Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter Headed to Broadway in Mary Stuart

The hit West End revival of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, starring Tony Award winner Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter, is heading to Broadway, transferring to a Shubert theater in the Spring of 2009. The Donmar Warehouse production, helmed by Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd with new text by Peter Oswald, will announce additional casting, creative team and dates shortly.

"I am thrilled we are bringing our work to Broadway again,” Donmar Artistic Director Michael Grandage said about the transfer. “After the success of Frost/Nixon last year, I am particularly delighted that American audiences will now get to experience one of the Donmar's great classical productions."

Written by Schiller in 1800, Mary Stuart tells of the extraordinary relationship between England's Elizabeth I Walter and her rival cousin, Mary Queen of Scots McTeer. The show made its Broadway debut at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on February 26, 1900, running in repertory with Twelfth Night, Marie Antoinette and Macbeth, among others. Mary Stuart, starring Salome Jens and Nancy Marchand, was revived at Vivian Beaumont Theatre on November 12, 1971, playing 44 performances before closing on December 18 of the same year. On July 14, 2005, the Donmar Warehouse's revival opened in London to critical acclaim, transferring to the West End's Apollo Theatre on October 7 and enjoying a sold-out run through January 14, 2006.

McTeer is best known for her Tony and Drama Desk Award winning turning in 1997's A Doll's House, which, like Mary Stuart, was a West End transfer production. Her London theatrical credits include Duchess of Malfi, Uncle Vanya, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Storm with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Theatre and The Doll's House. Film credits included Tumbleweeds, Tideland and Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It.

Walter made her Broadway debut in 1983 in the RSC's All's Well That Ends Well. Her extensive UK theater resume includes Dinner and Arcadia with the National Theatre, The Hollow Crown, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline and Three Sisters with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Seagull, Hamlet and The Castle. Film credits include Atonement, Babel, Bright Young Things, Sense & Sensibility and Reflections.

Phyllida Lloyd is best known on the Rialto for her direction of Mamma Mia! and for the feature film version of the hit musical. Previous work for the Donmar includes her award-winning production of Boston Marriage and The Threepenny Opera. She most recently directed Wild East for the Royal Court, where she has also directed Six Degrees of Separation and Hysteria.