“If I’ve learned anything over the years, it is that Prospero is a role that brings out the peculiar qualities of its interpreter,” the critic Michael Billington recently wrote in The Guardian. “Oscar Wilde said that there are as many Hamlets as there are actors and exactly the same rule applies to Prospero.” Sigourney Weaver is stepping into the role in Jamie Lloyd’s new adaptation of Shakespeare’s revenge play. While she is not the first female to play Prospero—that credit goes to Valerie Braddell, who performed in a 1981 production—this is a first for Weaver, who is making her West End debut. The cast also features Jude Akuwudike as Alonso, Mara Huf as Miranda, Mason Alexander Park as Ariel. Following this production, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell will star as the quarreling lovers Benedick and Beatrice in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s Much Ado About Nothing, set to begin in February. —Jeanne Malle