Tales from Beyond the Pale

was in the final cast of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. He has appeared in a lot of Shakespeare, the two “horror” musicals (Little Shop and Rocky), Chekhov, Aeschylus, Tony Kushner, Sam Shepard, Richard Foreman, Arthur Miller, and John Guare. He’s been an on-camera host on Sundance Channel, and has played leading and supporting roles in many feature films and has been a disembodied voice in such classics as Miller’s Crossing, The Age of Innocence, and Malcolm X.