Daniel Radcliffe cast in Tom Stoppard play at Old Vic

Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a 50th-anniversary production of Tom Stoppard’s verbally dazzling Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The Old Vic Theatre says the former Harry Potter star will play Rosencrantz in the comedy about two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Joshua McGuire will play Guildenstern in the production, which opens in March.

Radcliffe, who is 27, was last onstage in London in a 2013 production of The Cripple of Inishmaan that later ran in New York. He has also appeared on Broadway in Equus and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.