Michael Sheen is set to take the West End stage again in 2010 with his starring role as William Maitland in the upcoming production of Inadmissible Evidence.
Sheen will play the role of a middle aged man who is a solicitor that has come to despise his life and job.
The last time Sheen was on the West End stage was back in 2006 at the Geilgud Theatre after playing the lead role in Frost/Nixon.
Inadmissible Evidence premiered on the London stage in 1964 starring Nicol Williamson who won a Today award for his role as Maitland. After the original staging it went onto Broadway and was made into a film in 1968 starring Eileen Atkins.
The play will begin rehearsal in January and will open sometime later in January although the theatre it will play at has not yet been announced.
Michael Sheen previously has been seen in The Queen and in The Twilight saga. He also played the role of a werewolf in all of the three Underworld film productions.
Sheen originally was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and during his second year won the Laurence Olivier Bursary award for outstanding performances that were consistent.
He first stepped onto the West End stage when he starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Dances? back in 1991 while still in the RADA.
Throughout his career he also won several Olivier Award nominations for Amadeus when he played Mozart, his performance in Look Back in Anger, and Caligula. For Caligula he also won a London Evening Standard Theatre Award and London Critics? Circle Award.
He has also received accolades for his performances in Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, and Peer Gyny. He made his first entrance onto Broadway in 1999 when he reprised his role as Mozart in Amadeus.
