Careful! He Got Mozart!

http://www.examiner.com/x-11641-Shakespeare-Examiner~y2010m1d26-F-Murray-Abraham-goes-fist-to-fist-with-robber-at-Much-Ado-About-Nothing

When I saw a headline about F. Murray Abraham tussling with a robber in Much Ado About Nothing I assumed it’d be some sort of cute turn of phrase about one of the other actors on stage. 

Nope, turns out it was a real robber that he caught going through purses in the dressing rooms, and apparently they went at it.  Police are looking for “a man with a hole in his face the size of Abraham’s fist.”  (That’s an actual quote from the article).

Turns out, by the way, that the Oscar-winning actor was actually just in the audience watching, he wasn’t even part of the performance!