Going legit: Why movie stars need live theater

BY CHRIS JONES Chicago Tribune NEW YORK -- Flushed and sweaty from his exertions, Daniel Radcliffe walked to the front of a Broadway stage and drank in the applause like an "American Idol" act on his first big gig. He grinned sheepishly, sighed with clear relief and closed his eyes, as if to better savor the catharsis of the moment. If the 19-year-old Radcliffe were a conventional young English actor making his Broadway debut, none of this would be surprising. But he's a celebrity known in every corner of the planet as Harry Potter. His adolescence has been lived in a fantastical, public realm. On film, he was protected by a school uniform. On Broadway, Radcliffe is entirely on public view. "Equus," Peter Shaffer's story of a troubled young adolescent sent to a psychiatrist after violently attacking several horses, requires... [read full story]