Paul Gross Joins Kim Cattrall in Pre-Broadway PRIVATE LIVES in Toronto this Fall

Noel Coward's Private Lives, which played the West End's Vaudeville Theatre for a ten week season beginning in February 2010 starring Kim Cattrell and Matthew Macfadyen, will travel across the pond and open at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in September in a Mirvish production.  Cattrall will also star in this production, which reportedly has an eye for Broadway.  She will be joned in Toronto by Paul Gross. Richard Eyre will continue on as director.

Glamorous, rich and reckless, Elyot and Amanda have been divorced from each other for five years in Private Lives. Now both are honeymooning with their new spouses in the South of France. When by chance they meet again across adjoining hotel balconies, their insatiable feelings for each other are immediately rekindled. Without a care for scandal, new partners or memories of what drove them apart in the first place, they hurl themselves headlong into love and lust.

Kim Cattrall has had an extensive acting career that spans film, stage and television. She is the winner of a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and received 5 Emmy Award nominations for her role as femme-fatale Samantha Jones in Sex and the City. She is currently filming Sex and the City 2. Her films include the upcoming Roman Polanski political thriller The Ghost, and Meeting Monica Valour. Other film credits include Porky's, Police Academy, Bonfire of the Vanities, Star Trek VI, John Carpenter's cult classic Big Trouble in Little China , Mannequin and The Tiger's Tail. She was also seen in the TV movie My Boy Jack, opposite Daniel Radcliffe. Her West End credits include Whose Life Is It, Anyway? and The Cryptogram. An acclaimed writer, Kim has also written several books, including Sexual Intelligence which was a National Best Seller, Being a Girl: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Teenage Life; and Satisfaction: The Art of the Female org*sm, a New York Times best seller. Born in Liverpool, she was recently the subject of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?

Paul Gross is the creator, writer, director and star of Men with Brooms and Passchendaele.  He is the winner of two Canadian Gemini Awards for his participation in the Canadian TV series, Slings & Arrows. He has appeared in the Stratford Upon Avon Festival, and has performed with Centrestage Co, Manitoba Theatre Center and more in Canada. He is also an accomplished recording artist.

Director of The National Theatre from 1988-1997, Richard Eyre has won five Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, three Critics' Circle Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild. His numerous acclaimed theatre productions range from Guys and Dolls and Mary Poppins to works by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, David Hare and Alan Bennett. He won the 1988 BAFTA Award for Best Director for the BBC production Tumbledown and his film work includes The Ploughman's Lunch, Iris, Stage Beauty and Notes on a Scandal.

For tickets and more information, visit www.mirvish.com.