Broadway BUZZ

Dame Diana Rigg returns to Broadweay in Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady. Her past Broadway credits include Medea (Tony Award), The Misanthrope (Tony, Drama Desk nominations) and Abelard and Heloise (Tony nom.). Off-Broadway, she's been seen in Britannicus and Phaedra. Her London stage work includes Pygmalion (Mrs. Higgins, 2011/Eliza Doolittle, 1974), Honour, Suddenly, Last Summer, Follies, Heartbreak House, Night and Day, Macbeth, Abelard and Heloise, Macbeth, Phaedra, Humble Boy, Mother Courage and her Children, The Misanthrope, Jumpers, Britannicus, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medea, Phaedra, Twelfth Night and King Lear. Her film work includes Breathe, The Honourable Rebel, The Hospital, The Painted Veil, Heidi, Parting Shots, A Good Man in Africa, Snow White, Evil Under the Sun, The Great Muppet Caper, A Little Night Music, Theatre of Blood, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The Assassination Bureau and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Extensive TV credits include PBS Masterpiece’s Victoria (currently), Game of Thrones (three Emmy noms.), Extras, Victoria & Albert (Emmy nom.), The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, Rebecca (Emmy Award), Screen Two (Cable Ace Award), Mother Love (BAFTA Award), Bleak House, Diana and The Avengers. She is the author of "No Turn Unstoned” and “So to the Land.” Owns a chateau in France and is a dry-fly fisherwoman who has caught a 24.5-pound salmon, which she considers her greatest achievement to date. Chancellor of Stirling University (1997–2007). Named a Commander of the British Empire in 1988 and a Dame of the British Empire in 1994.