In His Comfort Zone

NYTimes.com: SEEING Ethan Hawke perched on a folding chair in a grungy Midtown rehearsal space leading actors through a reading is a bit of a shock. Not that he is there: Mr. Hawke is a steady presence in the New York theater scene, and he is rehearsing “Clive,” a play about a ’90s-era New York rocker gone very, very bad, in which he stars and directs.