{"id":8298,"date":"2022-09-01T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8298"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:52:10","slug":"jim-volz-about-the-artist-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8298","title":{"rendered":"John Douglas Thompson: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here to listen to his interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the late 1990s, he began appearing in a variety of lead and supporting roles across New England, most notably at the\u00a0American Repertory Theater<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Shakespeare and Company<\/a>.\u00a0 Thompson made his Broadway debut as Flavius, opposite Denzel Washington in\u00a0Julius Caesar<\/em>\u00a0in 2005.\u00a0 He appeared as Le Bret in\u00a0Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em>, alongside Jennifer Garner and Kevin Kline in 2007.
In 2009, Thompson performed the title roles in\u00a0Othello<\/em>\u00a0at the\u00a0Theatre for a New Audience,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Emperor Jones<\/em>\u00a0at the\u00a0Irish Repertory Theatre<\/a>. Both performances garnered high critical acclaim, with the New York Times stating: \u201cThere may be no better classical actor working in the New York theater right now.\u201d and \u201cone of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to listen to his interview. In the late 1990s, he began appearing in a variety of lead and supporting roles across New England, most notably at the\u00a0American Repertory Theater\u00a0and\u00a0Shakespeare and Company.\u00a0 Thompson made his Broadway debut as Flavius, opposite Denzel Washington in\u00a0Julius Caesar\u00a0in 2005.\u00a0 He appeared as Le Bret in\u00a0Cyrano de Bergerac, alongside<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8298","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-29Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8298\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}