Forty-five years after he directed a Chekhov workshop production in the newly constructed Mitzi Newhouse Theatre (then called the Forum), Stacy Keach is back in Lincoln Center’s underground space starring as patriarch Lyman Wyeth in Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities. Although Keach is a living legend of the classical stage—from Hamlet in Central Park to King Lear at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre—the 69-year-old actor is just as comfortable playing a father from hell in the sitcom Titus, a warden in Prison Break and the patriarch of a boxing family in the new FX series Lights Out. Keach reminisced about his five-decade career in a recent chat with Broadway.com.
It’s been almost 20 years since you were on stage in New York. Welcome back!
It’s like coming home, particularly at Lincoln Center. I opened the Vivian Beaumont Theater 45 years ago with Danton’s Death, followed by The Country Wife, The Condemned of Altona and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. No show was scheduled in the Newhouse that first season, but I directed Daniel Sullivan, who was an actor then, in Chekhov’s Marriage Proposal in the very space where we are currently ...
Monday, January 17, 2011
What's Up, Stacy Keach? The Other Desert Cities Star on Highlights of His 50-Year Career
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