John Lithgow Takes on the Role of the New Kid in School for a Pbs Special Celebrating Arts Education

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John Lithgow is a two-time Academy Award nominee, multiple Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globes winner, and has appeared in everything from The Old Man to Killers of the Flower Moon.

But the 78-year-old recently went back to school for a new PBS show, Art Happens Here, in which he taught dance, ceramics, silk-screen printing, and vocal jazz to high school students in the Los Angeles area.

"I mean, you've got to think about the children, especially after the children have endured two years of a pandemic," Lithgow tells the AP.

"Two years of pandemic has been hard on all of this, all of us, but they've been catastrophic for kids.

Kids are not used to going to school.

They lost two years, and two years in the life of a child is an eternity."

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