We watched “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” the other night and his guest was Ian McKellen. That in and of itself made the show more wonderful than usual. But, what was even more startling was to find out that McKellen had, earlier in his career, performed a part of a play where Shakespeare addresses immigration some 400 years ago. In fact, he performed it from memory right there on the stage of The Ed Sullivan Theater.
Here’s a video of Sir Ian McKellen performing that part of the play. It’s stirring and touching and amazing all at the same time.
