![]() ![]() Were you looking for a play when you got Children of a Lesser God? But by the time I started a family in my 20s and 30s, and ER happened, I didn't do any plays after that. I produced a production of Look Back in Anger that Forest Whitaker directed, and it was interracial and we set it in LA, and we got a letter from, I think, Samuel French, saying, "You will never get the rights to our plays ever again." I kept doing plays while I was doing television and film. I ended up working pretty much right away. But I was the youngest of five kids, and my parents weren't going to pay for that, so I paid for half and did two years in the BFA program. ![]() I started working professionally when I was 16, auditioning for commercials and television and films, and I went to USC as a BFA drama major. By the time I got to high school, I had done 25 shows. I was really fortunate because theater was supported in the public schools. I grew up in Santa Barbara, which was a big theater town when I was a kid in the '70s. Tell me about your theatrical background. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Anthony Edwards makes his Broadway debut in Children of a Lesser God at Studio 54. Now that they're grown, he's ready for his second act, and it's starting at Studio 54. (Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff also make their debuts as mismatched lovers James Leeds, a speech pathologist, and Sarah Norman, his deaf pupil.)Įdwards famously walked away from ER after season 8, going into a self-imposed exile to be a full-time parent to his young children. Franklin, an old-fashioned headmaster of a school for the deaf. ![]() Mark Green from NBC's ER, is currently making his maiden voyage on the Great White Way in this Tony-winning 1979 drama, playing Dr. "I heard there was an opening," he says with a laugh, "and I thought, 'Wow, I could play that part.' " Anthony Edwards is up-front and down-to-earth about how he came to star in Kenny Leon's new Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God. ![]()
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