“I don’t go to novels to be safe,” Marlon James said. “I go to novels to be titillated, to be scared, to be educated, to be frightened — honestly, to be appalled.”
A video projection of “Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict,” by Yayoi Kusama, in 2024. In her later years, Kusama was one of the most popular living artists in the world.
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”