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'It's not right': Brian Cox slams Broadway's $1,000 ticket prices and calls out Jake Gyllenhaal's Othello performance


Brian Cox has torn into the sky-high prices of theatre tickets, calling the current state of Broadway 'not right' and singling out Jake Gyllenhaal 's performance in Othello as a 'problem'.

Brian Cox has torn into the sky-high prices of theatre tickets, calling the current state of Broadway 'not right' and singling out Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in Othello as a 'problem'. He went on to compare the lack of theatrical infrastructure in the US to what he sees as a stronger tradition in the UK: 'The British stricture is pretty phenomenal, and it's getting better… My sadness about America is that there isn't a structure. It's a trend mirrored in the UK, where the most expensive seats for Much Ado About Nothing at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane - which starred Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell - were listed at £345.

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