Alan Alda
3) QED: a play
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"The late physicist Richard Feynman is the subject of Peter Parnell's nearly one-man show, QED, a recent Broadway triumph for Alan Alda in the role of Feynman. Set in Feynman's office on the weekend in which he discovers he has terminal cancer, this play is a tour-de-force that captures his unique and puckish genius. As we read about his work on the Manhattan Project, his reconstruction of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and his Nobel prize-winning...