Orson’s Shadow

It?s 1960, and renowned theater critic Kenneth Tynan tracks down the reclusive Orson Wells in London, convincing him to direct Laurence Olivier and Olivier?s new love, Joan Plowright, in a revival of Ionesco?s Rhinoceros. Orson?s Shadow, by Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Austin Pendleton, brings that production, and its now-legendary rehearsal process, to splendidly impossible life. Rosalind Ayres directs Glenne Headly (as Olivier?s wife, Vivian Leigh) and Simon Templeman (Olivier).