Reed Birney was beginning to smolder. Every time the actor came on stage as O'Brien, the chief torturer in "1984" at the Hudson Theatre, a group of theatergoers giggled. "The laughter was inappropriate. I was trying not to take it personally, but it was getting on my nerves," Birney said of the Oct. 6 incident....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:29PM on November 4, 2017