{"id":8718,"date":"2010-03-30T15:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8718"},"modified":"2010-03-30T15:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T22:01:44","slug":"stewart-lands-role-in-mamet-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/03\/stewart-lands-role-in-mamet-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Lands Role In Mamet Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong> has one of the two roles in <em>A Life in the Theater<\/em>, a <strong>David Mamet<\/strong> play which will open on Broadway this autumn.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Life in the Theater<\/em> is the story of life in the footlights from the point of view of two actors, Robert and John, and their relationship.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stewart02022010.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8719\" title=\"Stewart02022010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stewart02022010.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Robert, played by Stewart, is an older, experienced performer who mentors the younger John. As the play progresses, Robert &#8220;falters as an actor and mentor, and John emerges as a mature actor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>A Life in the Theater<\/em> will be directed by <strong>Neil Pepe<\/strong>, artistic director of the Atlantic Theater Company.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is no stranger to the role of Robert, having played him once before, in 2005 at London&#8217;s Apollo Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Rehearsals for the play will begin August 23 and it will probably open in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Patrick Stewart has one of the two roles in A Life in the Theater,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[3127,3126,2440],"class_list":["post-8718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-a-life-in-the-theater","tag-mamet","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8718\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}