Voted by the U.K.'s The Independent as the greatest stage actor of his generation, Simon Russell Beale has made his mark on plenty of Shakespeare's most well known roles, including Othello's Iago and the title roles in Hamlet and Richard III. Beale has returned to the New York stage (he earned a 2007 Tony Award nod for Tom Stoppard's Jumpers and served as the first King Arthur replacement in Spamalot) to lead the cast of the Atlantic Theater's Bluebird, playing a London taxi driver with an interest in conversing with his passengers. Broadway.com recently chatted with Beale about his own experiences with taxis, working oppossite Jonathan Groff in the West End revival of Deathtrap and his turn in the upcoming Marilyn Monroe-themed film My Week With Marilyn.
Welcome back to New York. What attracted you to doing a show in a small off-Broadway theater?
Small is the operative word. It just came along at the right time. It’s a bit of like when I did Spamalot [on Broadway], which also came along at the right time. I was sitting there in London thinking, “Who wants to do another Shakespeare show?” And then ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Bluebird's Simon Russell Beale On Chatting with Taxi Drivers, Jonathan Groff and Marilyn Monroe
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