Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground

JOHN RUBINSTEIN (Dwight D. Eisenhower) created the title role in the Broadway musical Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse, and won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his performance in Children of a Lesser God. Other Broadway appearances include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ragtime, Hurlyburly, M. Butterfly, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Drama Desk nomination), Love Letters, Fools, Getting Away With Murder and the Diane Paulus Pippin revival. Off-Broadway he appeared in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Morning’s at Seven and won the Lucille Lortel Award as Best Actor for Elmer Rice’s Counsellor-at-Law. He originated the leading roles in A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters and in Kander, Ebb and McNally’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, and he played the Wizard in Wicked in Los Angeles for 18 months. Films include Being the Ricardos, Hello I Must Be Going, 21 Grams, Red Dragon, The Boys From Brazil, Someone to Watch Over Me, Daniel, The Car and Getting Straight. On television, he starred in two series, “Family” (Emmy nomination) and “Crazy Like a Fox,” and in over 300 episodes and miniseries. He is a director, a composer of film and television music (Jeremiah Johnson, The Candidate, “Family,” “China Beach”), a university professor (NYU, UCLA, USC) and has recorded over 170 audiobooks, most numerously Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels. He is married to Bonnie Burgess, and their son Max is the youngest of his five children, joining Jessica, Michael, Peter and Jacob.