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Sam Waterston stars in 'Lear' at Public by Joe Dziemianowicz

For 16 years as a brilliant and ruthless litigator on "Law & Order," Sam Waterston ranted in the interest of justice. Now, on stage at the Public Theater, he's the aged mad monarch in "King Lear," and he's raging about injustice " his own, at the hands of thankless daughters. Waterston, a film, TV and stage actor who turns 71 next week, has played both Hamlet and Polonius and other Shakespeare roles. He knows h…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:46PM on November 8, 2011

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