Harvey Fierstein

Character: Host

James Earl Jones

Character: Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")

Jane Alexander

Character: Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")

Gary Sinise

Character: Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

Amy Morton

Character: Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

Tim Sampson

Character: Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

Maggie Smith

Character: Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")

Margaret Tyzack

Character: Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")

John Lithgow

Character: René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

BD Wong

Character: Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")

Sam Waterston

Character: John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Robert Prosky

Character: Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Annette Bening

Character: Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

Tim Daly

Character: Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

Madeline Kahn

Character: Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")

Robert Klein

Character: Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")

Art Carney

Character: Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")

Anna Manahan

Character: Hanna (segment "Lovers")

Joan Allen

Character: Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

Peter Friedman

Character: Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

Linda Lavin

Character: Marjorie (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")

Michele Lee

Character: Lee (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")

Tony Roberts

Character: Ira (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")

Joe Mantegna

Character: Bobby Gould (segment "Speed-the-Plow")

Ron Silver

Character: Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")

Philip Bosco

Character: Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")

Victor Garber

Character: Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")

Charles S. Dutton

Character: Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson")

Rocky Carroll

Character: Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson")

Carl Gordon

Character: Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson")

S. Epatha Merkerson

Character: Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")

Courtney B. Vance

Character: Corey (segment "Fences")

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Character: King (segment "King Hedley II")

Viola Davis

Character: Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")

Delroy Lindo

Character: Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")

Ed Hall

Character: Bynum Walker (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")

Mel Winkler

Character: Seth Holly (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")

Kevin Kline

Character: Hamlet (segment "Hamlet")

Len Cariou

Character: James Tyrone (segment "Long Day's Journey Into Night")

Morgan Freeman

Character: Jaques (segment "As You Like It")