The Glass Menagerie
Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2
★★★☆☆

The Unfriend
Minerva Theatre, Chichester
★★★★☆

When Hollywood stars appear on the West End there are two worries: will they remember their lines and might their supposed high-wattage gleam unbalance the production? Amy Adams’s performance in The Glass Menagerie is a success on both counts.

Despite limited stage experience, this six-time Oscar nominee is comfortable in the theatre. She moves easily and gives a likeably naturalistic turn. Investors will be chewing their fists. Isn’t the whole point, when casting a swanky name, to create such a thespy kerfuffle of overacted swagger — even if it is Richard Dreyfuss forgetting his lines or Jessica Lange looking like the Bride of Wildenstein — that the box office