Tom Hiddleston West End Come back

He did alright in the Hank Williams biopic. I seem to recall there was singing in Cymbeline too?

I guess he needs something to restore him some credibility after the whole Taylor Swift debacle. All that effort with his previous work and especially 'The Night Manager' recently and then he turns himself into a bit of a joke with the Hiddleswift stuff . . .

I'm still fascinated by Hiddleswift (which is ongoing but much more on the down low). When you bear in mind how private he usually is, and how burnt by the media she's been, it seems extremely odd for them to go so public so soon after her previous relationship ended. I'm sure it is possible to fall head over heels that quickly, but the public nature of it all just rings extremely false for me. I just can't buy that it's an authentic relationship.

The princes' roles aren't big enough for him.  But it's been a long time since a major revival of Company... He would also be ideal for the lead in Merrily but that has been done too well too recently.

With Taylor as Ophelia!!!

Not exactly the case with Cumberbatch, that was a situation where an actor and director who were old friends came to a mutual decision to do a production. I don't think he had any involvement in the rest of casting.

A better example would be the Tennant and Tate Much Ado, where (because of their financial interest) they picked the director without prior relationship and were involved in the rest of the casting. Though that production was great and gave then-drama student Tom Bateman his first acting role.

It's not a PR stunt. That theory was cooked-up by some overwrought fangirls who are in denial that their internet boyfriend is going out with someone other than them. Hiddleston's not been as private in the past as people seem to think - Taylor Swift is by far his most high-profile girlfriend, but this is certainly not the first time he has been seen out and about with one, and this is not the first girlfriend that over-invested fans have had a meltdown over. They managed to bully one girlfriend off Twitter. It's just the press were not interested when the woman in question was not famous and he was not being touted as the next Bond.

The gossip rags must have got bored of publishing pictures of him running on the beach or walking though airports in the same outfit - the paps have stopped following him everywhere. Possibly they're all off hoping to catch Orlando Bloom naked again. The various fan Tumblrs are still tracking them, though. They're still together. He flew from LA to Rhode Island on her private jet to see her last saturday, and back again to LA tuesday evening before heading on to Australia for Thor III filming. They've been spotted out and about together even when papparazzi were not around.

As for stage work, my bet is that it'll be in New York rather than the West End. He's been spotted going to several meetings in New York clutching what looked suspiciously like a script-sized envelope - it could be a for a film, of course, but film meetings tend to be in LA rather than NYC. He's expressed a desire to work on Broadway, as he has never done it - he's only ever worked at BAM.

Naturally he wants to do Hamlet - they all want to! - and the next few years are prime for that, but he's also been mentioning Othello a lot recently, and Branagh says they've had conversations about Much Ado. I wouldn't rule out him doing something contemporary, though - in Night Manager interviews he's been talking about wanting to do more stuff that has topical or contemporary resonance. It'll all depend on Avengers scheduling, though - he said recently he doesn't officially know what he is doing next, which suggests he has stuff lined up he can't announce yet.

Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Living the life, eh.

Anyway, thanks, I stand corrected   Not that I care much. It was nice to see him as Coriolanus and I generally like him, but there are others I'd be more excited about seeing on stage in London. I'd gladly swap him for Josh Groban for example.

Yes, I know that made me sound like a stalker, but I promise I'm not!

I've just been around in the 'fandom' long enough to know who the stalkers are, so I can read their tumblrs without having to do the leg-work myself.

There are some really obsessive types out there - and some are as delusional as the Cumberbatch crazies.

Hiddleston fans have nothing on Swift fans, by the way - they literally track her private jet, and the social media accounts of all her known friends and family members. They get really anxious if they can't find out where she is for a few days. It's actually kind of worrying.