The next year, in 2005, he was Dylan Thomas for seven weeks in "Do Not Go Gentle" at the Arclight Theatre in New York City. While there he did a reading of Tennessee Williams's letters at the New York Public Library, and performed in a reading of Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End". In September 2005, he joined in a reading of R. L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" in Washington, D.C., and in October took part in a staged reading of a new play by Austin Pendleton entitled "H6R3", which blends Shakespeare's plays "Henry VI" and "Richard III".