Vivian Bearing
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John Donne
In MTCs current production on Broadway, that role is bravely undertaken by firebrand Cynthia Nixon. Not that any other cast member is a slouch; each role is individually carved out and well-performed, but thats ultimately inconsequential.

STAGE PORTRAIT: Cynthia Nixon in Wit
NEW YORK - Another "Sex and the City" star has made her way to Broadway, but she has brought along a different kind of cocktail. Cynthia Nixon has a combination of the drugs Hexamethophosphacil and Vinplatin in her veins as she fights back against ovarian cancer in a tight and powerful Manhattan

Bearing the soul of Wit
There is a lot of talk about English poet John Donne (1572 to 1631) in Wit, Margaret Edsons Pulitzer Prize-winning play now on Broadway. At times, the audience will feel as if they are in college as they watch Vivian Bearing (Cynthia Nixon), 47, a tough, uncompromising professor of English

Stage review: Cynthia Nixon wrestles with life in a moving 'Wit'
Former Sex & The City actress Cynthia Nixon discovered just how controversial it was, when in a January interview with the New York Times Magazine, she placed her own evolution from long-term straight woman to happily engaged gay woman firmly on the ...

BROADWAY REVIEW: Cynthia Nixon powerful in 'Wit'
Actor Cynthia Nixon's recent comment that she considers herself gay by choice has been met with widespread attention and a bit of confusion. Some have speculated about how this way of thinking about sexual orientation could affect the pending legal ...

Can you choose your sexuality?
Actress Cynthia Nixon, from Sex in the City, alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, alluded to the existence of biphobia when she hesitated to share her true sexual identity with the world in January 2012. Biphobia, a very real concept, is one that is being cited ...

Cynthia Nixon's 'Choice' Doesn't Affect LGBT Rights, And Here's Why
The Nixon Rule is named after Cynthia Nixon, who is starring as a literature professor dying of cancer in the Broadway debut of Wit 13 years after it opened Off-Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize. Best-known as Miranda in Sex and the ...

LGBT News: Bisexual people more susceptible to mental anguish
Sickness is never easy to watch, and one in which the only possible outcome is death is all the more difficult. That is the premise of "Wit" at Manhattan Theatre Club Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Though there are great lines and fierce acting by its star, Margaret Edson's 1999 Pulitzer-winning play

Wit Review: Cynthia Nixon Breaks The Nixon Rule
When the scholarly Dr. Vivian Bearing (Cynthia Nixon) learns she has Stage 4 ovarian cancer, she dissects the process in the same manner shes spent a lifetime scrutinizing every word and punctuation of the metaphysical Holy Sonnets of John Donne in her specialty world of academia as a teacher