When a performing actor leaves behind his lines, staging, sets, and lighting, and steps beyond the 'fourth wall', the unexpected happens. For the past four years, Amy Arbus has been creating a series of riveting portraits of celebrated actors both on and off Broadway including Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio, Ed Harris in Wrecks, Alan Cumming in Cabaret, Cherry Jones in Doubt, Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens, and Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton in The Coast of Utopia. Because the photographs in her book, The Fourth Wall, were staged in anonymous public places they explore the question of identity by capturing both the actor and the fictional character with a surprising mixture of spectacle and art, formality and spontaneity, and performance and reality.