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Review: LCT's fun 'Pig' explores value of play
By Candace Chaney Contributing Theater Critic
There's something about Laura Numeroff's children's books that lend themselves well for the stage. Perhaps it is the deceptive simplicity: a human befriends an animal, great fun ensues, and lessons are learned.
Offbeat theater: domestic and imported
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
BCTC's Theatre Program opens Jane Martin's Middle-aged White Guys Thursday and Balagula Theatre presents Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano starting Sunday.
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.
