Rupert Goold News

Rupert Goold's production of 'MacBeth', starring Patrick Stewart, is a frighteningly genius work of art.

Gawn Grainger, Douglas Henshall, Susan Lynch and Joseph Mawle will be joined by LAByrinth Theatre Company member Ron Cephas Jones in the European premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Rupert Goold. The Almeida Theatre and Headlong co-production opens on March 28, 2008 with press night on April 3, and is running until May 10. Designs are by Anthony Ward, with lighting by Howard Harrison and sound and music by Adam Cork.

The nominations were just released for the 2008 Olivier Awards and Haispray is leading the pack with 11 nominations.

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2007 were hosted today by its Chairman Charles Spencer, theatre critic of The Daily Telegraph, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. Top winners included the new production of 'Hairspray,' Patrick Stewart and Rupert Goold of 'Macbeth,' plus new play 'A Disappearing Number,' and actors Charles Dance, Anne-Marie Duff, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

West End's production of Hairspray and Rupert Goold's Macbeth were among the top winners at the 2007 Evening Standard Awards Ceremony, held Tuesday November 27; Richard Wilson hosted.

According to the Daily Mail, stage and screen star Patrick Stewart aims to take his acclaimed Macbeth to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February 2008.

'The Glass Menagerie' is a play about truth and illusion. Rupert Goold's staging at the Apollo theatre manages to reveal truth with appropriate subtlety of direction and paints a pleasantly disguised illusion with atmospheric lighting and a quartet of strong performances

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange, as well as Ed Stoppard, Amanda Hale, and Mark Umbers, star in Rupert Goold's production of The Glass Menagerie, which opened on Feburary 13th at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End.

Ed Stoppard, Amanda Hale, and Mark Umbers will star alongside Jessica Lange in West End production of Tennesse Williams' Glass Menagerie.

Laura Michelle Kelly flies from Cherry Tree Lane to Middle Earth, Frances de la Tour stars in Boeing-Boeing and Lloyd Webber casts Joseph through reality TV

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange will return to the role of Amanda Wingfield in an upcoming West End revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Patrick Stewart will headline two Shakespeare plays--The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra--on the West End

A full program has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival in April