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Cynthia Nixon hadn\u2019t been onstage since 2017, when she and Laura Linney<\/a> alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie in \u201cThe Little Foxes.\u201d<\/p>\n She wasn\u2019t expecting her comeback to be \u201cThe Seven Year Disappear<\/a>,\u201d playing an artist who also re-emerges after seven years.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was really startling to me and a weird, uncanny echo of the play,\u201d Nixon said. The Jordan Seavey production runs through March 31 at the New Group, and four performances, from March 29 to 31, will be live-streamed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nixon is a two-time Tony Award winner, including one for \u201cThe Little Foxes,\u201d but she is widely known for her work in television, including as Miranda Hobbes in \u201cSex and the City\u201d and in \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026\u201d and as Ada Brook in \u201cThe Gilded Age.\u201d This summer, she plans to begin shooting the third seasons of those latter two series, volleying from one to the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI can see in some ways it being fun,\u201d she said. After all, she\u2019s pulled off something like it before.<\/p>\n \u201cI did this thing when I was 18 where I was in two Broadway plays at the same time,\u201d said Nixon, who ran back and forth between \u201cThe Real Thing\u201d and \u201cHurlyburly,\u201d both directed by Mike Nichols, and even made the curtain calls.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can paint multitudes,\u201d she said in a video interview before talking about \u201cBright Lights,\u201d her \u201cSeven Year Disappear\u201d co-star Taylor Trensch and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n I\u2019m in the kitchen most of the time I\u2019m at home. I am always cooking and washing dishes and doing a million things, so it\u2019s great to have a place to wipe my hands. But on a much more physiological level, I\u2019m a very loose-jointed person, so it\u2019s always good for me to have support so I feel ready to work.<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n I love flowers like lilies, hyacinths and gardenias, those really, really pungent, sweet ones. I love to light candles and have those good smells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 3<\/p>\n I have a particular blend that\u2019s my house blend, which is a jasmine green as the base. And then I have this thing from Empire Coffee & Tea, which is all this dried peach and passion fruit. And then lemongrass, which I also grow and have drying all around my house.<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Every single moment of the documentary<\/a> is so delicious and shocking and surprising. I loved Carrie Fisher. I loved Debbie Reynolds. Just to watch that mother and daughter and everything they\u2019ve been to American cinema, and everything they are to each other, and how they can be both so on as performers in front of the camera, but can also be so naked and revealing.<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n When I was in seventh grade, it was the year that the King Tut exhibit was coming to New York, and there was such a run on tickets that you basically had to spend a night there to get a ticket for months later. So my friend Charlotte and I waited on line. There was some hippie guy next to us, and he taught us to play backgammon, and we played all night until the doors opened.<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Whatever terrible things are happening in the world, to be able to take an hour and laugh<\/a>, try and answer the questions and be so charmed \u2014 it\u2019s a little vacation for my psyche.<\/p>\n 7<\/p>\n When my wife and I first got together, she was so open and game, and she just went into musical comedy boot camp. Every time we were in the car, it was like, \u201cAnd now you\u2019re going to hear \u2018Merrily We Roll Along.\u2019 Let me explain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 8<\/p>\n I was a child actor and he was a child actor, and I feel like that\u2019s a very particular thing that you either lived through or you didn\u2019t. I feel such a kinship with him. He was the person that, as soon as I read the play, I wanted to do it with.<\/p>\n 9<\/p>\n Any salad you\u2019re going to have is always going to be enhanced by blue cheese in it. Any piece of apple you\u2019re going to have, wouldn\u2019t it be better with a smear of blue cheese on it? A steak with a little blue cheese?<\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n I got to play Emily Dickinson a few years ago in a movie, and it was like a dream come true. My mother had a record of Julie Harris reading Emily Dickinson poems and letters, and her voice is so great. They live inside my head. Poetry is wonderful to read silently, but poetry is so much better when you say it out loud. I love \u201cI heard a Fly buzz \u2014 when I died.\u201d<\/a> That one gets me every time. I want that read at my funeral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWearing an Apron<\/span><\/h3>\n
Lilies<\/span><\/h3>\n
Home-Brewed Tea<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u2018Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds\u2019<\/span><\/h3>\n
Backgammon<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u2018Wait, Wait \u2026 Don\u2019t Tell Me!\u2019<\/span><\/h3>\n
Musical Comedy<\/span><\/h3>\n
Taylor Trensch<\/span><\/h3>\n
Blue Cheese<\/span><\/h3>\n
Emily Dickinson<\/span><\/h3>\n