In May, The New Yorker profiled actor John Douglas Thompson, in part speaking with him about his growing fascination with the legendary Louis Armstrong. Until recently, Thompson, like most ...

John Douglas Thompson has been extolled by the New York Times as “one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation,†and noted as “the best American actor in Shakespeare ...

Actor John Douglas Thompson, who most recently played the role of Becker in the Broadway production of August Wilson’s “Jitney” will be the guest speaker at the annual Maynard Mack Lecture on Monday, ...

John Douglas Thompson as Prospero and Nora Eschenheimer as Miranda in rehearsal for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's "The Tempest" on Boston Common July 21-Aug. 8. (Courtesy Evgenia Eliseeva) ...

In 1986, John Douglas Thompson had a date that would change his life – but not for the romantic reasons one might assume. Thompson was a computer salesman with a corner apartment at the Taft ...

Thompson, 50, didn't start out to be an actor. He was a successful software marketing rep when he saw the play that would eventually change his life, August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." ...

LENOX — If pioneering African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge (1807-67) hadn’t existed, admirers of John Douglas Thompson’s award-winning stage portrayals might have been tempted ...

Actor John Douglas Thompson’s charismatic portrayals of larger-than-life figures have earned him several awards. Steven G. Smith for The Boston Globe ...

English-American actor John Douglas Thompson is travelling to Scotland for the first time to perform in The Merchant of Venice at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum. He tells Fergus Morgan about how being ...

John Douglas Thompson (born 1964) is an English-American actor. He is a Tony Award nominee and the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards, three Obie Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a ...

Thompson went to the theater alone, and that night in 1986 changed the course of his life. Before Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Thompson had only attended one Broadway play, The Mystery of Edwin ...