Al Pacino Aiming to Return to New York Stage in New David Mamet Play, Will Headline Salome in London

Stage and screen legend Al Pacino is eyeing a return to the New York stage. The Tony and Oscar winner told the Daily Mail that he’d like to appear in a new play, perhaps by David Mamet, in New York before headlining Salome in London in 2016.

Pacino previously starred in concert readings of Salome, first opposite Marisa Tomei at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn in 2002 before the show transferred to Broadway, and then in Los Angeles in 2006 opposite Jessica Chastain. Pacino revealed that the London incarnation will be a full production: “There will be make-up, sets, costumes...and decadence. It will be a whole different thing to what we did in America.”

Pacino won Tony Awards for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, and received an additional nomination for The Merchant of Venice. His other Broadway credits include Glengarry Glen Ross, Hughie, Chinese Coffee, American Buffalo and King Richard III. His many film credits include The Godfather trilogy, Scent of a Woman, Heat, Serpico, Scarface, Angels in America, Insomnia, Any Given Sunday, The Insider and Donnie Brasco.