LITTLE ROCK — Jesse Tyler Ferguson is heading from modern toclassic - the Modern Family star is going to headline this summer in William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors in Central Park. The Public Theater announced Tuesday that Ferguson will play Dromio opposite Hamish Linklater’s Antipholus for five weeks at the Delacorte Theatre starting May 28. Daniel Sullivan will direct. Ferguson is no stranger to playing Shakespeare in the park, having starred in A Winter’s Tale there in 2010 and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2007. He and Linklater will play two sets of identical brothers, all equally clueless that their twins are in town and causing confusion. Linklater, who played opposite both Julia Louis Dreyfus on The New Adventures of Old Christine and Alan Rickman on Broadway in Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, was also in that production of A Winter’s Tale. He also appeared in The Merchant of Venice in the parkin 2010 with Al Pacino and is currently in the series The Newsroom. He said he can’t wait to return to the Delacorte Theatre. “I love it there. I want to act in a big outdoor space where people pay by lining up - they pay with their time instead of their money,” Linklater said recently during an interview to discuss his play The Vandal, a moody meditation on death currently playing at The Flea Theater. “It’s just the best audience. It’s the closest you’re ever going to get to whatever Shakespeare must have had.” The second show in the Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park series will be a new musical adaptation of Love’s Labor’s Lost, directed and adapted by Alex Timbers with songs by Michael Friedman, a founding associate artist of The Civilians. That begins July 23 and runs through Aug. 18. No casting was revealed.

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are expecting their second child. Cruz publicist Javier Giner said Tuesday that the Spanish actress is pregnant. He declined to provide any further details, including when the baby is due. The 38-year-old Cruz and 43-yearold Bardem had their first child, a boy called Leo, in January 2011. The couple became romantically involved after appearing together in Woody Allen’s 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona and later married.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 02/13/2013