The Almeida Theatre Company

Simon Russell Beale plays the title role in Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, in a new version by Lucinda Coxon. Joining him are Clare Higgins as Gunhild Borkman and Lia Williams as Ella Rentheim. 

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Today, The Almeida Theatre Company Board announced Rupert Goold as the new Artistic Director of the Islington based Almeida Theatre Company.

The Almeida Theatre Company and Aspen today (23 May 2011) are delighted to announce a new three year partnership to start this Summer, building on the existing long term relationship between the two companies.

The Almeida Theatre Company, who have been invited to take part in the Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival at the Dramaten (Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden) in Stockholm, will perform a rehearsed reading, script in hand, of Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly, adapted for the stage by Andrew Upton, under the Direction of Michael Attenborough.

Pirates of the Caribbean's Kevin McNally will join the cast of the hit West End comedy, Boeing-Boeing on September 3 for four weeks only to play Parisian playboy Bernard.

Stage and screen star Stockard Channing will return to London stages in the Almeida Theatre Company's revival of the Clifford Odets classic Awake and Sing! this fall

Michael Attenborough, Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre, will direct the European Premiere of African-American playwright Theodore Ward's Big White Fog.

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.