Dan Stevens, Jessica Chastain: The Heiress Opening Night party

The after-effects of Hurricane Sandy didn't stop the Broadway opening night of Ruth & Augustus Goetz's The Heiress, which went on as scheduled on Thursday, November 1. Following the 6pm performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre, the cast, creative team, and guests headed to the swanky after party at the Edison Ballroom.

Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens, David Strathairn, and Judith Ivey lead the cast of the revival, which is directed by Moises Kaufman. The company also includes Molly Camp, Kieran Campion, Virginia Kull, Ben Livingston, Dee Nelson, and Caitlin O'Connell.

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Dan Stevens and Jessica Chastain's glowing review for The Heiress! (EW)

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Opening Date: Nov 01, 2012; Lead Performances: Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens and David Strathairn; Director: Moises Kaufman; Genre: Drama

The frizzy wig Jessica Chastain wears in the Broadway revival of The Heiress does her no favors — but that is exactly the point. Her Catherine Sloper is the plain Jane living in 1850 New York City who becomes tongue-tied in the company of everyone other than her disarming widowed aunt (Judith Ivey). Even her wealthy physician father (David Strathairn) thinks she's a drip — ''a defenseless creature without a shred of poise'' — who pales in comparison with his late wife, who died in childbirth and whom he's idealized ever since.

So when the penniless but socially adroit Morris Townsend comes courting, Dr. Sloper is naturally suspicious. But as played by Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens with a fluid American accent, Morris is no one-note cad. While he freely admits to having blown through his own inheritance and acknowledges the material benefits of a union with Catherine, he also seems to genuinely draw her out of her shell.

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The Heiress, Starring Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens, Opens on Broadway NEWS By Broadway.com Staff November 1, 2012 - 10:17AM (BROADWAY BUZZ)

The Broadway revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s classic play The Heiress opens on November 1 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Starring Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens, the Moises Kaufman-helmed production will play a limited engagement through February 10, 2013.



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Dan Stevens: ‘Downton Abbey’ dreamboat Dan Stevens talks Big Bird and his Broadway debut British actor co-starring with Jessica Chastain savors NYC energy, says he doesn't fear being trapped in series' role of Crawley BY JACOB E. OSTERHOUT / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Matthew Crawley alert!

Sightings of the “Downton Abbey” heartthrob have become common in midtown since British actor Dan Stevens, who plays Crawley on the PBS television series, traded the bucolic English countryside for a buzzing Manhattan.

Stevens’ first order of business: Adjusting to the crush of traffic. Not on the streets, but after the show, outside the Walter Kerr Theatre, where he’s making his Broadway debut opposite “The Help” Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain in the drama “The Heiress.”

“In London, you get people waiting for you at the stage door, but not like here,” says Stevens, 30. “There just seems to be a general excitement about theater in New York. The audiences are famously the best. Cynical, but always engaged.”

For Stevens, who has acted on stage extensively in London, “The Heiress” is his second New York stopover. In 2005 he starred in the Shakespearean love story “As You Like It” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.


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