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Onstage or onscreen, John Lithgow keeps busy

Few actors manage to remain as consistently busy as John Lithgow does, whether onstage or onscreen.

Lithgow, 67, who can currently be seen in Judd Apatow’s “This Is 40,’’ is performing at the Olivier Theatre in London in the National Theatre production of Arthur Wing Pinero’s Victorian-era farce, “The Magistrate.’’

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I saw Lithgow (and Tom Atkins) in The Changing Room at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven around 1972. Director Arvin Brown's years in New Haven were wonderful, particularly his productions of David Storey plays.