Age on Stage
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At age 81, Alvin Epstein is an actor from whom one can reliably expect great things. Case in point: his performance earlier this summer in the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of “King Lear” at La MaMa. What Mr. Epstein brought to the stage was a sensibility — culled from a 60-year career in the theater — that gave him freedom to create what was essentially a new King Lear. It was truly avant-garde Shakespeare, and it was true to Shakespeare.
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