Blanchett on Stage in New York

Cate Blanchett opened tonight in a 4-week season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Sydney production of Hedda Gabler. The first show was a benefit show; the critics are in tomorrow night. However, seats are 90% sold out so the critics won't have much influence on the success of this offering. Cate is reprising her sublime 2004 depiction of Ibsen's slippery, fiendish heroine for the Sydney Theater Company. The role has become a stage tradition, the many actresses playing Hedda always gaining attention, both positive and negative.