Ibsen To The Rescue

OLD STAGE HAND: Stewart returns to the West End to play The Master Builder

London's West End, theater's most hallowed ground, has of late been long on celebrity and short on serious theater. A parade of Hollywood stars with minimal acting chops have invaded Theaterland — among them Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, but most notoriously Madonna in the execrable Up For Grabs — many of them sellout performances in every sense of the phrase. After Matthew Perry (one of the Friends ) began filling the Comedy Theatre with his lightweight turn in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago , you began to wonder if schlock is the only way to sell tickets these...

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