John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway by John Lithgow

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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John Lithgow’s 10 Favorite Books by John Lithgow

Bookseller One Grand Books has asked literary celebrities to name the ten titles they'd take to a desert island, and they've shared the results with Vulture. Below is The …

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ArtsBeat: 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night by John Lithgow

Actors 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.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest by John Lithgow

As 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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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub by John Lithgow

Those crowd sounds you hear but can't quite make out? Hub-bub. Here's how it evolved in this production of "Lear."

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': A Pitiless Storm, Then the Show Goes On by John Lithgow

After a torrential rain, the performance resumed with a vivid feeling of dislocation and desolation, of a world teetering toward madness.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Perform, Rehearse, Stagger Home by John Lithgow

John Lithgow recounts how it feels to perform in the first preview of "Lear."

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': We Really Are Putting on a Play by John Lithgow

John Lithgow gets a visit by an old friend.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Cue Memories by John Lithgow

During rehearsals for "King Lear," John Lithgow gets a poignant reminder of his long past with Shakespeare's plays.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': A Real Run-Through, and a Sneak Peek by John Lithgow

John Lithgow checks out the set and lighting at the Delacorte Theater, where he will soon step onstage in the title role of "King Lear."

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain by John Lithgow

John Lithgow asks for help when back pain intrudes on the rehearsals for "King Lear."

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': A King's Gotta Eat by John Lithgow

John Lithgow, preparing for "King Lear," takes his fellow actors out to lunch.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Torn Between Soccer and Shakespeare by John Lithgow

John Lithgow and a fellow actor find their attention divided between the World Cup and the stage business at hand.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Playing to the Camera by John Lithgow

With a photographer on the scene, John Lithgow finds rehearsal opposite Annette Bening to be more charged than he expected.

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': When To Hold Back, When to Let Go by John Lithgow

John 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."

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': Put It In the Blog! by John Lithgow

John Lithgow, a Tony-winning actor and writer, is writing about his rehearsals for the Shakespeare in the Park production of "King Lear."

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ArtsBeat: Learning 'Lear': John Lithgow's Shakespeare in the Park Diary by John Lithgow

A report on the long days " and the long beard " that go along with "King Lear."

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John Lithgow's Discovery at Britain's National Theater by John Lithgow

The 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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