It's Official! Tom Stoppard's Travesties, Starring Tom Hollander, to Bow in West End

The rumors were true and the acclaimed London revival of Tom Stoppard’s Tony-winning play Travesties will transfer to the West End. Next stop Broadway? Led by Tom Hollander, the production will move from the buzzy Menier Chocolate Factory (where the Tony-winning revival of The Color Purple originated) to the Apollo Theatre. The limited engagement is set to run February 3, 2017 through April 29 and will officially open on February 15. Directed by Patrick Marber, the production is running at the Menier through November 19.

Hollander’s extensive theater resume includes The Judas Kiss on Broadway, along with A Flea in Her Ear, The Threepenny Opera, Tartuffe and The School for Scandal. Screen credits include Doctor Thorne, The Night Manager, Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, The Riot Club, Muppets Most Wanted, The Invisible Woman, Valkyrie, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, A Good Year, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pride & Prejudice, Enigma, Maybe Baby, Ambassadors and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Stoppard’s dazzling comedy of art, love and revolution features James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin as remembered—and misremembered—by Henry Carr (Hollander), a minor British diplomat in Zurich 1917. When Gwendolen and Cecily wander in from The Importance of Being Earnest, Henry’s mind wanders too. He knows he was Algernon in a production in Zurich. But who was the other one?

Along with Hollander the cast includes Clare Foster as Cecily, Freddie Fox as Tristan Tzara, Forbes Masson as Lenin, Peter McDonald as James Joyce, Amy Morgan as Gwendolen and Sarah Quist as Nadya.

Travesties opened at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in 1974, directed by Peter Wood, and played on Broadway the following year, winning the Tony for Best Play. It has never been revived on the Great White Way.