In Vanity Fair s March portfolio, we celebrate stage presence and style with veterans and breakout stars treading the boards in New York and London. They have roles in an adaptation of a classic film, an addendum to a fantastical literary opus, revivals of radical scripts, and trailblazing new works—and they deliver some of the most electrifying performances seen on either side of the pond in recent memory.

Earlier this year, 12 actors and one playwright assembled across three days in New York and London to sit for photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Academy Award nominee Andrew Garfield had the chance to meet Golden Globe winner Matt Bomer for the first time and compare notes on their landmark revivals Angels in America and The Boys in the Band, respectively—while Garfield offered advice on Bomer's Broadway debut. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's Noma Dumezweni, who brings her Olivier Award-winning performance as Hermione to the U.S. in April, held court on set while visiting with new friend Ayad Akhtar, who wrote Junk, and Denise Gough, who earned raves in People, Places & Things and will soon be seen in Angels in America. Emmy winner Bryan Cranston, who stars in a stage adaptation of Network, arrived so well dressed that his own hat made it in for the final frame. The prize for Most Dedicated goes to The Ferryman's Laura Donnelly, who had given birth four days prior to the shoot and, after her solo sitting, posed with her newborn daughter, much to the delight of her partner. The Ferryman playwright Jez Butterworth. Vanity Fair's creative director (fashion and style), Jessica Diehl, who styled the dapper group, was struck by its talent. "Each had a profound love for their work, a sense of community, and a hard-core aspect to their craft," she says. Though some of the plays onstage this season are decades old (George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan was written in 1923), they all share a timeliness and urgency, underscoring the enduring power of the theater. "There is an innate sense of what the future could bring for our society," Cranston says. "Network was written in the early 1970s and has proven to be very prescient about the reality of 2018. It's both frightening and captivatingly entertaining."