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A Doll’s House.Jamie Lloyd directs a figurative and literal bare-bones version that has been pruned with careful thought by Amy Herzog. Herzog herself is making great strides in the American theater, having been a Pulitzer prize finalist and earning numerous other accolades.With A Doll’s House, she was tasked with a huge undertaking: trim excess from a classic play.

Jessica Chastain has opening on Broadway in her second show!

Trish Deitch There are no props in director Jamie Lloyd’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s drama “A Doll’s House” — no sets, no costumes (just plain contemporary clothing in dark blue), not even a curtain. There’s no dress to be mended, no mailbox, no letter to be read, no cigar to be lit, no children. There are no acts, though Ibsen wrote his 1879 play in three. All you see when you enter the theater is a vast, empty shell of a Broadway stage, the bright houselights exposing the building’s industrial brick walls whose paint has faded from show to show, and a few wooden chairs stacked in back. Oh, and there’s Jessica Chastain, her red hair pulled back, seated in a wooden chair on a turntable and slowly circling the stage in a simple blue dress. It’s hard to say if she’s in character as she comes round again and again — if she’s Nora, that is, a dutiful wife with three young children who, as the play opens, is finally about to get a reprieve from relative poverty because her husband, Torvald (Arian Moayed), has been promoted at the bank where he works — or if it’s Chastain herself placidly looking out at audience members as they file in and get settled in their seats. Over time, one by one, the rest of the cast comes out, taking chairs off a stack onstage, placing them here and there, and sitting quietly with their backs to Chastain.

At more than a few points during Jamie Lloyd’s hypnotic Broadway revival of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, you could swear that stars Jessica Chastain and Succession‘s Arian Moayed are confiding in you, whispering their secrets to no one else. This stark, sometimes chilly production is an eavesdropper’s paradise, so intimate and conversational that all but the most guarded among us will be immune to its frequent enticements.

revival of “A Doll’s House,” starring Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, that opened Thursday night on Broadway. Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes. At the Hudson Theatre, 141 W.

Some recent Broadway arrivals added both star power and box office receipts to the weekly grosses reports, with both Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Parade selling out (the latter despite some loudmouthed neo-Nazi protesters), and A Doll’s House starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella coming close.

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) won the best actress prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her West End debut performance playing a criminal barrister specialising in defending rapists — who is then sexually assaulted herself.

Jessica Chastain is making her return to Broadway next year in a modernized version of Henrik Ibsen's beloved 19th century play A Doll's House.The text is adapted by Amy Herzog, who was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize For Drama for her off-Broadway play 4000 Miles, per The Hollywood Reporter.Helmed by the acclaimed London director Jamie Lloyd, the new revival of A Doll's House will be the first time Jessica has acted on Broadway since 2012. Incoming: Jessica Chastain is making her return to Broadway next year in a modernized version of Henrik Ibsen's beloved 19th century play A Doll's HouseJessica made her debut on the Great White Way that year opposite Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens in a revival of the 1947 play The Heiress.Although Cherry Jones won a Tony for a previous revival of The Heiress and Olivia De Havilland earned an Oscar for the movie, Jessica's production got mixed reviews.

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James McAvoy is celebrating the opening of his play Cyrano de Bergerac!

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James McAvoy reckons he's an "honorary Philadelphian" after announcing he has secretly got married for a second time.

Charlie Cox reunites with Zawe Ashton and Tom Hiddleston at the 2020 Tony Awards on Sunday (September 26) at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.