Concert & Attractions // The Riot of Spring - Starring Roger Rees ++

Roger Rees is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Some of many RSC productions; Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard 11, Henry V111, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Three Sisters, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Relapse, The Suicide, Plebeians rehearse the Uprising, the title role in Hamlet and Nicholas Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, for which Mr. Rees won the Tony Award, the Olivier Award, and an Emmy TV Nomination for Best Actor.

Also On and Off-Broadway, Mr. Rees starred in Indiscretions, with Kathleen Turner, Eileen Atkins, Cynthia Nixon and Jude Law (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), John Robin Baitz’ The End of the Day (Obie Award), The Rehearsal (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Misanthrope, opposite Uma Thurman (Classic Stage Company), The Uneasy Chair (Playwrights Horizons), Uncle Vanya, with Derek Jacobi and Laura Linney (Brooks Atkinson Theatre) and starred in the premiere of Terrence McNally’s A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center Theatre).

In the West End, Mr. Rees created the starring roles in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and Hapgood, and in his own thriller, Double Double, co-authored with Eric Elice.
Some of Mr. Rees’ movies are: The Ebony Tower ( Opposite  Laurence Olivier), Mel Brooks’: Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Bob Fosse’s: Star 80, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Next Stop Wonderland,  Substance of Fire, If Looks Could Kill,  The Prestige, The Treatment, The Scorpion King, The Emperor’s Club, Garfield:  Tale of Two Kitties, The Pink Panther (with Steve Martin),  Game 6, Peter Greenaway’s: A Life in Suitcases, Julie Taymor’s: Frida, Crazy like a Fox, Going Under, The Prestige, The Invasion (with Nicole Kidman), Happy Tears, and The Narrows to be released shortly. 
Mr. Rees played Dr. Colin Marlow, the “old flame” of resident Christina Yang, on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy; he was Lord John Marbury onNBC’s West Wing, and played Robin Colcord on NBC’s Cheers, he has also appeared in Three Sisters, OZ, My So-Called Life, Cheers, M.A.N.T.I.S, Law and Order, Boston Common and appeared in such television movies as The Crossing, Double Platinum, Titanic, and Liberty.

As a director, Mr. Rees is former associate Artistic Director for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre directing, among other plays, Julius Caesar, Turkey Time and John Bull. In America he directed Red Memories (NY Stage and Film); Mud, River Stone (Playwrights Horizons); The Merry Wives of Windsor, and, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Old Globe Theatre, San Diego); Arms and the Man (Roundabout Theatre Company); Here Lies Jenny (Zipper Theater, Post Street Theater); Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Juniper Tree, Bernstein’s White House Cantata and Kurt Weill’s Firebrand of Florence for the New York Collegiate Chorale; as well as an episode of HBO’s OZ. He recently completed three successful years as the Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival where he directed, The Rivals, The Film Society: starring Cherry Jones; The Late Middle Classes, Anything Goes, Double Double; directed and played Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew opposite Bebe Neuwirth; and, Herringbone, starring B.D. Wong both at the WTF and Mccarter Theater. Mr. Rees’ one man show, What You Will, which he also wrote and directed, received rave reviews at its premiere at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and will play The Old Globe Theatre in the 2009-10 Season.  Recently, Mr. Rees co-directed with Alex Timbers, the world premiere of Rick Elice’s new play, Peter and the Starcatchers, at La Jolla Playhouse in association with Disney Theatrical, which will premiere Off-Broadway in Spring 2011.