WILL MAKE HER LONG-AWAITED RETURN TO BROADWAY ALONGSIDE THREE TIME EMMY AWARD WINNER AND CURRENT TONY AWARD NOMINEE LAURIE METCALF IN THE BROADWAY PREMIERE OF
EDWARD ALBEE’S
PULITZER PRIZE WINNING MASTERPIECE
“THREE TALL WOMEN”
New York, NY – Producer Scott Rudin has announced that two-time Academy Award winning British actress Glenda Jackson and three-time Emmy Award winner and 2017 Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf will star in the Broadway premiere of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Three Tall Women next spring, in a production directed by two-time Tony Award®-winner Joe Mantello. Beginning preview performances on Tuesday. February 27, 2018, Three Tall Women will have an official opening night on Thursday, March 29.
This will mark 81 year old Ms. Jackson’s long-awaited return to Broadway after a 30-year absence, which comes on the heels of her historic, sold-out run in King Lear in London. Her first Oscar came in 1970 with Ken Russell’s film Women in Love. From there, she went on to star in film classics such as Sunday Bloody Sunday and A Touch of Class, for which she was awarded her second Academy Award In 1971, Ms. Jackson starred as Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC serial Elizabeth R, a role for which she was awarded her two Primetime Emmy Awards. Glenda Jackson began her career on the stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She made her Broadway debut in 1965 in The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, and went on to star on Broadway in Rose (1981), Strange Interlude (1985), and Macbeth (1988). She has received a Tony Award nomination for every one of her Broadway performances. Most recently, she caused an international sensation in the title role in the Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Old Vic in 2016, for which she received an Olivier nomination and a Critics Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance. In addition to her legendary acting career, Ms. Jackson spent 23 years as a Member of Parliament.
Ms. Metcalf is currently starring on Broadway in A Doll’s House, Part 2 as Nora Helmer—a role that has earned her critical raves and a Tony Award nomination. She is an original member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Including her current nomination for A Doll’s House, Part 2, Ms. Metcalf has been nominated for four Tony Awards (November, The Other Place, and Misery). She received three Emmy Awards for her work on the television series “Roseanne.” Her film roles include Desperately Seeking Susan, Leaving Las Vegas, Uncle Buck, JFK, Internal Affairs, and the Toy Story series.
Hailed as “essential viewing” by Ben Brantley of the New York Times when it made its New York premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in 1994, Three Tall Women is a beautifully-wrought portrait of a woman in life’s final act and Edward’s Albee’s most personal work. In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1994, it also received the New York Drama Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Play.
With rehearsals well under way ahead of the first preview performance on Friday 24th March, take a look behind the scenes …
Archie Madekwe ‘Billy’
Damian Lewis ‘Martin’
Jason Hughes ‘Ross’
Sophie Okonedo ‘Stevie’
Damian Lewis ‘Martin’
Producer – Ian Rickson
| Photography by Johan Persson | Click on an image for full size |
Ian Rickson’s production of Albee’s Tony Award®-winning late masterpiece will play at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a first preview on 24 March and opening night on 5 April.
Albee’s darkly comic play about a family in crisis will run for a strictly limited 12 week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 24 March to 24 June 2017.
In Ian Rickson’s production, a husband and successful New York architect with everything to lose must confess to his wife and son that he is having an affair and face the dizzying, explosive consequences. Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo play husband and wife Martin and Stevie, joined by Jason Hughes as Martin’s oldest friend Ross and newcomer Archie Madekwe as their son Billy.
The Olivier and Tony Award®-winning creative team includes Rae Smith (set and costume design), Neil Austin (lighting design) and Greg Clarke (sound design), with original music by PJ Harvey.
