Richard Wilson News

Whats On Stage is reporting that London's Evening Standard newspaper has published the list of nominees for the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the first awards of the UK season.

Sean Mathias will direct Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot which is his first production as Artistic Director of the 2009 Theatre Royal Haymarket Company. Waiting for Godot will tour the UK prior to its opening in London in April.

West End's production of Hairspray and Rupert Goold's Macbeth were among the top winners at the 2007 Evening Standard Awards Ceremony, held Tuesday November 27; Richard Wilson hosted.

PRIMO, starring Antony Sher as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, will extend its run at the Music Box Theatre for one more week, through Sunday, August 14.

John Barrowman has been cast as Prince Charming in a pantomime of Cinderella, which will run at London's New Wimbledon Theatre from December 9th to 23rd

Sir Antony Sher's solo play is adapted from Primo Levi's book of imprisonment in Auschwitz

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

Bill Kenwright and Thelma Holt will bring the acclaimed National Theatre of Great Britain production of PRIMO, starring Antony Sher as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, to Broadway this summer for 32 performances only beginning Friday, July 8 through Sunday, August 7. Opening night for PRIMO, which is based on Levi's memoir Survival in Auschwitz, as adapted for the stage by Antony Sher, and directed by Richard Wilson, is Monday, July 11 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45 Street).