“When I first read THE ROYALE,” Rachel Chavkin told me the other day, “I had an experience I rarely have: I didn’t move during the entire time it took me to read it. I immediately wanted to direct it.”
The late Jessica Tandy – the original Blanche in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and an Oscar winner for DRIVING MISS DAISY – explained to me years ago in an interview the difference between acting in rehearsal and acting for a paying audience.
One night this week – when the temperatures edged back into the forties and the blizzard was almost a memory – three cast members from THE ROYALE gathered at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem.
