Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski in Hay Fever, Gillian Anderson in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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This week, two starry openings in the West End: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant bring Noel Coward's frothy classic Hay Fever to the Wyndham's and Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Plus Game of Thrones star Wilf Scolding and Orange is the New Black star Lorraine Toussaint talk about The Story at the National Theatre - with another excellent onstage mishap.
And Liv Andrusier, about to appear in the reworked version of Martin Guerre at the Old Vic, answers five questions.
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