(Sandy MacDonald’s article appeared in the Boston Globe, 8/1; via Pam Green.)
Meryl Streep had a very busy week, even for her. She gave a shout-out to Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention; inked a contract to appear in “Mary Poppins Returns” — a movie musical from “Hairspray” creators Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman that will also star Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda — and geared up for the Aug. 12 rollout of the biopic “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
Still, there she was Saturday, alongside her former Yale Drama School classmate John Shea at a benefit for the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. (Surprisingly, it was Streep’s first time on the island.) The handsome Shea, who’s perhaps best known for playing Lex Luthor in the ’90s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” got his start as a TWN apprentice in 1968 and has remained ever grateful.