If you are familiar with the still boyishly handsome but extremely serious actor Ethan Hawke, you know that when stage directions state that a character he’s portraying onstage wields a golf club and then is “seen smashing typewriter methodically,” Hawke will absolutely be smashing the shit out of a typewriter, on…

"Places, Old Lady!" the stage manager shouts. "Places, Hippie Pig!"

There are a number of ways you might have been introduced to the artist John Lurie.