In Performance: Shuler Hensley of \'The Whale\'

This week we'll be featuring two videos as part of In Performance, our new theater series in which actors perform excerpts from their new shows.

The first is with Shuler Hensley in a scene from “The Whale,” a new play by Samuel D. Hunter that runs through Saturday at Playwrights Horizons. Mr. Hensley plays Charlie, a homebound, morbidly obese gay man who teaches an online writing course from his small apartment in northern Idaho. In this scene Charlie recites a passage from one of his prized possessions: a book report on “Moby Dick.”

Coming Thursday: Michael Learned performs a scene from Bruce Graham's “Outgoing Tide.” Previous videos include Aasif Mandvi in “Disgraced” and Joaquina Kalukango in “Emotional Creature.”