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LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: The Nance Starring Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane stars as Chauncey Miles in LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER "The Nance."
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Nathan Lane stars as Chauncey Miles in LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER "The Nance."

Airs Friday, October 10, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Lewis J. Stadlen, Cady Huffman, Nathan Lane and Jonny Orsini in a scene from Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “The Nance” by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jack O’brien at the Lyceum Theater.
Courtesy of Joan Marcus
Lewis J. Stadlen, Cady Huffman, Nathan Lane and Jonny Orsini in a scene from Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “The Nance” by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jack O’brien at the Lyceum Theater.
Nathan Lane and Jonny Orsini in a scene from Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “The Nance” by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jack O’brien at the Lyceum Theater.
Courtesy of Joan Marcus
Nathan Lane and Jonny Orsini in a scene from Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “The Nance” by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jack O’brien at the Lyceum Theater.

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Douglas Carter Beane’s acclaimed Tony Award-nominated play "The Nance," produced by Lincoln Center Theater, stars stage and screen actor Nathan Lane. The play tells the story of Chauncey Miles (Lane), a headline nance (a parody of a gay man) in the twilight of New York burlesque’s era, who is homosexual.

Integrating burlesque sketches into his drama, Beane paints the portrait of a homosexual man, living and working in the secretive and dangerous gay world of 1930s New York, whose outrageous antics on the burlesque stage stand in marked contrast to his offstage life.

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"Nathan Lane gives the performance of a lifetime as a burlesque performer who plays gay men for laughs - at least on stage. Nominated for three Tony Awards