{"id":396675,"date":"2026-04-17T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:11:08","slug":"christine-baranski-to-make-west-end-debut-alongside-richard-e-grant-in-hay-fever-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396675\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Baranski to make West End debut alongside Richard E Grant in Hay Fever | Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christine Baranski is to make her West End debut alongside Richard E Grant in a revival of No\u00ebl Coward\u2019s comedy Hay Fever. The US star, known for her TV roles in The Good Fight and The Gilded Age<\/a>, says she is looking forward to \u201ctearing a passion to tatters\u201d in the 1925 play about a family toying with their guests at a country house party.<\/p>\n

She will star as the newly retired actor Judith Bliss, with Grant playing her novelist husband. Baranski has twice won the Tony award for best featured actress in a play \u2013 with New York productions of Tom Stoppard\u2019s The Real Thing<\/a> in 1984 and Neil Simon\u2019s Rumors in 1989. She also appeared in the comedies Hurlyburly (in 1985) and Boeing-Boeing (in 2008) on Broadway.<\/p>\n

Directed by Emily Burns \u2013 who has been acclaimed<\/a> for her recent Royal Shakespeare Company productions \u2013 Hay Fever will run at Wyndham\u2019s theatre from 22 September to 12 December. Further casting is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

Baranski said she attended her first West End<\/a> play in 1971 when she was a student at Juilliard: \u201cSo it\u2019s rather a dream come true \u2026 I look forward to a life in London, a city I absolutely adore.\u201d She called Grant \u201cwhip-smart and wickedly funny\u201d and described the play as a \u201c101-year-old comedy of appalling manners\u201d that requires \u201cquicksilver delivery and suave flamboyance\u201d.<\/p>\n

Grant said it had been 25 years since he guest-starred for a night in The Play What I Wrote at Wyndham\u2019s and that he was delighted to return to its stage \u201cand maybe to a bigger dressing room\u201d in Hay Fever. It marks a long-awaited, high-profile return to the theatre for Grant, recently seen in supporting roles in the films The Thursday Murder Club, 100 Nights of Hero and, as the British Tory MP David Maxwell Fyfe, Nuremberg. In 2005 he had the lead role as a publisher in Simon Gray\u2019s play Otherwise Engaged<\/a> at the Criterion theatre.<\/p>\n

When Hay Fever was staged at the No\u00ebl Coward theatre in 2012<\/a>, Lindsay Duncan had the role of Judith, Kevin R McNally was her husband and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, soon to take Fleabag to the Edinburgh fringe, played their daughter.<\/p>\n

The last few months have seen a rush of Coward revivals including Fallen Angels<\/a> at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, Easy Virtue<\/a> at Cambridge\u2019s Arts theatre, his early play The Rat Trap<\/a> at Park theatre in London and two different Manchester productions of Private Lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christine Baranski is to make her West End debut alongside Richard E Grant in a revival of No\u00ebl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-396675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}