Juliette Lewis to Star in West End Fool for Love This Summer

Film star Juliette Lewis will make her London stage debut in a production of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love.

According to IMDB, the show will be presented this summer. "I've performed in front of all kinds of crowds in my band, but this is the first time doing a play and I just couldn't say no. The material is so provocative and visceral that I'm really excited to do it," she stated.

Lewis will play May, whose plans with her new boyfriend are thwarted when an old flame--with an undesirable bloodline--appears in her life.

Fool for Love opened at Off-Broadway's Douglas Fairbanks Theatre on November 27th, 1983 and ran for 1,000 performances through September 29th, 1985. The show, which was also directed by Shepard (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class) originally starred Kathy Baker and Ed Harris.

Lewis received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Cape Fear. Other screen and TV credits include Starsky & Hutch, Old School, The Other Sister, Evening Star, Natural Born Killers, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Kalifornia, Husbands and Wives, "The Wonder Years," and "The Facts of Life." She fronts a band called Juliette and the Licks.