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Richard Thomas

By Michael Persico & Anastasia Kotsosavas
Add Comment Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Nov. 12, 2008

Richard Thomas as Chick in Unusual Acts of Devotion


"I started acting at the age of seven in New York on Broadway. It's my 50th anniversary this year in the business. I did my first movie, Winning, in 1968 with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. They played my parents. I made about eight or nine pictures in the late '60s and early '70s. And then I started with The Waltons. I did that for about five years. Since then I've kept working on stage and in TV. This play is my fourth role in a Terrance McNally play. I've become one of the McNally actors; Nathan Lane is another. I play a lonely man, a failed actor who works as a Gray Line tour guide. It's a beautiful play about the dynamics of relationships and community. As always with Terrance's characters, there's a great deal of humor, which I love, and an enormous amount of humanity. Terrance always demands that his actors go to a very difficult place emotionally. You get to a really raw and vulnerable place and that's always challenging, but it's also very rewarding." >> Through Nov. 23. $10-$59. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. 215.985.0420. www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org

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