At home in Bed-Stuy with ‘Tamburlaine’ star John Douglas Thompson
Keep your eyes peeled, Brooklynites.
There in the bike lane, you may spot the man The New York Times called “one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation” as he heads to work from his Bedford-Stuyvesant home.
That’s John Douglas Thompson on his way to Theatre for a New Audience, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, where he plays the title role in Christopher Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II.”