The article text supplied only contains site navigation boilerplate ("Music/Film/Travel/Art/News/Shop/Mailing List", "Cover Story | Yard Act") — no actual article content about Philip Seymour Hoffman's stage debut came through, likely because the page didn't scrape properly. I can't summarise content that isn't there without inventing details.

Could you paste the full article text, or would you like me to try fetching the URL directly?