Christina Cole, Jennifer Mudge and Lloyd Owen Join Matthew Perry in THE END OF LONGING in London

FRIENDS star Matthew Perry has found his fellow "lost souls" for the premiere of his new play THE END OF LONGING at the Playhouse Theatre in London on February 2.

According to the The Daily Mail, Perry will be joined onstage by Broadway vet Jennifer Mudge and UK stars Christina Cole and Lloyd Owen.

This fast paced, and bittersweet comic new play, will be directed by the critically acclaimed and award-winning director Lindsay Posner (SPEED-THE-PLOW, OTHER DESERT CITIES), reuniting he and Perry following their first West End collaboration on SEXUAL PERVERSITY in Chicago at the Comedy Theatre in 2003.

Meet Jack, Stephanie, Joseph and Stevie: four lost souls, entering their forties and searching for meaning. After sharing one raucous night together in a downtown Los Angeles bar, their lives become irreversibly entwined in a rollercoaster journey that forces them to confront the darker sides of their relationships. A sharply written and hilarious dark comedy, THE END OF LONGING will make you realise that broken people don't need to stay broken.

Mudge most recently appeared off-Broadway in OF GOOD STOCK at Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as in Roundabout's INTO THE WOODS, MCC's DON'T GO GENTLE, and FAULT LINES, DUTCHMAN and THE STENDHAL SYNDROME. The actress last starred on Broadway in 2014's ROCKY, and before that, THE PHILANTHROPIST and RECKLESS.

Among Cole's theatre credits are THE LIGHTNING PLAY at the Almeida, THE TEMPEST at Pegasus and ROMEO AND JULIET at Theatr Clwyd. Her first lead role was playing 'Cassie Hughes' in the TV series HEX. She later appeared in the BBC miniseries JANE EYRE, the movie WHAT A GIRL WANTS, the James Bond film CASINO ROYALE, the films JUPITER ASCENDING, MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY, LOST IN AUSTEN and SURVIVING EVIL, and on the small screen in SUITS and THE BLACKLIST.

Owen most recently appeared in the West End in THE BODYGUARD. Among his past theatre credits are PAUL at the Cottesloe, CLOUDS in Cambridge, IPHIGENIA and EDWARD II at the Crucible, THE YORK REALIST at the Royal Court, JULIUS CAESAR AT the Young Vic, THE WAY OF THE WORLD at the Royal Exchange, MORPHIC RESONANCE and OUR BOYS at Donmar, CLOSER at the Lyric in London, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at the Almeida, HENRY VI, PART 3 at the RSC and many more.