Jonathan Pryce to Star in West End Revival of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross

Jonathan Pryce will star in a West End production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, according to Variety. The drama, which will be directed by James Macdonald, is expected to open in October 2007 and run to January 2008. Pryce will play Shelly Levene, an aging real estate salesman who now finds himself struggling to compete with the office's young superstars.

Pryce, a two-time Tony Award winner for his performances in Miss Saigon and Comedians, appeared on Broadway earlier this year in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He also appeared on the Great White Way in Accidental Death of an Anarchist. His most recent London stage appearance was in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? at the Almeida and in the West End.

Pryce portrayed the timid customer James Lingk in the starry 1992 film version of Glengarry Glen Ross. His other film credits include Carrington for which he won a Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award, Evita in which he portrayed Juan Peron, Brazil, Barbarians at the Gate, Tomorrow Never Dies, Stigmata, The Affair of the Necklace, What a Girl Wants, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, De-Lovely and The Brothers Grimm.

Glengarry Glen Ross centers on a competitive group of real estate salesmen who've gotten more than a little desperate during the reign of Reaganomics. The play, which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was revived with a cast led by Alan Alda as Shelly Levene on Broadway in 2005. It won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The producers of that production—Jerry Frankel, Jeffrey Richards and Jam Theatricals—are also behind the London outing. They are joined in the West End by Ron Kastner and Mark Rubinstein.