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Backstage Pass


March 7, 2013 5:37 p.m. ET

Sarah Paulson, star of the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of "Talley's Folly," doesn't have any backstage rituals before she performs—but she does instruct her wig to stay in place on her head. "You better behave or I'm going to kick your ass," she tells the blond hairpiece, but it doesn't always listen. "Last night she became a medusa—she just grew," says Ms. Paulson, who plays Southern princess Sally Talley in Lanford Wilson's play about a displaced Jewish loner (Danny Burstein) desperate to melt her icy heart. Ms. Paulson, who stars in the FX cult hit "American Horror...

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