From Jan: Samuel D. Hunter knew that he was going to alienate some people by making a 600-pound man the central character in his new play The Whale. As he told the online theater magazine TDF Stages, "I wanted to set it up where the audience was keeping this character at arm's length at first, and then gradually shrink that distance." The problem is that the distance never shrank for me. I just coul…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:34AM on November 7, 2012