Cynthia Nixon on Bringing Wit to Broadway, Shaved Head and All
A Tony-winning actress, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play: That’s the magical combination headed to Broadway as Cynthia Nixon headlines the Main Stem debut of Margaret Edson’s 1998 drama Wit. Nixon will play Vivian Bearing, a prickly poetry professor who is diagnosed with stage four cancer, in Manhattan Theatre Club’s production, which is scheduled to begin performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre…