From Actor's Lives:
"I got interested in the theatre because my father has been involved as an actor in Philadelphia for as long as I can remember. I went to see him in a lot of plays, and I can remember going backstage after a performance and being amazed that these rickety little sets had supported a whole world that I had been completely emeshed in. That's probably the first time I had a sense that there was something magical about that world."
Landscape of the Body
Paul McCrane & Alvin Epstein in Crossing Niagara
Selected Roles:
The Physicists (1976) (Professional Debut)
Runaways (1977) (Broadway Debut)
Landscape of the Body (1977)
Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name (1980)
Crossing Niagara (1981)
The Iceman Cometh (1985)
Six Degrees of Separation (1989)
The Country Girl (1990)
Three Sisters (1991)
The Iceman Cometh
Reviews:
Newsday January 11, 1991
CLIFFORD ODETS ALWAYS dismissed The Country Girl as a superficial sell-out, written only to make money. And it did, ofcourse, becoming second only to his Golden Boy in stage success and turning into the movie that won Grace Kelly an Oscar.....McCrane, usually seen in weak or weasly roles, wearsleadership well as the young director with his jumble of cynicism and idealism.
Big Names Among Playwrights at 20th Louisville Festival
Robert Hurwitt
EXAMINER THEATER CRITIC
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Tony Kushner, Craig Lucas, David Henry Hwang, John Patrick Shanley - not to mention Jimmy Breslin, a writer not generally associated with the theater - most of the biggest names at this year's Humana Festival of New American Plays are connected to the shortest plays.Hwang's "Trying to Find Chinatown," is a little gem of revelations about race. Concisely directed by Paul McCrane, it explores the extent to which genesdetermine identity with remarkable economy and humor ina confrontation between a punkish Chinese-American (a fiercely focused Zar Acayan), thoroughly steeped in theheritage of jazz violin music, and a white Midwesterner (a guileless Richard Thompson) in search of the ancestral roots of the Chinese father who adopted him...
|
|
|
