Bald Cynthia Nixon Fights Cancer in Lithe ‘Wit’: Jeremy Gerard

The sight of Cynthia Nixon, sheet-white and hooked up to a rolling I.V stand, red baseball cap covering her bald head, is so startling that it takes a few minutes to settle in and savor the rush of words tumbling from the stage.

Millions know her as the carrot-topped lawyer Miranda Hobbes from “Sex and the City.” Theatergoers have watched her grow from late childhood -- when she juggled two Broadway roles simultaneously -- into an actress for whom nuance came easily in shows as disparate as David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Rabbit Hole” and Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Corneille’s “L’Illusion Comique.”