EDDIE IZZARD
JOINS
DAVID MAMET’S
RACE
ON MONDAY, JUNE 21st
The producers of David Mamet’s acclaimed hit play RACEare proud to welcome the internationally acclaimed, two-time Emmy award-winning actor
EDDIE IZZARD for an exclusive nine week limited engagement, beginning performances on Monday, June 21st through Saturday, August 21st.
Izzard is no stranger to David Mamet, having originated the role of “Del” in the 1994 world premiere of Mamet’s The Cryptogram at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
He joins recent additions Golden Globe and SAG award nominee DENNIS HAYSBERT (“24”, “The Unit”), AFTON C. WILLIAMSON (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone) and original cast member RICHARD THOMAS.
Beginning June 21st, RACE’s summer schedule is as follows: Monday at 8pm, Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday at 2pm & 8pm, Thursday at 8pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm
The recently recouped RACE, currently starring Emmy winner James Spader, 2010 Tony Nominee David Alan Grier, acclaimed actress Kerry Washington, and Emmy winner Richard Thomas, continues to play at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th St.). Tickets can be purchased by visiting Telecharge.com or calling 212-239-6200.
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EDDIE IZZARD
EDDIE IZZARD has been hailed as one of the foremost Stand-Ups of his generation. He takes ideas and situations and extrapolates them into bizarre tangential, absurd, and surreal comic narratives. He is the first to admit that he gets well paid for talking total bollocks. (The good pay is because unlike the bollocks most of us talk, it’s funny). Eddie’s musings have earned him countless awards including two Emmys.
Since his first stage appearance on London’s West End in 1993 in the one-man show ‘LIVE AT THE AMBASSADORS’ there have been a succession of sell-out and critically-acclaimed International tours including ‘UNREPEATABLE’ in ‘94, ‘96’s ‘DEFINITE ARTICLE’, ‘GLORIOUS’in ’97 and ‘DRESS TO KILL’in ‘98. 2000 was the year of ‘CIRCLE’ and SEXIE followed in 2003. Eddie’s latest stand up show STRIPPED completed a 34 city tour of the US in 2008 before breaking box office records with a UK, US and European Arena tour which culminated in Madison Square Garden Arena in New York, Jan 2010, making Eddie only the fourth comedian ever to play that venue. This year Eddie performed a series of South African dates in support of Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Charity.
Whilst initially renowned as a comic, Eddie is also now equally respected as a film, theatre and TV actor. His hugely successful FX drama THE RICHES has been critically acclaimed across the world.
Eddie’s stage appearances include Mamet’s ‘THE CRYPTOGRAM’, ‘900 ONEONTA’, the title role in Marlowe’s ‘EDWARD II’, and ‘A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG’ in London and on Broadway, which won him several prestigious awards including a Tony Nomination for Best Actor. His big screen debut was alongside Bob Hoskins and Robin Williams in the 1996 movie ‘SECRET AGENT’. Other highlights in his movie career include ‘THE AVENGERS’ with Sean Connery, ‘VELVET GOLDMINE’ with Ewan McGregor, ‘MY SUPER X GIRLFRIEND’ with Uma Thurman, ‘OCEANS TWELVE’ and OCEANS THIRTEEN with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. ‘ACROSS THE UNIVERSE’ alongside Bono, RAGE with Judi Dench and Jude Law and ‘VALKYRIE’ starring opposite Tom Cruise. Eddie was recently seen in the BBC remake of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
BELIEVE: THE EDDIE IZZARD STORY had its International theatrical release last year. This moving documentary directed by film maker SARAH TOWNSEND documents Eddie’s struggle from a young street performer in London’s Covent Garden during the 1980’s to The Comedian, Actor, Political Activist and Athlete he is now recognized as … In August 2009 Eddie took a month off and ran 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief. To date that run has raised in excess of £1.85 million.
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RACE is the riveting new play by America's foremost playwright, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, November), in which three attorneys, two black and one white, are offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman.
Directed by the playwright, RACE stars Emmy Award winner James Spader (Boston Legal, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), Tony nominee and television star David Alan Grier (A Soldier's Story, In Living Color, Chocolate News), Kerry Washington (Ray, Lakeview Terrace) and Richard Thomas (The Waltons, Democracy, Twelve Angry Men).
RACE began performances on Monday, November 16, 2009 and officially opened on Sunday, December 6, 2009.
RACE features set design by Santo Loquasto, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and costume design by Tom Broecker.
RACE is produced by: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, JK Productions, Peggy Hill & Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Scott M. Delman, Terry Allen Kramer/James L. Nederlander, Swinsky Deitch, Bat-Barry Productions, Ronald Frankel, James Fuld Jr., Kathleen K. Johnson, Terry Schnuck, The Weinstein Company, Marc Frankel and Jay & Cindy Gutterman/Stewart Mercer.
