Roger Rees Bringing One-Man Shakespearean Show What You Will to the West End

Tony Award winner Roger Rees is set to bring his one-man Shakespeare show What You Will to the West End, according to The Daily Mail. The production will play a limited engagement at the Apollo Theatre September 18 through October 6.

What You Will, a 90-minute voyage into all things William Shakespeare, is interwoven with the fun, heartbreak, triumphs, jokes and celebrated mishaps that Rees, and every other actor that ever trod the boards, have encountered when coming face to face with the Bard of Avon. What You Will first ran in 2007 at Washington’s Folger Theatre and had a brief run in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2010.

Rees earned a Tony for playing the title role in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and received a nomination for Indiscretions. Most recently Rees received a Tony nod for Best Direction for Peter and the Starcatcher. On TV, he played Robin Colcord opposite Bebe Neuwirth's Lilith Sternin Crane on Cheers. On stage, he directed Neuwirth in the Kurt Weill revue Here Lies Jenny, and they co-starred in The Taming of the Shrew at Williamstown Theater Festival, an L.A. production of Cabaret Verboten and on Broadway in The Addams Family. Rees' other Broadway credits include Uncle Vanya, The Rehearsal, The Red Shoes and London Assurance. Off-Broadway, he starred in the musical A Man of No Importance and The End of the Day.