Alec Wilkinson: Can John Douglas Thompson act in Shakespeare’s comedies?
John Douglas Thompson, who is forty-eight and regarded by some people as the best classical actor in America, has been acting for twenty years, following an epiphany he had as a travelling salesman of computers, A.T.M.s, and check-sorting machines. Thompson is known for Othello and Macbeth and for . . . (Subscription required.)