Timothée Chalamet and Eileen Atkins to Star in 4000 Miles in London
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It was announced yesterday that Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) will make his West End debut opposite four-time Tony nominee and three-time Olivier Award winner Eileen Atkins (currently starring on Broadway in The Height of the Storm) in a production of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles. Performances will begin April 6, 2020, and run through May 23, 2020, at the Old Vic in London.
4000 Miles ran off-Broadway in 2011 at the Duke on 42nd Street, in a production directed by Daniel Aukin and starring Gabriel Ebert, Greta Lee, Mary Louise Wilson, and Zoë Winters. The company then had a second off-Broadway engagement at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in 2012. The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Old Vic describes 4000 Miles as follows: "At the beginning of the summer 21-year-old Leo set out from the West Coast cycling across America with his best friend. After weeks of radio silence, no one is more surprised than his 91-year-old grandmother, Vera, when Leo turns up on her Manhattan doorstep in the middle of the night. His life just starting, hers nearly ended, in a faded Greenwich Village apartment their griefs collide."
Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus (now represented on Broadway in his production of A Christmas Carol) will helm the production.
