CLOSING: Ghosts to close early at the Duchess Theatre

Iain Glen’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is to close early at the Duchess Theatre, on 27 March.  Starring Iain Glen, Lesley Sharp and Harry Treadaway, the play was scheduled to finish on 5 May. The show will be followed by a new production of the Broadway hit The Fantasticks, which is the world’s longest running musical.

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HARRY TREADAWAY in Ghosts

A brand new production of Ibsen’s classic play Ghosts comes to the Duchess Theatre on 11 February for a limited run.

Adapted by award-winning playwright Frank McGuinness, the play is starring and directed by Iain Glen, alongside acclaimed TV and stage actress Lesley Sharp, who is currently appearing in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Vaudeville Theatre.

The play also features hot new star Harry Treadaway, who recently acted in Andrea Arnold’s Cannes hit Fish Tank and will also star in forthcoming new films Pelican Blood, set in the world of obsessive birdwatchers, and Albatross, a coming of age comedy with Sebastian Koch and Julia Ormond.

His past work include Brothers Of The Head and Control, and in Ghosts he plays Oswald alongside Malcolm Storry as Engstrand.

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Theatre pieces: Hunter Parrish, August:Osage County, Chichester

After Gareth Gates, do we have a new Joseph?

Gareth Gates seems to be doing a fine job in Joseph at the Adelphi Theatre – at least if comments on the westendtheatre blog are anything to go by. Whilst musing on Spring Awakening’s demise on Broadway, we turn our attention to Hunter Parrish – pot smoking star of TV’s Weeds – who recently played the lead role of Melchior on Broadway.

Well known for his love of all things theatrical, in a recent interview he said: “I want them to bring back Joseph [and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]. If anyone has that idea, I’m your man!” Could he be prize casting post-Gareth – or in any future Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway plans?

August the Movie?

Apparently a film version of August: Osage County, the play by Tracy Letts that wowed critics and audiences alike at the National Theatre recently, is on the cards. Written by Letts herself, the Weinstein Company is backing the adaptation and aiming for a 2011 release. There are some potential dream casting scenarios for this one.

Starry Chichester

There is much oo-ing and ahh-ing over this year’s Chichester Festival Theatre season, with lots of big name stars. Chief amongst them is Joseph Fiennes who is to headline Trevor Nunn‘s staging of Cyrano de Bergerac; also Rupert Goold directs Enron before it makes it’s way to the Royal Court; Oklahoma! gets a revival from Sweeney Todd stage director John Doyle, Iain Glen stars in a new adaptation of Friedrich Schiller play Wallenstein, and Diana Rigg stars as Judith Bliss in a revival of  Noel Coward’s Hay Fever.

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