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Albert Wolsky was nominated for a Tony Award® for Best Costume Design of a Play for THE HEIRESS. Judith Ivey was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play. The annual awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, June 9, 2013.

THE HEIRESS and more stellar stage productions make up Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten List of Best Theater in the past year.

The Best Actress, Drama Golden Globes nominations have been announced, and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) is among those who received nominations.

Photographer Terry Tsiolis captures the Broadway star of THE HEIRESS off the stage.

THE HEIRESS star Jessica Chastain has also been praised for her work in Zero Dark Thirty, winner of Film of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle.

At 81, after winning two Oscars, a TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for Costume Design, and many other accolades, costume designer Albert Wolsky says he’s only now becoming comfortable with the notion of turning down work. That’s partly, he says, because his current project, a production of THE HEIRESS on Broadway, was so much fun to do.

Merchant’s House Museum welcomed the cast of the Broadway revival of THE HEIRESS, the 1947 play based on Washington Square, for the cast's first lessons in Jamesian living.

Meet the first-nighters at the opening of Broadway's new production of THE HEIRESS starring Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens.

The set designer of THE HEIRESS is the Tony® winner Derek McLane, who will be creating the sets for this year’s Oscar Awards®. The New York Times met him recently on the set to learn what’s involved in recreating a drawing room from the past.

The new Broadway production of the Tony Award winning play The Heiress began previews on October 6th and will open tomorrow night. Get a first look at a video montage of scenes from the new production!

Some fans of Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens may find their casting in the new Broadway revival of THE HEIRESS a bit confounding.

Broadway.com chatted with Dan Stevens about his new life in New York City, meeting American fans at THE HEIRESS, and whether he’d play Matthew Crawley if a Downton Abbey musical came to Broadway.


On the surface, the story of THE HEIRESS seems simple enough—a wealthy young woman in Victorian New York is torn between her controlling father and a young, penniless suitor. Is the father being overprotective? Is the young man just a cad? But there's much more going on, says director Moisés Kaufman.

Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain inherits her role in THE HEIRESS from a sisterhood of acclaimed actresses.

“I think that I’ve always been a great lover of Henry James,” director Moisés Kaufman told The Huffington Post in a recent interview. "He had such keen insight into human psychology."

Jessica Chastain has been called many things. Time Magazine declared her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Vanity Fair said she is among the Best Dressed. And she is the current holder of Victoria's Secret's "Sexiest Smile." Chastain has her own title—Hopeless Theater Nerd.

New York Observer manages to snag some time with Dan Stevens, one of television's busiest men, starring in Broadway's THE HEIRESS.

The sight of Dan Stevens in modern attire shouldn’t be disarming, but it is. As Downton Abbey’s swoonworthy Matthew Crawley, he’s become the epitome of Edwardian-era gentility; so the blond, blue-eyed British actor looks a bit anachronistic wearing a dark T-shirt, cargo pants and sneakers with orange socks in the café at the Signature Center.

Judith Ivey knows things about her latest character that even the playwrights didn’t know. Or rather, she’s intuited things, and just because they’re not explicitly stated in the script doesn’t mean they can’t shape her performance.

The producers of the upcoming Broadway production of the Tony Award®-winning play THE HEIRESS announced Sept. 17 that previews will begin one day earlier than originally announced; performances will now commence Oct. 6 at 8 PM at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 W. 48th St.).

Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens, David Strathairn, Judith Ivey, and additional cast members of the Broadway revival of Ruth & Augustus Goetz's THE HEIRESS met the press Thursday, September 13 at the Empire Hotel.

Long a word-of-mouth director’s darling, Jessica Chastain finally made her name—and the awards circuit—with six films last year, including "The Tree of Life" and "The Help." This month she stars in the Prohibition gangster drama "Lawless," then debuts on Broadway in THE HEIRESS.

The reluctant heir to "Downton Abbey" has made it ashore in New York, where he’s about to both court and star in Broadway's THE HEIRESS.

Jessica Chastain, who makes her Broadway debut in THE HEIRESS on Nov. 1, is a trained stage actress who spent four transformative years at Juilliard, from which she graduated in 2003. She sits down with the New York Times to reminisce about becoming an actress.

Virginia Kull, Kieran Campion and more complete the cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s THE HEIRESS.