What's Up, Michael Shannon? The Mistakes Were Made Star Talks Onstage Producing and Boardwalk Empire

After wrapping the first season of HBO's Prohibition-era hit Boardwalk Empire, Michael Shannon is back at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre for the second time this year (he stepped in as Our Town's Stage Manager this spring) in Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made. Shannon stars as beleaguered theater producer Felix Artifex, who believes he's found a bonafide hit play about the French Revolution. Mistakes finds Shannon onstage alone for the majority of the show's 90 minutes (which occurs in real time) as Artifex's dreams crumble thanks to the demands of an A-list movie star, an angry agent, a fickle theater owner and foreign terrorists. Broadway.com talked to Shannon, who received an Oscar nomination in 2009 for Revolutionary Road, about his inspiration for Felix, going prematurely gray and the fate of his Boardwalk character, uptight federal agent Nelson Van Alden.

In Mistakes Were Made, you speak on the phone with dozens of unseen characters, but the audience only hears your words. Do you make up what’s happening on the other end of the line?
It’s subject to change from time to time, but [playwright Craig Wright, director Dexter Bullard] and I figured ...

Source: http://www.broadway.com/shows/mistakes-were-made/buzz/154735/whats-up-michael-shannon-the-mistakes-were-made-star-talks-onstage-producing-and-boardwalk-empire/

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