Mark Rylance Wins Best Actor In A Play!

Mark Rylance has won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Actor In A Play for his performance in 'Boeing-Boeing'

Acclaimed British stage star Mark Rylance makes his Broadway debut in Boeing-Boeing, reprising the performance that earned him Best Actor nominations from both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards. He served as Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre for 10 years where he appeared in the title roles of Henry V and Hamlet as well as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra and Olivia in Twelfth Night. In the West End he won an Olivier Award as Best Actor for Benedict in Much Ado about Nothing directed by Matthew Warchus. He is also a BAFTA Award winner, winning the prestigious best actor award for the TV production of "The Government Inspector."

Boeing-Boeing opened on May 4th, at the Longacre Theatre.  In addition to Rylance Boeing- Boeing stars Christine Baranski, Bradley Whitford, Gina Gershon, Mary McCormack, and Kathryn Hahn in the Broadway production of the London smash Boeing-Boeing, Marc Camoletti's classic sixties comedy of errors directed by Matthew Warchus.

This production of Boeing-Boeing was hailed as wholly reinventing the play when it opened to ecstatic reviews at London's Comedy Theatre in February 2007. The London production of Boeing-Boeing received Olivier Award nominations for Best Revival and Best Actor in a Play (Mark Rylance) and an Evening Standard Award nomination for Rylance.

"In Boeing-Boeing, an architect living in Paris (Whitford) has been successfully juggling three flight attendant fiancées (Gershon, Hahn and McCormack) with his housekeeper (Baranski) reluctantly playing romantic air-traffic controller as they fly in and out of his swank bachelor pad. But when an old school pal (Rylance) visits, things get rather turbulent. Schedules change, flights are delayed and chaos ensues in this whirl of mayhem and matchmaking," describe press notes.

Boeing-Boeing features a design by Rob Howell, lighting by Hugh Vanstone, original music by Claire Van Kampen, sound by Simon Baker, curtain call by Kathleen Marshall, translation by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans and is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions/Bob Boyett, Act Productions/Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert G. Bartner, The Weinstein Company and The Araca Group.

For tickets and information, visit www.Telecharge.com or www.BoeingOnBroadway.com

Photo Credit Linda Lenzi