A Couple Of Knights (And Matinees) On Broadway
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have known each other for years — they were both actors at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the '60s and '70s, and both achieved broader fame through movies and television. Both were knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for their work onstage and off. And then, of course, they were cast as mortal enemies in the first X-Men film 14 years ago, and have come back to the roles of Magneto and Professor X several times since.
"We became good friends as a result of shooting multimillion-dollar adventure movies," Stewart says.
Such good friends, in fact, that McKellen officiated at Stewart's wedding this past September. Now they're on Broadway in repertory productions of two 20th-century masterpieces: Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land.
A Chock-Full Fall
NPR's Trey Graham did a five-show, three-day weekend in New York. He talks to Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon about what's shaping up to be a heck of a season so far.