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Actor said he sometimes thought about ‘the road not travelled’

Screenwriter, musician and director who won an Oscar, with Woody Allen, for the screenplay of Annie Hall

Many years ago I was a theatre critic, and over the years I’ve seen and written about plays of all sorts, from the powerful and provocative to the bland and banal. But I’ve never experienced the strange, eerie, even disturbing emotions that occurred recently when hearing my own name repeated…

5/5 Edward Berger’s account of cardinals battling to be the new Pope is a thrilling succession story, and Ralph Fiennes is simply hypnotic

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 13-19 include singer Usher, actor John Lithgow and "South Park” co-creator Trey Parker

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward

Mark Rosenblatt’s fearless script is one thing, but the play about the author’s vile antisemitism is made extraordinary by the performances, led by John Lithgow

Sophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the author’s life

Salon talks with the veteran actor about the FX thriller that has gifted him with "an extremely unusual story"