'The Present': Director John Crowley Delivers a Birthday Cate (Blanchett) to Broadway
During the past decade, Cate Blanchett from faraway Down Under has dazzlingly paraded some world-famed females before New York audiences"Hedda Gabler, one of The Maids, Blanche DuBois, Vanya's Elena Andreyev"but, for her belated Broadway bow January 8 at the Barrymore, she opted to play a lesser-known character. Anna Petrovna is lesser known because she was in the first draft of the first play by Anton Chekhov, an…