Michael Blakemore News

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Marking the 60th annual presentation of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, XM Satellite Radio will launch a four week series of encore episodes of 'Downstage Center,' featuring interviews with Tony Award-winners

Four hit West End productions--Embers, Whistle Down the Wind, The Rat Pack--Live From Las Vegas and The Producers--have extended their runs

Embers, Christopher Hampton's new play starring Jeremy Irons, opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End on March 1st

On February 15th, Christopher Hampton's play Embers, starring Jeremy Irons, will open in London

Shakespearean icons such as Laurence Olivier and Judi Dench will be among the actors featured in the RSC's new CD set The Essential Shakespeare--Live

I Am My Own Wife comes to London as part of worldwide tour, Jeremy Irons and Woody Harrelson return to the West End and the Royal Court unveils its 50th Anniversary plans.

Jeremy Irons will make his long-awaited return to the London stage in Embers, a new play by Christopher Hampton and directed by Michael Blakemore that will open on March 1st, 2006

MICHAEL BLAKEMORE will be the guest on THEATER TALK premiering Friday, September 9 at 12:30 AM on Thirteen.

Producer Marty Richards is considering putting Cy Coleman's 1997 show The Life on the big screen

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents Kate Burton as 'Constance Middleton', Michael Cumpsty as 'John Middleton', John Dossett as 'Bernard Kersal' and Lynn Redgrave as 'Mrs. Culver' in the new Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham social comedy The Constant Wife, directed by Mark Brokaw at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces Lynn Redgrave will return to Broadway as 'Mrs. Culver,' with Kate Burton as 'Constance Middleton' in the new Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham social comedy The Constant Wife.