James Earl Jones
Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
Jane Alexander
Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Gary Sinise
Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Amy Morton
Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Tim Sampson
Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Maggie Smith
Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
Margaret Tyzack
Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
John Lithgow
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
BD Wong
Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")
Sam Waterston
John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Robert Prosky
Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
Annette Bening
Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Tim Daly
Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Madeline Kahn
Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Robert Klein
Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Art Carney
Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")
Joan Allen
Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Peter Friedman
Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Linda Lavin
Marjorie (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Michele Lee
Lee (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Tony Roberts
Ira (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Joe Mantegna
Bobby Gould (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
Ron Silver
Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
Philip Bosco
Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
Victor Garber
Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
Charles S. Dutton
Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Rocky Carroll
Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Carl Gordon
Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson")
S. Epatha Merkerson
Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Brian Stokes Mitchell
King (segment "King Hedley II")
Viola Davis
Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
Delroy Lindo
Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Ed Hall
Bynum Walker (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Mel Winkler
Seth Holly (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Kevin Kline
Hamlet (segment "Hamlet")
Len Cariou
James Tyrone (segment "Long Day's Journey Into Night")
Morgan Freeman
Jaques (segment "As You Like It")
