Renaissance festival man

STERLING - Gary Izzo doesn't want you to know what you're getting at the Sterling Renaissance Festival.

As artistic director of the festival for about 25 years, Izzo has worked with its cast to ensure that the experience is different for every person who enters. Izzo labels this living, breathing reenactment of Elizabethan England as improvisational environmental interactive theater.

“The audience has as much to do with the outcome of a scene as the actors,” Izzo said. “It's very powerful, people get quite moved.”