March 7, 2007 Caroline Ansdell Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers on our Whatsonstage.com Outing on Monday (5 March 2007) to The Man of Mode at the National Theatre enjoyed an extra treat when several members of the cast – principals Tom Hardy, Rory Kinnear, Nancy Carroll, Amit Shah and Madhav Sharma – joined us for an exclusive discussion following their evening performance. In George Etherege’s 1676 [...]

May 12, 2004 Samantha Ellis The Guardian At 9am yesterday Robert Delamere started rehearsals for a play called Roger and Vanessa. It opens at the Latchmere Theatre in south London tomorrow night. That’s just 24 hours after he opens another play, Whistling Psyche, at the Almeida in north London. By Delamere’s own admission, his week [...]

September 26, 2003 Nicholas de Jongh London Evening Standard You cannot miss the disturbing, erotic frisson when Francesca Annis, with the airs and enigmatic graces of a Harold Pinter femme fatale, arrives at the apartment of Luca, a temperamental medical student she has recently met. Having barely exchanged a few, correct pleasantries, Miss Annis’s Rosa, [...]

April 23, 2003 Nicholas de Jongh London Evening Standard There is a pungent whiff of familiarity about Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play, in which low-life losers drift around a Manhattan bar. Hell’s Kitchen, otherwise known as Times Square, is the location where these life-casualties gather in the 1990s. Mayor Giuliani, Guirgis reminds us, was then gentrifying [...]

March 29, 2004 Paul Taylor The Independent 5 stars The sound of a gushing tap and the escalation of a girl’s laughter into something more disturbing haunt this phenomenal stage version of the Dogme film, Festen. The sound of a gushing tap and the escalation of a girl’s laughter into something more disturbing haunt this phenomenal [...]

Septembe 26, 2003 Michael Billington The Guardian Pity the poor critic! The more one describes of this compelling 1995 play by the Swedish dramatist Lars Noren, the more one subverts its narrative tension; yet it is virtually impossible to discuss its central idea without revealing something of its story. It starts with a Parisian TV [...]

November 27, 2003 Rachel Halliburton London Evening Standard Despite a shaky start involving gun possession and being thrown out of two drama schools, Tom Hardy’s career has blossomed. Now, the young actor voted Best Newcomer at this week’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards is becoming a Hollywood action hero. At the age of 26, he has [...]

Lara Ehrlich Goodman Theatre You know British actor Tom Hardy from films like Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson, as well as his role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming film Inception. The Goodman’s Lara Ehrlich recently sat down with Tom to talk about his current role as Sammy in Brett C. Leonard’s provocative new play The [...]

March 25, 2004 The Stage Given his sensual good looks it isn’t surprising Tom Hardy won The Big Breakfast Find Me A Model 1998 competition which landed him a contract with a modelling agency. It did come as a surprise to him, however, that this led to an interview for the lead in a movie. [...]

January 15, 2006 Matt Wolf The Times He has promised great things, but Tom Hardy’s only now coming into his tongue-in-cheek own in two BBC dramas. Tom Hardy is not your typical interviewee, but perhaps that’s as it should be, since neither is the 28-year-old just another Brit-boy actor. He is restless, intense, his good [...]

January 10, 2010 Gordon Cox Variety Brit thesp Tom Hardy will topline the cast of Brett C. Leonard’s play “The Long Red Road,” helmed by Philip Seymour Hoffman at Chicago’s Goodman Theater. In “Road,” Hardy (“Wuthering Heights,” “RocknRolla”) — also cast in the upcoming Mad Max pic “Fury Road” — will play Sam, a man [...]

November 3, 2003 Matt Wolf Variety (Royal Court Jerwood Theater Upstairs, London; 376 Seats; &Pound;26 ($43.50) Top) A Royal Court Theater presentation of a play in one act by Lars Noren, translated by Maja Zade. Directed by James Macdonald. Rosa – Francesca Annis Madeleine – Ingrid Lacey Eric – Nicholas Le Prevost Luca – Tom [...]

March 27, 2004 Charles Spencer The Telegraph Festen By and large I deplore the current trend for turning films into stage plays, but this stunning production is an exception. Thomas Vinterberg’s award-winning movie about a family celebration in which the eldest son publicly accuses his father of sexually abusing both him and his sister packs [...]

February 8, 2007 Charles Spencer The Telegraph The comedies of the English Restoration seem extraordinarily remote. Concentrating almost exclusively on wit, wealth, style and seduction, they present a hermetic, leisured society that seems worlds removed from the vulgarity, banality and ugliness of Blair’s Britain. It’s perhaps for this reason that Restoration comedies are rarely revived [...]

November 12, 2006 Chris Hastings The Telegraph One of Britain’s brightest young stars of stage and screen has been banned by the Government from talking to schoolchildren after he went public about his former life as a drink and drugs addict. Tom Hardy, 29, who starred in the TV series Band of Brothers and The [...]

February 3, 2007 Aleks Sierz The Telegraph Not long ago, actor Tom Hardy was struggling with drink and drugs – now he’s grappling with a tricky 17th-century drama. ‘This role is meant to exude charm and sexiness,” says Tom Hardy, who is currently playing Dorimant in George Etherege’s The Man of Mode, a 1676 Restoration [...]