Actor Jim Parsons finds stardom in L.A. and community on Broadway
JIM PARSONS CAN’T CATCH A BREAK. HE SPENDS much of the year in Los Angeles, where he will soon start the 12th season of The Big Bang Theory, but considers New York City home. Right now he’s in Gramercy Park, a small urban oasis near his apartment, and though there’s not a cloud in the sky, the relentless buzzing of chain saws and edge mowers in the park is a persistent, nagging distraction. “This is very L.A. right now, the yard work going on,” he says. “Irony.”
More ironic still is that the project for which Parsons is spending the summer in New York—and the reason he’s speaking to me—has been thrown into frantic reorganization. At the curtain call for the Saturday-matinee performance of the newly revived gay classic The Boys in the Band, Parsons stumbled
