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Now, in middle age, she has been asked to revisit the work, on the London stage, in the role of the older woman, like a Gertrude who was once an Ophelia.

In the new game, Spacey takes centre stage in the role of Irons, chief executive of the Atlas Corporation, a powerful private military corporation with ambitions to restore order to the world in 2054 after a devastating attack that has laid traditional forces low.

There is a kind of theatrical justice in the idea of Mr. Warner getting past his fear and returning to the stage in the role of Undershaft, a clear-eyed man, supremely comfortable in his own skin, fearless in his advocacy.

As I sat alongside Smith on stage, in the role of panel host, fans shared touching stories about how the show, and Smith's work, had improved their lives.

In 1989, Pfeiffer made her stage debut in the role of Olivia in Twelfth Night, a New York Shakespeare Festival production staged in Central Park.

Enter Ms. Shoop, stage right, in the role of Hodel in the 2004 Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof".

The formal charges came hours before he was to make his stage debut in the role of a suspected criminal in a play he wrote called "The Accused".

The director Thomas Kail, the choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and the musical director Alex Lacamoire will team up, as they most recently did for "In the Heights," while the R&B singer Ashanti will make her theatrical stage debut in the role of Dorothy.

On being mustered out, he resumed his writing and stage career in the role of Mitya in his own version of Dostoyevski's "Brothers Karamazov," an artistic success that failed at the box office.

Jill Clayburgh continues her resurgent stage career in the role of Hannah, a widowed Episcopal minister and scholar who is looking for a ghostwriter for her book about a newly discovered gospel that apparently predates the Big Four and may well be the much-wondered-about ur-gospel from which others sprang.

Making his New York stage debut in the role of Billy Flynn, a veteran criminal lawyer with an oil slick for a tongue and a cash register for a heart, this hugely popular R&B star is cast so hard against type, you would think you would hear him cracking from the collision.