jeffrey brown recently spoke toe the duo to take it on. it is part of our regular series covering arts and culture, "canvas." >> i want something of value. you got anything of value, lee"true west" is a tale of sibling rivalry spiraling to the breaking point >> i am about to kick your ass out of here. >> oh, now you're going to kick me out? oh, oh, now i'm the intruder. >> brown: going at it nightly in a new broadway production by the roundabout theater: 48-year-old ethan hawke, as le menacing, a petty criminal and drifter; and paul dano, 34, as austp,, a buttonedtraight-arrow, hollywood screenwriter. twbrothers, locked in a psychological-- and eventually physic-- battle of wills, while house-sitting their mother's southern california home. hawke was first approached about the revival severayears ago. >> i was planning to say i'm the, the wrong guy. and between the phone calls to plan the meeting, and the meeting, sam passed. so the mting took on a whole different tone. >> brown: "sam," of course, is sam shepard, the pulitzer prize- winning aywright and actor, who died in 2017, known for his portrayals of rootlessch acters making their way at the fringes of the americ