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The Roundabout's Constant Wife Extends Through August 21

NEWS July 20, 2005 | 1:04PM

The Roundabout Theatre Company is extending its production of W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife by one week. The production is now set to run at the American Airlines through August 21.

The Constant Wife is a social comedy of marital maneuvers in 1920s upper class London. Constance Middleton Kate Burton discovers that her husband Michael Cumpsty is having ...

Lynn Redgrave

Q&A July 11, 2005 | 3:29PM

Lynn Redgrave's droll performance as Mrs. Culver, the veil-sporting, epigram-happy matriarch of The Constant Wife, inspired one critic to call the two-time Tony nominee "a Lady Bracknell-in-waiting." The waiting is just about over: Redgrave will play the iconic character, a role she's coveted for years, in a Los Angeles production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being ... Read More...

Were Critics Dazzled by the Roundabout's The Constant Wife?

NEWS June 17, 2005 | 11:53AM

The second offering of the new season, W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, starring Kate Burton and Lynn Redgrave, had its official bow at the American Airlines Theatre on June 16. Did critics think the Roundabout Theatre Company production of the play, directed by Mark Brokaw, was constantly entertaining?

Here is a sampling of what they had to say ...

Full Cast Announced for Roundabout's Constant Wife

NEWS April 14, 2005 | 10:59AM

Democracy co-stars Michael Cumpsty and John Dossett will star alongside Kate Burton and Lynn Redgrave in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife. The cast will also include Enid Graham, Kathryn Meisle, Denis Homes, John Ellison Conlee and Kathleen McNenney.

Cumpsty and Dossett are currently appearing together in Democracy, which closes on April 17 ...

Kate Burton to Star in the Roundabout's The Constant Wife

NEWS March 9, 2005 | 6:18PM

Kate Burton is set to star in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife. The mounting, directed by Mark Brokaw, is scheduled to begin performances at the American Airlines Theatre on May 27.

Burton had the distinction of earning two 2002 Tony nominations for her work in Hedda Gabler and The Elephant Man. Her ...

Roundabout Offers The Constant Wife Instead of Passion Play

NEWS February 24, 2005 | 1:38PM

The Roundabout Theatre Company production of Passion Play, which had been delayed until May because of the extension of Twelve Angry Men, is not happening then after all. Instead of the Peter Nichols piece, the summer offering at the American Airlines Theatre will be W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, according to a production spokesperson. No reason was given ... Read More...