Bugs, rain and magic _ Shakespeare in the Park

NEW YORK (AP) — Liev Schreiber will never forget the beautiful white bird that showed up mysteriously during a performance of “Othello.”

It was the summer of 1991 and he was in the seats of the outdoor Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, watching Raul Julia in the title role. He remembers seeing an egret or a crane appear a few minutes after Desdemona’s death scene, its long wings flapping slowly into the dusk.