Lincoln Center To Present "CYMBELINE"

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Lincoln Center to Present CYMBELINE!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

“CYMBELINE”

DIRECTED BY MARK LAMOS



FEATURING

JONATHAN CAKE, MICHAEL CERVERIS, JOHN CULLUM,

MARTHA PLIMPTON, PHYLICIA RASHAD



FIRST PERFORMANCE – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1

OPENING NIGHT - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2



AT THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER



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Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will present William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. The production, which will be directed by Mark Lamos, begins performances Thursday, November 1st and opens on Sunday, December 2nd in the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). The cast of 26 will include Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris, John Cullum, Martha Plimpton and Phylicia Rashad. (Additional casting will be announced at a later date.)



One of William Shakespeare’s most unusual and spectacular plays, this late Romance combines comedy, tragedy and history into an epic tale of power and magic - its action sweeping across Britain and Italy, as two warring powers clash until its eventual joyful conclusion. The characters in Cymbeline include a Lear-like monarch (John Cullum), a wicked queen (Phylicia Rashad), an Iago-like villain (Jonathan Cake), a deceived husband (Michael Cerveris), and a heroine, the king’s daughter Imogen, Shakespeare’s last great female role (Martha Plimpton).



Cymbeline will be designed by Tony Award winners Michael Yeargan (sets), Jess Goldstein (costumes), and Brian MacDevitt (lighting). Original music will be by Mel Marvin and sound design will be by Tony Smolenski IV and Walter Trarbach.



Mark Lamos returns to Lincoln Center Theater where he directed LCT’s productions of Edward Albee’s Seascape, Sheridan’s The Rivals, A. R. Gurney’s Big Bill and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. His other Broadway credits include Our Country's Good (Tony nom.), The Deep Blue Sea, and The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm. He has also directed productions for the Metropolitan Opera and City Opera in New York and for Kennedy Center and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.



Cymbeline is Lincoln Center Theater’s 119th production. In addition to Cymbeline Lincoln Center Theater’s 2007-2008 Vivian Beaumont season will include a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, directed by Bartlett Sher, which begins performances on February 28, 2008. This will mark the first Broadway production of the musical since its 1949 Broadway premiere. The Glorious One, a new musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, begins performances in the Mitzi E. Newhouse on October 11. LCT will also be a co-producer of Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘N’ Roll which begins previews on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on October 19.



Cymbeline will be performed Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3 pm. (There is no Saturday matinee on Nov. 3rd.) Tickets priced at $65 to $90 will be available beginning Sunday, September 9, at the Lincoln Center Theater box office, by calling Tele-Charge at (212) 239-6200 or on-line by visiting www.lct.org.



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JONATHAN CAKE LCT: debut. Broadway: Medea (opposite Fiona Shaw) London Theater: Coriolanus (Shakespeare’s Globe), Tennessee Williams’ Baby Doll (Barclays best Actor Award),and for the Royal Shakespeare Company Wallenstein, Tamburlaine, The Odyssey, As You Like It, The Beggar’s Opera. Film: First Knight, The One and Only, Honest, True Blue. TV: Tyrannus in ABC's "Empire," “The American Embassy,” “Noah’s Ark,” “Marriage,” “Out of the Ashes,” “The Government Inspector,” “Rebecca.”



MICHAEL CERVERIS LCT: debut. Broadway: Love/Musik, Sweeney Todd, Assassins, The Who’s Tommy and Titanic. London: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (also Off-Broadway and LA). Off-Broadway: Kent in King Lear, plays by Charles L. Mee, Lanford Wilson, Maria Irene Fornes, Christopher Hampton; The Games with Meredith Monk and Ping Chong (BAM Next Wave); The Apple Tree (Encores!). TV: Sondheim’s “Passion” (Live From Lincoln Center).



JOHN CULLUM LCT: Old Money. Broadway: 110 in the Shade (Tony nom.), On the Twentieth Century (Tony Award), Shenandoah (Tony Award), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Tony nom.), Urinetown (Tony nom), Camelot, 1776, Doubles, All My Sons, Hamlet, Man of La Mancha, Show Boat. Television: Holling on "Northern Exposure,” "ER," "Law & Order: SVU". Film: The Night Listener, The Notorious Bettie Page, Secret Life of Algernon, 1776, Sweet Country, Marie, All the Way Home and Hawaii.



MARTHA PLIMPTON LCT: The Coast of Utopia (Tony nom., Drama Desk Award), subUrbia. Broadway: Shining City, 16 Wounded. Off Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hurly Burly, The False Servant, Hobson’s Choice (Obie Award), Boston Marriage, Pericles, The Haggadah, Runaways, Flesh and Blood. Film and TV include: Marvelous, Hair High (also co-producer), I’m Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, “E.R.”, “Law & Order: SVU” (Emmy nomination), “Law & Order: CI.”



PHYLICIA RASHAD LCT: Bernarda Alba. Broadway: August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Tony nomination), A Raisin in the Sun (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Jelly’s Last Jam, Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, The Wiz, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Off Broadway: Blue, Helen, Everybody’s Ruby, The Story. Regional Theater: Blues for an Alabama Sky, Medea. TV includes: “The Old Settler” (AFI nomination), “Free of Eden,” “False Witness,” “The Cosby Show” (two Emmy Noms.).