Lange's most immediate predecessor under the West End spotlight is Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, currently appearing at the Vaudeville Theatre. The former child star came back from six years of self-imposed exile on 20 October to play a teenager being seduced by his French teacher in Madame Melville. The producer of Madame Melville is US theatre veteran Gregory Mosher. His admiration for the London theatre is boundless. He says he can see why it is such a magnet for American film stars.
Theatre is part of people's lives in London.
It is a warm bath that you live in and you take it for granted. The Graduate, installed at the Gielgud Theatre since April. Both are set in the 1960s, both tell the story of a young man seduced by an older woman - and both are star vehicles. She took over from screen siren Kathleen Turner, who caused a flurry of media attention when the play opened because the part requires the actress to strip. Hannah officially took on the stage version of the part made famous on screen by Marilyn Monroe on 9 October, after a week of previews.