Monday, October 12, 2009
Theater
Lynn Redgrave Still Set for One-Woman Show Despite Illness
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Lynn Redgrave (pictured) plans to begin preview performances of a new one-woman show Off-Broadway at
Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center stage later this week, despite undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness that will require her to read from a script for the entire run of the show. According to
Variety, performances of
Nightingale will go ahead as planned, with opening night slated for November 3. The new play mixes autobiographic stories about Redgrave's family history and reminiscences about her grandmother's life.
Redgrave has been treated for cancer in the past, though the exact nature of this current illness, for which she's being treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is unknown. True to her reputation as a strong-willed and dedicated performer, though, she apparently insisted that the show go on.
Tags: nyc theater, off-broadway, Lynn Redgrave, Manhattan Theatre Club, one-woman show, cancer, New York City Center
