David Suchet to Star in West End Long Day’s Journey Into Night

David Suchet will star as James Tyrone in a West End revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, according to WhatsOnStage.com. Anthony Page will direct the production, which will play the Apollo Theatre, April 2-August 18, 2012.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama covers a fateful, heart-rending day in August 1912 at the seaside Connecticut home of the Tyrone family. The members of this dysfunctional family confront one another as their blame, resentment, and animosity explodes.

Suchet is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot on television. He appeared on stage last season in the West End revival of All My Sons, with other stage credits including Complicit, The Last Confession, Amadeus, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Oleanna.

Additional casting will be announced at a later date.