Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio News

Oscar Wilde's much loved play, An Ideal Husband returns to the West End for the first time in over 10 years. Directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Samantha Bond, Elliott Cowan, Alexander Hanson and Rachael Stirling, An Ideal Husband will open at the Vaudeville Theatre for previews from 4 November 2010.

USA Network, the #1 network in all of cable for four years running, will serve up its hottest summer ever! USA is once again your summer destination with all new episodes of seven original series; BURN NOTICE, ROYAL PAINS, WHITE COLLAR, PSYCH, IN PLAIN SIGHT, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT and the launch of its newest 'character' driven series, COVERT AFFAIRS. Fortifying its seasonal programming block, the fourth season of smash hit BURN NOTICE paired with the sophomore season of last summer's #1 show ROYAL PAINS will return this June, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT and IN PLAIN SIGHT are poised to continue their strong performance slots on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10pm, and this July will mark the highly anticipated debut of freshman series COVERT AFFAIRS as well as the return of USA's critically acclaimed favorites WHITE COLLAR and PSYCH.

Producers Aaron Grant, Jana Robbins & Jeremy Handelman have announced that SCOTT PATTERSON has been cast in the lead role of Joe White in WHITE'S LIES, a new comedy by Ben Andron & directed by Bob Cline, which is scheduled to open on April 12, 2010, at New World Stages. Grant, who produced the staged reading in September, 2009, is thrilled to have the former star of "Gilmore Girls" on board as Joe White. Mr. Patterson joins a cast that already includes Peter Scolari, Christy Carlson Romano & Jimmy Ray Bennett.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is set to join the cast of 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent' for its upcoming season. Mastrantonio will play the working-class captain of the show's Major Case Squad, replacing Eric Bogosian. The cast will feature several new members, as four of the current actors, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Julianne Nicholson and Eric Bogosian, have all chosen not to return.

The 55th Annual Evening Standards Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in London Theater, today has released their long list of 2009 nominees. The award ceremony, which will take place on November 23 at the Royal Opera House, will honor some of theater's biggest stars, including Ian McKellen, Kevin Spacey, Sam Mendes, and more. Sponsored by U.K'.s Evening Standard newspaper, with nominees selected by a panel of London theater critics, the shortlist of nominees will be sometime next week.

Onstage now at the Theatre at the Center, a quick drive from Chicago in Munster, Indiana, is a 'Man of La Mancha' that is about as authentic an evocation of the legendary 1960s New York staging as you are ever likely to see.....

Lindsay Posner's outstanding revival of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE starring Ken Stott, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Hayley Atwell will tour the UK in May, following a successful West End run.

Hayley Atwell joins Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a new production of A View from the Bridge which opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from January 22, 2009 with the press night on February 5th. Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, this electrifying and deeply moving play proved to be a milestone in American theatrical history. Lindsay Posner directs.

Upright Cabaret producers/hosts Chris Isaacson and Shane Scheel proudly present Broadway star and Los Angeles native Eden Espinosa in her first solo effort entitled EDEN ESPINOSA - ME to be directed by Broadway & recording star Billy Porter with Ben Toth taking over Music Direction. During the last month of Wicked's run at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, where she is currently starring as Elphaba, Espinosa will take off the green to perform four solo concerts which will feature a different special guest each night. Special guests T.B.A.

Hayley Atwell joins Ken Stott and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in a new production of A View from the Bridge which opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from January 22, 2009 with the press night on February 5th. Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, this electrifying and deeply moving play proved to be a milestone in American theatrical history. Lindsay Posner directs.

Acknowledged as one of the great classics of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge, opens at the Duke of York's Theatre for a limited season from 22 January 2009 with the press night on 5 February.

Alan Cumming got hitched to American boyfriend Grant Shaffer in London.

A visitor walking into the Avatar recording studio in New York City last May was greeted with the most stirring rendition of Stephen Sondheim's 'Too Many Mornings'. The voices of Marin Mazzie and her husband, Jason Danieley, were so exceptionally suited to the music that a new dimension was added to the material.

Frequent co-stars Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell will once again team up for the Encores! production of Kismet, which will open in February of 2006

Closings, Mary Poppins rehearsals and new songs for Bat Boy...