Guild's season finale, comes with plenty of back story

Actors Guild of Lexington's artistic director, Eric Seale, thought he had lost his season finale only shortly after he chose it. Instead, Seale was able to incorporate the controversy surrounding The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs into the play itself.

14 days ago
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Review: Children's Theatre ingeniously brings 'Goodnight Moon' to life

Since 1947, millions of parents have read Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon to millions of pajama-clad children. Over and over and over again.

17 days ago
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Union College's one-woman theater department leaves a lasting legacy

For 28 years, Rebecca Ansary Pettys has been a one-woman department at Union College in Barbourville. When she began, she had to revive a theater program that was on the skids. On Saturday, her final class graduated, and she is retiring from a thriving program.

18 days ago
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Ashland's Steve Kazee nominated for Tony Award

Ashland native Steve Kazee, who discovered a love for musical theater while he was a student at Morehead State University, is a Tony Award nominee for best actor in a leading role in a musical for his performance in Once, the stage adaptation of the surprise hit 2006 film.

23 days ago
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Lexington Children's Theatre's adaptation of 'Goodnight Moon' explores the subtext of children's classic bedtime tale

Vivian Snipes and Eric Abele are aware that if Lexington Children's Theatre presented a literal interpretation of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's children's book Goodnight Moon, it would last about five minutes.

25 days ago
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Foursome from 'Jersey Boys' now touring as The Midtown Men

The core quartet from the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash Jersey Boys discovered that they didn't want to break up. So they didn't. Calling themselves The Midtown Men, they went on tour.

28 days ago
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Vicki Lawrence and her Mama feel at home in the South

Mama, as played by Vicki Lawrence on The Carol Burnett Show and the sitcom Mama's Family, is such a Southern icon it's surprising to read Lawrence's biography and see she was born and raised in Inglewood, Calif.

28 days ago
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Transy hires former Actors Theatre official

Transylvania University has hired former Actors Theatre of Louisville literary manager Michael Bigelow Dixon as an assistant professor of theater beginning with this year’s fall semester.

30 days ago
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BCTC's new fine-arts degree will help students get in on the acting

Bluegrass Community and Technical College will launch Kentucky's first associate's degree in fine arts. For now, the degree will be available for students of theater, but programs in other arts disciplines are in development.

32 days ago