Donmar Season Features 2006 Tony Winner McDiarmid, Marber and Mamet

The Donmar Warehouse has announced its forthcoming slate of productions. In addition to the previously announced Frost/Nixon, the season includes Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho, recent Tony winner Ian McDiarmid in Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman in a new version by David Eldridge and David Mamet's The Cryptogram.

Donmar Artistic Director Michael Grandage, fresh from directing the West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita, will direct three of the four productions, starting with the world premiere of Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon, which stars Frank Langella and Michael Sheen opening August 21 following previews from August 10.

For Don Juan in Soho, Grandage teams up again with playwright Marber, who wrote After Miss Julie, which the director helmed at the Donmar in 2003. Marber has adapted Moliere's 17th century classic Don Juan, in a version that relocates this story of an amoral hedonist to modern day London neighborhood. It will open on December 6 following previews from November 30 for a run to February 10, 2007.

Eldridge, who previously adapted Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Donmar that Grandage directed there, returns to now provide a new version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, with the title role taken by McDiarmid. The actor now on Broadway in Faith Healer is best known for his film roles in the Star Wars series, as well as a former artistic director of the Almeida. He has previously worked with Grandage on Henry IV at the Donmar as well as The Jew of Malta and The Doctor's Dilemma, both at the Almeida. John Gabriel Borkman will open on February 20 following previews from February 15 for a run to April 14.

Also announced is a new production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram, first seen in the West End in 1994 at the New Ambassadors, that Josie Rourke will direct to open on October 17 following previews from October 12, for a run to November 25. Rourke has previously directed World Music and Frame 312 at the Donmar, and her work as also been seen at the RSC, at Sheffield's Crucible and the Royal Court.

The Donmar is currently home to a revival of John Mortimer's A Voyage Around My Father, which is running to August 5.