"I'd be in the airport and I'd be stopped: 'Didn't you used to be Mike Hammer?' " Stacy Keach recalls good-humoredly. "And then it was, 'Didn't you used to be the warden in 'Prison Break'? And then it was 'Didn't you used to be Stacy Keach?' "Rest assured. Stacy Keach is still Stacy Keach—affable, articulate, and thoughtful. Though perhaps best known as the cool and canny detective Mike Hammer or the paternal warden Henry Pope, the veteran actor has never stopped acting. Indeed, he is currently appearing in Jon Robin Baitz's new play, "Other Desert Cities," at Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse through Feb. 7. He plays staunchly conservative and emotionally torn husband-father Lyman Wyeth, who heads a well-heeled Palm Springs family crippled by lies and secrets. (The cast features Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Elizabeth Marvel, and Thomas Sadowksi.) Thematic motifs include compassion vs.
- 1/14/2011
- backstage.com
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