We recently caught up with the star of Lincoln Center Theater's latest Broadway production - Steven Pasquale. He takes the lead as the fictional character Robert Merkin in Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar's latest offering Junk, which continues at the Vivian Beaumont Theater through to January 7, 2018.
It is 1985, the last gasp of the go-go eighties, when corporate raiders roam the landscape, attempting hostile takeovers; companies under siege employ “poison pill” defenses; and the occasional “white knights” prove less than constant. Oliver Stone had already unmasked (or glorified, depending on where you sit) the greed-is-good ethic that has always informed Wall Street. At the Vivian... Read more