Editor's note.(life as a working actor)(Editorial)

American Theatre, February, 2005 by O; '; Quinn, Jim

Surveys indicate that, at different times, actors and students of acting have comprised up to 40 percent of American Theatre's readership. So the subject of how to fashion a coherent, productive, creative life as a working actor is one we return to again and again, in various ways. On the heels of "Advice to a Young Actor," last month's rich collection of essays and interviews exploring the complexities and challenges of entering the profession, this issue offers feature coverage of two exemplary stage performers who are working at the height of their powers.

Neither Elizabeth Marvel (whose audacious reinvention of the iconic heroines Blanche DuBois and Hedda Gabler has earned her a coterie of emphatic admirers) nor Ruben Santiago-Hudson (whose solo...

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