Ian McShane to Star in The Homecoming Revival in '07

Ian McShane, an award-winning British theatre and film veteran, will star in the upcoming Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, according to Variety.

The revival was to have bowed this season, but was postponed (in deference to the Roundabout Theatre, whose plans for a revival of Pinter's Old Times have fallen through).  It will now open in fall of 2007, with rehearsals to begin in early October next year.  No specific dates or theatre has been announced.

McShane made his first, and so far only, Broadway appearance in 1967's The Promise, in which he co-starred with Ian McKellen and Eileen Atkins.  A theatre veteran in London (with the original production of Loot among his credits), McShane won a Golden Globe Award for playing Al Swearengen in HBO's "Deadwood."  His film credits include Nine Lives, Agent Cody Banks, Sexy Beast and The Fifth Musketeer.

First presented on Broadway in 1967 after a premiere at London's Aldwych Theatre (presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company), The Homecoming concerns Teddy and Ruth, a married couple who come home for a gathering with Teddy's family. Ruth quickly becomes a pawn of the men in the family--or so it seems. The play was also revived on Broadway in 1991.

Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel will produce.