'The Constant Wife': Lynn Redgrave joins cast

Lynn Redgrave will return to Broadway as 'Mrs. Culver,' with Kate Burton as 'Constance Middleton' in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham social comedy The Constant Wife.

Directed by Mark Brokaw at the American Airlines Theatre, The Constant Wife begins previews on the 27 May 2005 and opens officially on the 16 Jun 2005. This is a limited engagement through to the 7 Aug 2005.

Tony, Oscar and Emmy nominated and Golden Globe, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award-winning Lynn Redgrave was last on Broadway a decade ago. She is a founding member of The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.

Additional casting will be announced shortly.

The design team for The Constant Wife includes: Alan Moyer (sets), Michael Krass (costumes), Mary Louise Geiger (lights) and David van Tieghem (Sound Design).

The Constant Wife is a social comedy of marital maneuvers in 1920s upper-class London. Constance Middleton discovers that her husband is having an affair with her best friend. Rather than humiliating herself and others, she denies the affair, defends the two, and sets about turning bad luck, unfaithful friends, local gossip and a broken heart to her own advantage.

The Broadway premiere of The Constant Wife began performances at Maxine Elliott�s Theatre on the 29 Nov 1926. The last Broadway production on Broadway began performances at the Shubert Theatre on the 14 Apr 1975.

Playwright W. Sumerset Maugham's other plays include 'Lady Frederick', 'Landed Gentry', 'The Land of Promise', 'The Sacred Flame' , 'Our Betters ', 'East of Suez', 'The Unattainable', 'The Bread-Winner', 'For Services Rendered'.

Mark Brokaw (Director) recently directed 'Reckless' (MTC), which starred Mary-Louise Parker, at the Biltmore in 2004.