NEW YORK (AP) — Liev Schreiber was in a reflective mood one recent Sunday when he got a call about possibly starring in the play “Doubt” on Broadway.“I had just come out of Mass with my in-laws, which is odd for a Jewish boy from the Lower East Side,” the actor and new dad says with a laugh.
He was in Montauk, on the tip of Long Island, where Schreiber has been moved by watching townspeople gather weekly for Catholic services at the local church.
“Maybe it’s my age or maybe it’s having another kid, but I’ve been thinking a lot about faith and its place in our society and culture,” says the 56-year-old Tony Award winner.
He has found the perfect place to chew on those ideas and more in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that lands on Broadway during Lent. It opens March 7.
The play is set in 1964 in New York City, and Schreiber plays the charming, charismatic and jovial Father Flynn, a new middle school teacher and basketball coach. His foil is the vinegary, steely-spined principal, Sister Aloysius, who forbids the kids to sing “Frosty the Snowman” and is suspicious of ballpoint pens.
The two figures butt heads over a hazy allegation that he may have sexually abused a 12-year-old male student, which he denies. The audience goes back and forth between the two, weighing the evid …
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He was in Montauk, on the tip of Long Island, where Schreiber has been moved by watching townspeople gather weekly for Catholic services at the local church.
“Maybe it’s my age or maybe it’s having another kid, but I’ve been thinking a lot about faith and its place in our society and culture,” says the 56-year-old Tony Award winner.
He has found the perfect place to chew on those ideas and more in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that lands on Broadway during Lent. It opens March 7.
The play is set in 1964 in New York City, and Schreiber plays the charming, charismatic and jovial Father Flynn, a new middle school teacher and basketball coach. His foil is the vinegary, steely-spined principal, Sister Aloysius, who forbids the kids to sing “Frosty the Snowman” and is suspicious of ballpoint pens.
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