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STANleY Townsend, right, who will play Addison Dewitt, the vicious theatre critic who gets the measure of ruthless eve Harrington in All About eve, the story of an unknown who wants to supplant reigning Broadway star Margo channing.
The film version starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders and Marilyn Monroe, below right.
A stage version, directed by ivo van Hove and starring Gillian Anderson, lily James and Townsend, begins performances at the Noel coward on February 2, taking over from current occupant The inheritance (which won writer Matthew lopez the evening Standard’s award for best play). eve has sold close to £3 million worth of tickets already. RAQUEL CASSIDY, Tara Fitzgerald, Justine Mitchell, Khalid Abdalla, Fisayo Akinade, Risteard Cooper, Elliot Cowan and Adam James, who are in the ensemble company of American playwright Anne Washburn’s new play Shipwreck, described as a ‘nightmarish comedy’ about Donald Trump in cHRiSTiAN Bale and Amy Adams, who are giving masterclass performances as Dick cheney (George w. Bush’s number two in the white House) and his wife lynne in Adam McKay’s unmissable film Vice (which is out here on January 25).
cheney was doing the most extraordinary things, in plain sight, when he was vice president. it’s a movie about how to attain power in the most underhand way.