Stars Play It Big in London Productions of ‘A Doll’s House,’ ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Phèdre’ and ‘Waiting for Godot’

NYTimes.com: "There are queens, and then there are queens. Helen Mirren, having won an Academy Award as the emotionally clamped-down Elizabeth II in “The Queen,” has donned the purple of royalty again to portray the emotionally unedited title character in Racine’s “Phèdre” at the National Theater. And unless Buckingham Palace keeps its secrets better than anyone suspects, these women have nothing in common except their titles."