Jesse Tyler Ferguson pivots to baseball in a Broadway play

NEW YORK — Earlier this month, Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a private tour of hallowed ground — Yankee Stadium. “It was meaningful in ways that I didn’t expect it to be.” Life was imitating art since the last scene of Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play is a private moment in an empty Yankee Stadium. “I feel like I’m having some of these parallel moments,” Ferguson says. “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams plays the star baller and Ferguson plays his unathletic gay accountant, Mason Marzac, a sweetly zealous convert to the game. The Associated Press recently asked Ferguson his thoughts on the play, why coming out is so important and the unintended benefit of taking away theater-goers’ phones.