All eyes will be on Tony Shalhoub this Sunday night during the 72nd annual Tony Awards ceremony. ... And they were asked to wrangle their younger sisters and brothers to play the kids in the play.

For Shalhoub, 70, who won three Emmys for playing the high-maintenance but lovable Monk (and was nominated for each of its eight seasons), it was even easier to get back into character.

It’s Six Degrees of Tony Shalhoub. It comes with the territory when you have so many brothers and sisters who all have friends and went to different schools, Shalhoub said.

Tony Shalhoub, who turns 71 next month, began his acting career on the stage, then shifted his focus to television.Nothing unusual about that. What is unusual, however, is the frequency with which ...