Mark Linn-Baker On Bringing Molière’s ‘The Imaginary Invalid’ to Life

The neurotic Larry Appleton of TV’s Perfect Strangers, starring Off-Broadway in a 400-year-old Molière farce? Can it be? Not only can it—it is, and the gifted Mark Linn-Baker says it’s his idea. “I had worked with Red Bull Theater in 2015 doing The School for Scandal, and I had a great time with them,” he told Observer, “so Jesse Berger, its artistic director, and I started talking about doing something else together. We settled on The Imaginary Invalid. Jeffrey Hatcher, who did zippy, witty condensations...