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'THERE ARE few plays where you get to play true goodness, to find a way where it's not cloying or sentimental or naive, or actually, boring. In theatrical terms, it's always better to play villains," said Frank Langella to reporter Harry Haun. Well, what an experience to go to the theater in the middle of the US financial meltdown and a pre-election in which people are calling names, telling lies and slandering one another. At the American Airlines Theatre, we encounter a true moral moment even if only onstage. I do mean the revival of Robert Bolt's morally challenging Tony-winning play of 1962, "A Man for All Seasons," which involves that perennial historical dilemma - could Henry VIII set aside a Catholic queen to marry Anne Boleyn? I had the pleasure of seeing England's great Paul Scofield do this stunning 16th-century... [read full story]
