One of the finest English stage actors of the last 20 years doesn’t get over to these shores enough. Stephen Dillane graced our stage in the 2000 revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (and won a Tony), but since then, nada. He portrayed founding father Thomas Jefferson in the 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams, but otherwise, we’ve been denied his flair for brooding, highly interior characters. Well, pine no more. In December and January, New Yorkers get a quadruple shot of Dillane. First, he appears at the Duke on 42nd Street in two works directed by Katie Mitchell: a dramatic recitation of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and One Evening, inspired by Samuel Beckett’s love of Schubert’s music. Beckett’s text—performed by Dillane—will be interspersed with Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise. Then in January, the busy actor extends his sublet to appear in the second season of BAM’s the Bridge Project. As he did last year, Sam Mendes stages two classics in repertory: both by Shakespeare. Dillane will play wizard-father Prospero in The Tempest and melancholy Jacques in As You Like It. Expect to hear more from the actor himself when TONY profiles him in December.