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BBC Radio 4 Front Row Interview

American Buffalo

by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | April 23, 2015

Damian Lewis and director Daniel Evans were on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row on Thursday to discuss American Buffalo. Click here to listen to the interview on the BBC website. Click here to download it from the Media section.

American Buffalo is at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London until June 27th. Visit the Delfont Mackintosh Theatres website for more ticket information.

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New Production Stills from ‘American Buffalo’

Damian Lewis and John Goodman in American Buffalo

Check out the first production stills of American Buffalo in the gallery linked below. American Buffalo, starring Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge, is at the Wyndham’s Theatre until June 27th. Click here at the Delfont Mackintosh Theatres for more booking information.

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Damian Lewis is unrecognisable in West End revival of ‘American Buffalo’

Damian Lewis in 'American Buffalo'

He’s best known for playing Sergeant Nicholas Brody in hit TV series Homeland.

But Damian Lewis is making a welcome return to his theatre origins with a lead role in Daniel Evans’ West End revival of American Buffalo.

The 44-year-old actor stars opposite John Goodman in the limited run of the play, which opened at Wyndham’s Theatre in London on 16 April.

Damian plays Walter ‘Teach’ Cole in the dark comedy about three small-time crooks plotting to steal a valuable coin collection.

The star has been given a bad ’70s makeover for the production, sporting thick sideburns, a bushy mustache and a maroon suit.
While he previously confessed playing the junk-shop worker was a ‘challenge’, he certainly looks the part in first-look images from the show.

Damian Lewis with Goodman and Sturridge

The 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet was nominated for a host of awards including two Tonys and received rave reviews from critics at the time.

It was turned into a 1996 film starring Dustin Hoffman and had a short-lived Broadway revival in 2008 starring Cedric the Entertainer and Haley Joel Osment, which closed after just eight performances.

The new London production, which will run until 26 June and also features Far From The Madding Crowd’s Tom Sturridge, is being directed by Damian’s friend Daniel Evans, with whom he trained at Guildhall drama school.

Damian – who is married to fellow thespian Helen McCrory – has been plotting his return to the stage for quite some time, telling The Guardian, ‘I’ve tried about three or four times in the last couple of years and things have fallen apart.

‘With theatre, you have to plan almost a year in advance. But we got lucky – a theatre was available.’

This is far from the popular star’s first foray into theatre since he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for five years in the 1990s.

He was last seen onstage at opposite Keira Knightley in Molière’s The Misanthrope in 2009.

Source: Daily Mail

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Damian Lewis: Red Hot, Sunday Times, April 12, 2015

Original article at the Times

Red hot

Back on the London stage after years of top TV, what could the thoughtful actor Damian Lewis possibly have to worry about?

(Francesco Guidicini)

Bryan Appleyard
April 12 2015, 1:01am Continue reading Damian Lewis: Red Hot, Sunday Times, April 12, 2015

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Backstage Secrets of American Buffalo: ‘We’re acting out hidden desires’ – April 11, 2015

Backstage secrets of American Buffalo: ‘We’re acting out hidden desires’

Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge tell Mick Brown why they’ll be grappling with ‘primal issues of manhood’ in a new revival of the David Mamet classic

By – The Telegraph – 11 April 2015

Band of brothers: Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge in rehearsal for the London revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo Photo: Jenny Lewis

It is a week into rehearsals for the new production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, and the play’s three actors, John GoodmanDamian Lewis and Tom Sturridge, have been getting to know each other. They have been to lunch. They have been playing poker. (Who won, I ask? “Becca,” says Sturridge ruefully, referring to the production’s youthful assistant stage manager, who has been ruthlessly cleaning them all out.) And, of course, there have been long and earnest discussions about the text.

“There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play,” Sturridge says. “You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, ‘All right, how are you?’ Very quickly we were talking in an intimate way about how people feel.”

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Red Hot Interview – April 11, 2015

Acting: A Leap of Faith

by Bryan Appleyard | The Sunday Times | April 11, 2015

The Sunday Times - April 12th
There’s no easy way of saying this, but the man who has just walked into the rather funereal sitting room in the West End’s Noël Coward Theatre has red hair.

It’s not carroty red, but it is indisputably red. I’m no reddist, but I still feel we need to get this out of the way — after all, he has bravely tackled this fraught subject in the past.

“People find it very difficult to be indifferent to red hair,” he once said. Emboldened, I plunge in.

“So, Damian Lewis, what is it about red hair?”

“Well, I was never bullied at school because of it. I was lucky because I was sporty, and I had status and profile within the school [Eton]. Now I get letters from children who get teased about their red hair and they ask how I managed.”

Having survived childhood unscathed, it wasn’t until he found himself working with the Royal Green Jackets on the television drama Warriors that he first endured the full force of institutional reddism in the military — “I experienced witty and scatological abuse all around, being a redhead.”

Times have changed, however; red rights are widely accepted. Maybe he is destined to be the redheads’ Martin Luther King. “The redhead stock is very high at the moment. This might be a unique moment in recent history: redheads everywhere are doing well — Prince Harry, Ed Sheeran, Julianne Moore, me, Lily Cole…”

Continue reading Red Hot Interview – April 11, 2015

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Still Hungry for the Wolf? Where to See Your Favourite Wolf Hall Actor – Feb 25, 2015

Still hungry for the Wolf? Where to see your favourite Wolf Hall actors in the cinema and at the theatre in London

by OLIVIA WILLIAMS  – Evening Standard – 25 February 2015

Wolf whistles: (clockwise from top left) Damian Lewis, Mark Rylance, Jonathan Pryce, Mark Gatiss, Claire Foy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Tom Holland and Jessica Raine

We are going to miss the drama of Wolf Hall, all whispered threats, candlelit stares and Henry VIII’s alarming mood swings. Hilary Mantel’s bewitching tale was a televisual feast but now the final episode has aired, where will we get our fix of all those fine British actors?

Luckily, many of the key Wolf Hall players will be treading the boards across London this spring. You’ll be able to experience Damian Lewis’s husky repartee and Mark Rylance’s brooding looks in the flesh. Failing that, you can head to the cinema to watch Mark Gatiss continue his sinister streak in Victor Frankenstein, or Tom Holland still having a hard time — on an 1820 whaling trip in In the Heart of the Sea.

Here’s a rundown of where you can see your favourite Wolf Hallers next.

 ON STAGE

Damian Lewis (Henry VIII)

See him in: American Buffalo, Wyndham’s Theatre, Apr 16-Jun 27
What to expect: From blue blood to blue collar as Lewis swaps his tights and codpiece for worker’s overalls in David Mamet’s 1970s drama. He’s dusting off his Homeland-perfected American accent to play a small-time Chicago crook planning a heist. There won’t be quite the wheeler-dealing of Henry’s court, but expect betrayal and dark comedy in Lewis’s first West End performance since he starred in The Misanthrope with Keira Knightley in 2009.
More info: americanbuffalotheplay.com

Read the rest of the original article at The Evening Standard