Michael Attenborough News

Directed by Indhu Rubasingham and performed by Holly Aird, Cavan Clerkin, Brendan Coyle, Amanda Drew, John Marquez and Javone Prince, Chain Play II will be performed for one night only on 29 February 2008 at 7.30pm.

Harold Pinter's The Homecoming began at the Almeida Theatre in London on January 21 and will officially open February 7 with performances booked through March 22.

The awakening of members of a Jewish family in 1930s New York serves to represent the awakening of the American nation to a world of social change in Clifford Odets' ground-breaking drama, 'Awake and Sing'. Michael Attenborough's revival at the Almeida theatre recreates the atmosphere of this classic American drama with a vivid sense of panache and punch.

Full casting has been announced for Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Michael Attenborough's production of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!,

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 will direct Stockard Channing in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!.

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

Almeida will host its first ever Chain Play for one night only, Friday, March 23, as the theatre's primary 2007 fundraising event.

Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Matthew Marsh will star in two upcoming plays at London's Almeida Theatre

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.

European premieres of David Mamet's Romance and Sam Shepherd's The Late Henry Moss feature in the Almeida's 2005/6 season

Billy Elliot gets a big London welcome, Julia goes back to Hollywood and it's a Damning end for a new musical