According to Whatsonstage.com, Tony Award winning actor Robert Lindsay will reprise his role as Aristotle Onassis in Martin Sherman's ONASSIS. It will premiere at the Derby Theater which reopened in 2009 after the closure of Derby Playhouse. ONASSIS will run from September 10-25 before transferring to the West End (no London dates or theater have been announced yet.)
The Almeida Theatre in the U.K. has announced their Spring 2010 lineup of productions and events.
Wendy Kesselman's 'The Black Monk', which ran Off-Broadway from November 30th, 2008 through January 3rd, 2009, featuring Austin Pendleton, Elon Rutberg, Julie Craig, and Scott Robertson - under the direction of Kevin Newbury and musical direction of Chris Berg (with cellist Arthur Cook), will be making an original cast recording on Monday, May 25th, 2009. The album will be produced/engineered by Grammy Award winner John Kilgore. It will be released online in the fall exclusively on iTunes, and a record deal is pending.
South Ark Stage (Rhoda Herrick, Producing Artistic Director) has announced that it will present the world premiere of the new chamber musical The Black Monk, with book, lyrics and music by Wendy Kesselman. Under the direction of Kevin Newbury, the four-member cast features Austin Pendleton as the Monk, Scott Robertson as Igor, Elon Rutberg as Andrei, and Sarah Ziegler as Tanya.
Samuel West will direct Harley Granville Barker's Waste, which runs at the Almeida from 25 September - 15 November 2008, with press night on 2 October. Designs are by Peter McKintosh with lighting by Guy Hoare and sound by John Leonard.
Film actress Elizabeth McGovern will be coming the UK Stage in the role of Jackie Kennedy in the new play Aristo by Bent author Martin Sherman.
The Gate Theatre has announced its upcoming season. Plays include Hedda, a new translation, of Hedda Gabler, State of Emergency by Falk Richter, Unbroken by Alexandra Wood, and I Am Fallingby Jenny Worton.
Romeo and Juliet is being presented through October 14th as part of the Complete Works Festival of Shakespeare plays in Stratford-Upon-Avon
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.
The Royal Shakespeare Company will stage all 37 of the Bard's plays in Stratford-upon-Avon beginning next spring, in addition to new works, musical adaptations, readings of sonnets, and much more
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