Among them, on Broadway he produced "Tru," a one-actor play about Truman Capote starring Robert Morse, and the musicals "Sweet Smell of Success" (2002), based on the Hollywood film about a press agent and a powerful columnist, and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (2005), adapted from a movie with Steve Martin.
Thus began a peculiar relationship between playwright and subject that has resulted in the provocatively titled "I Am My Own Wife," a one-actor play that opened yesterday at Playwrights Horizons, with Jefferson Mays delivering an extraordinary performance.
This is the tentpole event of "Golda's Balcony," the Broadway season's first new play, a one-actor show with Tovah Feldshuh that opened last night at the Helen Hayes Theater.
To the list of fervently well-meaning but underachieving theatrical ventures add "The Diary of Adolf Eichmann," a one-actor show starring Ron Paolillo being presented by the Jewish Theater of New York at the 45th Street Theater.
Mr. King wrote several other plays that appeared Off Broadway or in regional or college theaters, including "The Night Hank Williams Died," set in a Texas bar in 1952, and "The Kingfish," written with Ben Z. Grant, a one-actor play about Huey P. Long.
Beaty opens Saturday at the Mark Taper Forum in "The Tallest Tree in the Forest," a one-actor show (plus three musicians) that he wrote for himself to inhabit not just Robeson, but some 40 other characters.
David is in the last two weekends of his run at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in Ebony Repertory Theatre's production of "Paul Robeson," a one-actor play (plus a pianist) from 1977 in which the late Phillip Hayes Dean's script gives almost all the lines to Robeson himself.
And though an "offer" of a role on a TV show usually means a commitment, one actor friend reports having received "offers" that are just invitations to audition.
I can't get financing for my film until I have a tier one actor.
Opportunism in an organization (Williamson 1985) is a typical example of parasitism, in which one actor has an antagonistic effect on a partner.
He has also been known to give a line to one actor without telling the others.
