Kim Cattrall to star in Sweet Bird of Youth at Old Vic
October 12, 2012
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Kevin Spacey’s last season as Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre will see Hollywood actress Kim Cattrall star in Sweet Bird of Youth this June.
Kim Cattrall in Private Lives at the Vaudeville Theatre in 2010
Cattrall, who is most famous for playing Samantha in Sex And The City and recently starred in Antony and Cleopatra at the Chichester Festival Theatre, will play fading movie star Alexandra del Lago in Tennessee Williams’s 1959 play Sweet Bird Of Youth.
The play will be directed by the Tony and Olivier Award-winning co-director of War Horse, Marianne Elliott, with rehearsals from April and a June opening at the Old Vic.
There is no news on who will be cast as Chance Wayne, Alexandra’s gigolo boyfriend and a role immortalised on film by Paul Newman. Producers are believed to be looking for a high-profile American leading man.
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STAGE SPY CHECK-LIST
- Show: Sweet Bird of Youth
- Theatre: Old Vic
- Director: Marianne Elliott
- Stars: Kim Cattrall
- Opens: June 2013
- Original source: Daily Mail
Sheridan Smith stars in Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic: Ticket Offer – Save 35%
September 3, 2012
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Sheridan Smith as Hedda Gabler
Sheridan Smith as Hedda Gabler
Olivier Award-winner Sheridan Smith stars in the Old Vic’s major new production of Ibsen’s masterpiece Hedda Gabler, directed by Anna Mackmin. Brian Friel’s adaptation of this seminal work reveals a play as fresh and shocking as when it was originally written.
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The Duchess of Malfi – Reviews Round-up
April 1, 2012
Reviews of the Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic Theatre starring Eve Best.
Eve Best in The Duchess of Malfi
Jamie Lloyd’s new production of John Webster’s classic Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi has opened at the Old Vic. In the title role is Eve Best (Nurse Betty), joined by Game of Thrones star Harry Lloyd as Ferdinand, Tom Bateman as Antonio Bologna and Finbar Lynch as The Cardinal Of Aragon.
Webster’s poetic masterpiece tells the dark and bloody story of the recently widowed Duchess as she struggles to retain strength and dignity in the face of death.
See reviews below from the Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard and more.
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HARRY LLOYD in The Duchess of Malfi
March 25, 2012
Game of Thrones star Harry Lloyd joins Eve Best in the Old Vic’s new production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
HARRY LLOYD in The Duchess of Malfi
Harry’s stage credits include:
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EVE BEST in The Duchess of Malfi
March 11, 2012
Nurse Jackie star Eve Best returns to the Old Vic this summer in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
EVE BEST in The Duchess of Malfi
Eve’s stage career includes Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic) in 1999 (Best Newcomer Evening Standard Award, Best Newcomer Critics’ Circle Award), Hedda Gabler (Olivier Award), A Moon For The Misbegotten (Old Vic and Broadway) and As You Like It (Sheffield Crucible) in 2007, The Homecoming (Cort Theatre NY) in 2008 and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe) in 2011.
TV work includes The Bill and Casualty in 2000, The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells in 2001, Shackleton in 2002, Waking the Dead in 2004, Lie with Me in 2004, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries in 2005, Vital Signs in 2006, Prime Suspect: The Final Act in 2006 and the US hit series Nurse Jackie, which started in 2009. Other recent credits include The American Experience and Dolley Madison in 2010, and The Shadow Line in 2011.
Film work includes The King’s Speech.
Eve Best stars in John Webster‘s great Jacobean tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Jamie Lloyd. The cast also includes Madeline Appiah, Harry Attwell, Tom Bateman, Mark Bonnar, Adam Burton, Vyelle Croom, Lucy Eaton, Taylor James, Tunji Kasim, Harry Lloyd, Finbar Lynch, Nari Blair Mangat, Iris Roberts, Alan Westaway and Freddie Anness-Lorenz, Alexander Aze and Max Furst.
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Game of Thrones star Harry Lloyd to join Eve Best in The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic
February 12, 2012
The full cast of Jamie Lloyd’s new production of John Webster’s classic Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi has been announced.
Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones
Joining Eve Best (Nurse Betty) in the title role at the Old Vic from 17 March 2012, will be Game of Thrones star Harry Lloyd as Ferdinand, plus Tom Bateman as Antonio Bologna and Finbar Lynch as The Cardinal Of Aragon. They are joined by Madeline Appiah, Harry Attwell, Mark Bonnar, Adam Burton, Vyelle Croom, Lucy Eaton, Taylor James, Tunji Kasim, Nari Blair Mangat, Iris Roberts and Alan Westaway.
Eve Best last appeared in London in 2011 at the Globe Theatre in Much Ado About Nothing. She last performed at the Old Vic in 2006 opposite Kevin Spacey in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Webster’s poetic masterpiece tells the dark and bloody story of the recently widowed Duchess as she struggles to retain strength and dignity in the face of death.
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Old Vic’s first West End adventure
July 13, 2010
Old Vic make journey into the West End with The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic theatre company will open its first West End show tonight, at the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand.
A new production of Neil Simon’s 1971 comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue is the first project for the theatre company in the West End, and stars Hollywood actors Jeff Goldblum (Tall Guy) and Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King) for a limited season at the Vaudeville Theatre.
In the show Goldblum stars as Mel Edison, a man at breaking point. In the heat of a New York City summer his air-conditioning has broken, his neighbours won’t shut-up, his job is hanging by a thread and there are a gang of burglars on the prowl.
Terry Johnson, flush from his Tony success for La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway, directs the show.
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ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK:
Wednesday sees the opening of Ghost Stories at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London, following a sell-out season run at the Lyric Hammersmith.
A truly terrifying theatrical experience written and directed by The League of Gentlemen’s master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator and director of Derren Brown’s television and stage shows and star of Dead Set and Severance.
As three men gather together, each has an uncanny, chilling tale to tell. Ghost Stories played a hugely successful run at the Lyric Hammersmith before transferring to the Duke of York’s theatre in the West End. The show stars Nicholas Burns, David Cardy, Ryan Gage and Andy Nyman.
The show is strictly for theatregoers aged 16 and older.
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Summer Theatre in the West End
June 28, 2010
New shows opening in London this summer
Spring and autumn may be the busiest times for new shows in London, but this summer will still pack quite a punch with some big names, high-profile directors and a few surprises in store.
A range of musicals and plays will open in the capital over the next few months, including classic musicals from Stephen Sondheim (Into the Woods) and Rogers & Hammerstein (State Fair); starry comedy, including David Hyde Pearce and Joanna Lumley in La Bete, Jeff Goldblum in The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Simon Russell Beal and Jonathan Groff in Deathtrap); dance spectaculars (Burn the Floor), new musicals (Wolfboy), ambitious children’s drama (The Railway Children) and a terrifying new play (Ghost Stories).
JEFF GOLDBLUM in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
June 22, 2010
Kevin Spacey lures Jeff Goldblum back to town
Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum is back in London, following his sell-out success in Speed-the-Plow at the Old Vic.
This time Kavin Spacey is making his first Old Vic venture in the West End, with an Old Vic-produced revival of Neil Simon’s comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue at the Vaudeville Theatre from 30 June to 11 September.
In the show Goldblum stars as Mel Edison, a man at breaking point. In the heat of a New York City summer his air-conditioning has broken, his neighbours won’t shut-up, his job is hanging by a thread and there are a gang of burglars on the prowl.
The play is directed by Terry Johnson, flush from his Tony Award success for La Cage Aux Folles, and also stars Academy Award-winner Mercedes Ruehl.
Jeff Goldblum’s numerous film credits include The Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day and The Tall Guy. His Broadway credits include The Pillowman for which he won an Outer Critics’ Circle Award.
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MERCEDES RUEHL in The Prisoner of Second Avenue
June 1, 2010
American film and stage star to play Neil Simon comedy
Film and stage star Mercedes Ruehl will appear in the Old Vic in the West End’s new production of Neil Simon’s comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue, at the Vaudeville Theatre from 30 June to 11 September.
In the show Ruehl stars as loyal wife Edna, who has to pick up the pieces when her husband, Mel, has a New York meltdown.
The play is directed by Terry Johnson, flush from his Tony Award success for La Cage Aux Folles, and also stars Hollywood’s Jeff Goldblum as Mel.
Mercedes Ruehl won an Oscar for her performance in The Fisher King and multiple awards including a Tony for her Broadway performance in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, alongside Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey.
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