In 2002 Elaine Stritch played a sensational season at the Old Vic In London. In 2008 for 12 performances only the legend that is Elaine Stritch returns to London to play Feinsteins at the Shaw Theatre.
With her long-time Musical Director and Collaborator, Rob Bowman,
Elaine Stritch presents an evening of music and comedy tracing her career including landmark roles in Company, The Little Foxes, Bus Stop, A Delicate Balance, Sail Away and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The show received the 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event as well as two Drama Desk awards – Outstanding Solo Performance for Stritch and Outstanding Book of a Musical for Stritch and writer John Lahr.
The show will run Thursday 31 July to Sunday 10 August 2008. Please note there will be no Performance on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th August. For more information and tickets please visit
www.theshawtheatre.com
Elaine Stritch, won a Primetime Emmy Award as an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Colleen Donaghy in the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." Stritch received the award at the Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremony held Saturday, September 8 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Elaine Stritch won a 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance Variety, Music, Program for her telecast solo-show
Elaine Stritch...At Liberty and also won in 1993 for her guest appearance in "Law and Order."
Stritch received a 2002 Drama Desk Award for her acclaimed one-woman Broadway show
Elaine Stritch at Liberty; the show also garnered a Tony for Best Special Theatrical Event. She has received Tony Award nominations for her performances in A Delicate Balance, Bus Stop, Sail Away and Company, in which she originated the role of the sardonic Joanne. Other Broadway credits include Call Me Madam (as the standby for
Ethel Merman),
Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Goldilocks, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Love Letters and Show Boat. On film and TV, she has been seen in Providence, Cocoon: The Return, September, An Unexpected Wife, Small Time Crooks, Autumn in New York, Monster-in-Law, "3rd Rock from the Sun," and "Law and Order," for which she received an Emmy Award nomination.
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