The Tiny conference room with the plastic chairs hardly seems worthy of the two sirs who walk in the door: Sir Patrick Stewart, almost dashing in a black leather jacket over a plaid flannel shirt, and Sir Ian McKellen, looking more like a rumpled English professor with his orange sweater, flowing gray locks and stubble of beard. Trailing them, it seems, is virtually the entire canon of Western dramatic literature: the great Shakespearean roles--Lear and Macbeth, the Richards and Henrys--and the classics of Ibsen and Chekhov. They crossed paths at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s and first acted together...
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