For nine years, this actor has taken his one-man show on the road like a “time-warp vaudevillian.” What did he learn along the way?
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SOURCE: Vulture at 12:00PMActors develop rituals for each show, and out of such rituals friendships are born. Opening night celebrates those friendships just as much as it celebrates the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMAs opening night nears, the director Dan Sullivan gives his last notes and John Lithgow feels a far stronger sense of an ending than a beginning.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:55PMAfter a torrential rain, the performance resumed with a vivid feeling of dislocation and desolation, of a world teetering toward madness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PMJohn Lithgow recounts how it feels to perform in the first preview of “Lear.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:53PMJohn Lithgow gets a visit by an old friend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PMDuring rehearsals for “King Lear,” John Lithgow gets a poignant reminder of his long past with Shakespeare’s plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMJohn Lithgow checks out the set and lighting at the Delacorte Theater, where he will soon step onstage in the title role of “King Lear.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:37PMJohn Lithgow asks for help when back pain intrudes on the rehearsals for “King Lear.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:41AMJohn Lithgow, preparing for “King Lear,” takes his fellow actors out to lunch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:38AMJohn Lithgow and a fellow actor find their attention divided between the World Cup and the stage business at hand.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMWith a photographer on the scene, John Lithgow finds rehearsal opposite Annette Bening to be more charged than he expected.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PMJohn Lithgow on how he’s learned to modulate his energy in rehearsing “King Lear,” after sitcom experience “conducted at a pace far over the speed limit.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25PMJohn Lithgow, a Tony-winning actor and writer, is writing about his rehearsals for the Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMA report on the long days — and the long beard — that go along with “King Lear.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00PMThe three-stage complex of the National Theater in London allows for one particularly meaningful tradition, described by an American visitor and participant, John Lithgow.
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