Wolf Hall plays to move to Broadway

26 September 2014 Last updated at 11:03 Ben Miles (left) and Nathaniel Parker play Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII The RSC’s stage adaptations of Dame Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are to move to Broadway.

The original cast, which includes Ben Miles and Nathanial Parker, are expected to appear in the shows, to be renamed Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2.

The plays are based on Dame Hilary’s Booker Prize-winning fictional accounts of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII.

The Broadway productions will open at the Winter Garden Theater next March.

The plays were first staged at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon and are on at the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End until Saturday 4 October.

The company of more than 20 actors is headed by Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell, Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn and Nathaniel Parker as Henry VIII.

A BBC adaptation of the books is due to be broadcast next year, starring Homeland actor Damian Lewis as the monarch opposite Mark Rylance as Cromwell.

The cast for the six-part mini-series will also include Mark Gatiss and Jonathan Pryce.

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Wolf Hall plays to move to Broadway

Washington in Broadway return

31 July 2013 Last updated at 12:33 ET Washington won a Tony Award in 2010 for his portrayal of Troy Maxson in Fences Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington is to return to Broadway in a new revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun.

Washington’s last stage role was in August Wilson’s play, Fences, for which he won a Tony Award in 2010.

He said previews for the play will begin in March next year.

“I’m trying to keep up with my wife,” Washington, 58, said at the premiere of his latest film, 2 Guns. “My wife has been doing a lot more theatre than me.”

Accompanied by his wife, Pauletta, at the premiere, Washington said the couple were heading to North Carolina for the National Black Theatre Festival, where Pearson is starring in the award-winning Power Play.

“I’m looking forward to one day singing,” Washington said to laughter from his wife.

“See? I just wanted to get something out of her. She knows I can’t sing. But she can sing.

“I can sing. I can sing … in the shower,” he added.

Washington did not reveal which role he will play in A Raisin in the Sun.

The actor, who has previously described theatre as his first love, performed in a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III in 1990, subsequently playing Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway in 2005.

He won a best actor Tony Award for his portrayal of Troy Maxson in the first Broadway revival of Fences in 2010.

This year, the play was revived by Theatre Royal Bath and is currently showing in London’s West End with Lenny Henry in the role of Troy Maxson.

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Washington in Broadway return