Flockhart Lines Up Christie Before House???

Today's Daily Mail reports that Ally McBeal's Calista Flockhart will at last be making her West End debut early in the new year. Flockhart was originally due to tread the boards at the Shaftesbury Theatre more than two years ago in Philip Barry's 1939 comedy The Philadelphia Story, but that revival was indefinitely postponed, supposedly because of foot-and-mouth and general election timing concerns (See News, 18 Apr 2001). Since then, the American actress' name has been regularly mentioned with that play as well as All About Eve and Ibsen's A Doll's House. However, it looks now like the debut vehicle will be Eugene O'Neill's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Christie. Directed by Royal Court artistic director Ian Rickson and produced by Sonia Friedman, the new production is slated for an opening in February or March. And, all going to plan, that won't be the last we'll see of this Hollywood star. According to director Laurence Boswell, Flockhart will follow Anna Christie later next year with his own production of the already mooted Ibsen, as part of his newly formed production company (See The Goss, 24 Oct & 4 Sep 2003).

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