Getting 'On the Line' on the stage BY ROBERT KAHN

Actor-playwright Joe Roland, 37, was a room-service waiter at the Drake Hotel in 1995 when 100 workers walked off the job as the threat of a citywide strike loomed. More than a decade later, with help from powerhouse director Mike Nichols, Roland's play inspired by the plight of working people like them is about to open Off-Broadway.

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