Liev Schreiber to Headline The Homecoming on B'way Next Season

Liev Schreiber will star in the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming that is planned for next season, according to The New York Post.

Schreiber was recently announced to headline a summer mounting of Macbeth in Central Park. He won a Tony Award last year for his performance in Glengarry Glen Ross and has also appeared on the Great White Way in In The Summer House and Betrayal. His off-Broadway credits include The Tempest, All for One, Goodnight Desdemona, Hamlet, Escape from Happiness, Othello, Henry V and The Mercy Seat. Schreiber, who was nominated for a 2000 Golden Globe and 2000 Emmy Award for his role as Orson Welles in HBO Television's RKO 281, also has numerous big and small screen credits. His next film, The Omen, will be released in July.

The Homecoming is set at a family gathering in North London. Teddy has brought his wife, Ruth, home to meet her in-laws. But this is not a congenial group. Who will be the winner in the fierce battle for supremacy waged among the attendees?

The Homecoming was first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in the summer of 1965. It has had two Broadway mountings, the first in 1967 when it lasted 324 performances and the second in 1991 in the form of a limited engagement that ran 49 performances.

The Broadway revival of The Homecoming will be produced by Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel, who produced last season's Glengarry Glen Ross.