Glenn Close’s cheeks are bruised, her eyes half-closed; a clear oxygen tube snakes out of her nostrils under a mop of disheveled gray hair. The lamp on her night stand casts a long shadow across her face as she lies in bed at her home in Montana, too weak to move. In August, the Tony Award-winning actress served as her own wig master, makeup artist and camera operator (with the help of her niece Seonaid Campbell, a filmmaker) as she transformed into Roy Cohn, the closeted gay lawyer, to shoot a scene from “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.”A starry cast that also includes Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson and Jeremy O. Harris will present a free hourlong virtual benefit performance of seven scenes from “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s two-part 1993 play about the AIDS epidemic, on Oct. 8. The show, which can be streamed live at 8:30 p.m. on the Broadway.com YouTube channel, will be a benefit for the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Fund to Fight Covid-19.

Source: New York Times September 25, 2020 13:30 UTC