Laurie Metcalf Joins West End Long Day's Journey Into Night Opposite David Suchet

Tony nominee and Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf will return to the London stage for the first time in more than 10 years to play Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, featuring previously announced star David Suchet, according to OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk.  Directed by Anthony Page, performances begin April 2, 2012, at the Apollo Theatre. No other casting has been announced.

Long Day's Journey Into Night centers on the Tyrones, a dysfunctional family with a drug-addicted mother, penny-pinching father and two troubled sons. The original 1956 Broadway production earned the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play. The epic play has subsequently received four Broadway revivals and was adapted for the screen in 1962, directed by Sidney Lumet and starred Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson. Long Day's Journey was last seen on the West End in 2000 in a revival starring Jessica Lange and Charles Dance.

Metcalf recently appeared in off-Broadway's The Other Place and a revival of A Lie of the Mind, as well as the 2009 Broadway revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs. A Tony Award nominee for November, she has also been seen in My Thing of Love. Off-Broadway credits include Balm in Gilead; Bodies, Rest and Motion and Educating Rita. Best known for her almost ten years on the TV series Roseanne, the actress has also been seen onscreen in Scream 2, Bulworth, Runaway Bride, Malcolm in the Middle, Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives.