Delightfully goony,” wrote The New York Times of Dan Stevens’s performance in his first professional play. It was 2005, and the young British actor, straight out of Cambridge University, was at Brooklyn Academy of Music, cast as Orlando in Peter Hall’s touring production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. “A breezily confident professional debut,” agreed Variety, calling Stevens’s Orlando a “sweet, swooning lad.”
It’s been seven years since that play, and now the world is swooning for Stevens. Playing the upstanding Edwardian heartthrob Matthew Crawley in the Masterpiece mega-hit Downton Abbey, he has acquired a global fan base and a high profile. This October he returns to the New York stage in the role of a more complicated heartthrob: Morris Townsend, the handsome bounder in The Heiress, the 1947 adaptation of the Henry James novel of 1880, Washington Square.
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