‘The Seagull’ with Emilia Clarke and ‘A Doll’s House’ with Jessica Chastain to be rescheduled
West End stage debuts on hold for Emilia Clarke & Jessica Chastain
West End stage debuts on hold for Emilia Clarke & Jessica Chastain
Jamie Lloyd directs Jessica Chastain in Henric Ibsen’s A Dolls House
Carrie Cracknell’s critically acclaimed Young Vic production of A Doll’s House will transfer to the West End for a strictly limited 12 week run beginning 8 August 2013. Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens’ new version of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is booking at the Duke of York’s Theatre to 26 October 2013, with press night on 14 August at 7pm.
Hattie Morahan stars as Nora in a West End transfer of the Young Vic’s acclaimed production of Ibsen’s classic A Doll’s House.
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Gillian Anderson is to star in a new production of Ibsen’s classic play A Doll’s House at the Donmar Warehouse. She will be joined by a stellar cast that will include Christopher Eccleston, Toby Stephens, Tara Fitzgerald and Anton Lesser. In a new version by Zinnie Harris, the play will be directed by Kfir Yefet and designed by Anthony Ward. In the classic drama, Nora loves her husband above all else. But when she risks her reputation in order to save his, she begins to question her devotion and finds herself fighting for her own life. Zinnie Harris’s new version …
If theatre mirrors life then you would expect 2009 to be a bad year for the performing arts in London: economic downturns and credit crunches sound like gloomy news for our discretionary entertainment spending. But West End theatre box office figures have kept on going up in recent years, and the huge number of new productions sailing into town during 2009 could mean that Theatreland manages to buck the trend. THE GREAT REVIVAL The RSC, National Theatre, Donmar and Old Vic dominated straight drama in the West End in 2008, and they haven’t finished yet. Big hitters coming to …