Stage Accents Trouble American and British Actors

NYTimes.com: "It’s only when you come to this city and hear British actors playing Americans that you realize how funny we all talk. I’m kidding, of course, but after listening to the peculiar nasality of some accents in the Old Vic revival of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation,” I found myself wondering whether the twang-free voice I’d always assumed I’d been using sounded so very peculiar to the British. I’ve been working on something grander-sounding and mid-Atlantic ever since."