“You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me,” he said, referring to his screen acting career.
“I’m grateful for the other things that have come into my life,” he added.
I managed to see Paul Newman live in one of his last stage performances as the stage manager in Our Town at the Westport Community Playhouse and seeing one of our nation’s great actors close up in such a small venue in one of American Theater’s standards was nothing less than a tremendous treat.
Jeffrey DeMunn, Jayne Atkinson and Frank Converse have been confirmed for the cast of the Westport Country Playhouse revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. They join the already-announced Paul Newman and Jane Curtin. James Naughton will direct the starry group.
The production will run June 5-22.
Curtin will play one of the four parents of the story’s central teenage sweethearts. Beyond "Saturday Night Live," Curtin is known for the sitcoms “Kate & Allie” and “Third Rock from the Sun” and an occasional stage turn in plays such as Love Letters.
It’s too bad Newman has decided to stop acting but understandable - he’s leaving big footprints behind for today’s actors to follow in though.
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