Dominic West Back on Stage in Simon Gray’s Butley???

Dominic West, best known to TV fans from The Wire, seems to have got the theatre bug again after his recent stint in Life Is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse. Our chief critic and blogger Michael Coveney hears that West will be heading back to the stage in a new revival of Simon Gray’s Butley, directed by Lindsay Posner. The 1971 play centres on a professor trying to cope with the strains of divorce and academia. Since Simon Gray’s death from cancer in 2008, there’s been a renaissance of his work, including the Donmar’s current production of Gray’s The Late Middle Classes starring Helen McCrory.