John Lithgow, NY Times

June 18, 2014

This is not going to be easy.

I’ve finished my first day of rehearsal, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for a Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear.” It included a meet and greet with 100 New York Shakespeare Festival staffers, a presentation of John Lee Beatty’s set and Susan Hilferty’s costume design, a full bore read-through of the text, and a close study of the first scene of the play. I’m home now and completely exhausted. But fatigue bothers me not at all, not when the work is this exciting and when I so admire everyone I’m working with. I could list the actors in the marvelous cast but won’t bother- their names will come up in the coming entries. […continued]

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