Macbeth Revival 2000 - Articles Page 21

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce that The Public Theater's 2006 Summer Gala will bring the Public's 50th Anniversary Season to a close by honoring Kevin Kline and Meryl Streep, two prominent actors who have made significant artistic contributions to The Public Theater over the last four decades.

The New York Times reports that Jennifer Ehle is headed along with Liev Schreiber to Central Park in the Public Theater's new production of Macbeth. Kicking off the Public Theater's new summer season, the show will be directed by Moises Kaufman, with performances to begin on June 13.

In his first year out of Juilliard, Oscar has made two movies and starred in two plays, last summer's 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' in Central Park and 'Beauty of the Father,' now running at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

A full program has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival in April

EVITA, one of the world's greatest musicals, returns to London's West End after 21 years this summer. Directed by the award-winning Michael Grandage and featuring lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the brand new production of the smash-hit stage show has its Press Night at the Adelphi Theatre on June 21st.

This fall, cries ofrevolt rock the Roman Capitol - and The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey- in Shakespeare's brilliant political thriller, Julius Caesar. Loyalty,honor and betrayal collide in this searing tale of revolution, in which omensof doom and deadly conspiracies erupt into civil war, and leaders rise and falllike the tides.

Maria Friedman, the leading lady of the British musical theatre, makes her Broadway debut in London's smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, opening on Broadway Thursday, November 17th at the Marquis Theatre (211 W 45th St).

The production, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and directed by Edward Berkeley, will be performed March 17-19 and 22, 2005.