Olivier Award Winner Matthew Kelly to Star in John Doyle's UK Amadeus Revival

Olivier Award-winning actor Matthew Kelly will star as Salieri, the Austrian court composer consumed by jealousy for the young musical genius of Mozart, in John Doyle's staging of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus at Wilton's Music Hall in London. The show, which will begin previews on September 14 and open on September 19, will follow Doyle's now trademark style of featuring a cast of actor-musicians to simultaneously bring to life both the play's characters and the timeless Mozart music at the heart of the story.

Kelly, who returns to the London stage for the first time since he won his award for playing Lennie in Of Mice and Men in 2003, has since appeared on TV in the crime thriller Cold Bold and in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House, as well as playing Malvolio in a touring production of Twelfth Night.

Salieri was played in Peter Hall's original National Theatre production in 1979 by Paul Scofield, and subsequently taken on Broadway by Ian McKellen in a recreation of Hall's production in 1980. The play was last seen in London in 1998, when Hall revived it in a new production at the Old Vic, which then transferred to Broadway in 1999.

The cast of Doyle's new production features Jonathan Broadbent as Mozart and Jess Murphy as Constanze, as well as Eamonn O'Dwyer, Sebastian Bates, Sam Kenyon, Philip Battley, Harry Napier, Michael Howcroft, Susannah Van Den Berg, Elisa Boyd, Sioned Saunders, Michael George Moore, Benedict James and Juliet Leighton-Jones.

Produced by Adam Spiegel Productions, whose production of The Mysteries from South Africa also began its life at Wilton's Music Hall before transferring to the West End in 2002, Amadeus is booking at Wilton's through October 14.