Concerts & Attractions // Roger Rees ++: What You Will

International bookings only (outside the US)

Roger Rees’s What You Will has been described as a hysterical (and somewhat historical) 90-minute gallop through all things Shakespearean.  Rees presents the greatest soliloquies ever written, along with side-splitting accounts of some of the funniest disasters ever perpetrated on the Shakespearean stage. Romeo, Juliet’s foolish Nurse, gory Macbeth, Hamlet, the oh-so-tragic Richard II, and even Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Noel Coward, and Stevie Wonder make appearances in what has been hailed as the “the funniest, smartest, most delightful show you’ll see” (San Francisco Examiner).  Rees’s performance has also been called “beguiling” and “delightful” (San Francisco Chronicle), dubbed to be “a good night at the theater—entertaining, inspiring, and thought-provoking” (Kansas City Star). 

 Roger Rees received international acclaim, receiving both Olivier and Tony Awards for his portrayal of the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. In addition to roles for the stage (he spent 22 years as a company member with the Royal Shakespeare Company), Rees’ illustrious career includes many roles in film (The Prestige, The Pink Panther, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Frida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and television. American television audiences know him best as the dashing English tycoon Robin Colcord on Cheers, British Ambassador Lord John Marbury in The West Wing, and Dr. Colin Marlow on Grey’s Anatomy.  Additionally, Rees is an accomplished playwright and stage director.

Rees will play What You Will at his alma mater, the legendary Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), on December 14 and 15, 2010 in Stratford-upon-Avon.