Andrew Scott at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards at Beach in Santa Monica, California. © Hutchinsphoto | Dreamstime.com.
Is faith a belief in something greater than yourself — God, for instance — or a kind of wishful thinking, a desperate hope that you will live in the hereafter and one day see those you loved and lost?
That’s the question at the heart of “Sea Wall,” a one-man play written by Simon Stephens for Andrew Scott, who performs it with breathtaking intensity at Off-Broadway’s Studio Seaview through Oct. 30.
Read MoreNick Kyrgios at Wimbledon in 2017. The new Citi Open champ — who moves on to the Western and Souther Open, which begins tomorrow — continues to confound.
In his review of the Public Theater production of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus,” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, The New York Times chief drama critic Ben Brantley describes the title antihero — a brilliant Roman general with no people skills — thusly:
“He’s all unedited impulse, and watching him try to control his peacetime temper evokes the irresistibly awful spectacle of a tantrum-prone tennis star losing it on the court. (Ian McKellen has said that his 1984 performance as Coriolanus at the National Theater was partly inspired by John McEnroe.)”
You wonder what Shakespeare might’ve done with Nick Kyrgios, tennis’ reigning bad boy.
Read MoreI am a collector of “Hamlets.”
My first stage experience of Shakespeare’s best play occurred when I was 15 and saw the now-defunct American Shakespeare Festival’s production with Brian Bedford in the title role. It was striped tights, codpieces and an emphasis on Hamlet’s friendship with Horatio. I can still see Bedford, whom I would later interview about the part, being carried off the stage at the end – his head thrown back, his long, dark hair cascading. I loved it, though that may not have been my first “Hamlet” experience. ...
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