Article: Brochtrup at home in `Theater District'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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The Boston Herald
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September 30, 2005
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Byline: ROBERT NESTI

Many actors shy away from being typecast as gay.

Not Bill Brochtrup.

For the past eight seasons the openly gay actor played television's longest-running gay character - desk jockey "Upstairs" John Irvin on "NYPD Blue," in a role that series creators Steven Bochco and David Milch fashioned for him.

Now he's in Boston playing one-half of a gay couple in "Theater District," TV writer Richard Kramer's ("Thirtysomething," "My So-Called Life") play probing the changing nature of the American family. SpeakEasy Stage Companyopens its production at the Boston Center for the Arts today.

Brochtrup followed the play ...

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