Something wicked this way comes....

I am taking my Macbeth to Broadway!

Direct from acclaimed, sold-out engagements at the National Theatre of Scotland and the Lincoln Center Festival, Tony and Olivier Award winner ("Cabaret") and two-time Emmy nominee ("The Good Wife") Alan Cumming returns to Broadway this spring in a thrilling one-man interpretation of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedy, MACBETH.
Produced by Ken Davenport, MACBETH will play a strictly limited 73-performance engagement at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street).
Preview performances begin on Sunday, April 7 (7 p.m.) with an official Opening Night on Sunday, April 21 (6 p.m.). The Broadway engagement will conclude on Sunday, June 30.
Tickets are on sale now. Visit Telecharge.com or call 212-239-6200.

A tour-de-force performance directed by Tony Award winner John Tiffany ("Once") and Andrew Goldberg ("The Bomb-itty of Errors"), the National Theatre of Scotland's MACBETH is set in a clinical room deep within a dark psychiatric unit. Cumming is the lone patient, reliving the infamous story and inhabiting each role himself.
Closed circuit television cameras watch the patient's eve

ry move as the walls of the psychiatric ward come to life in a visually stunning multi-media theatrical experience of Shakespeare's notorious tale of desire, ambition and the supernatural.
"Performing MACBETH last year was the most challenging and fulfilling experience of my career by far, and so I am both honoured and daunted to do it again in my adopted hometown of New York City," said Alan Cumming. "I'm also proud of the fact that the National Theatre of Scotland is directly funded by the Scottish government and I cannot think of a better way to trumpet Scotland and its commitment to the arts than being a Scotsman doing his National Theatre's production of the Scottish play on the Great White Way."

You can buy your tickets here

Amazing celebrity auction!!!

Click on these links below to take you to the Ebay pages for these amazing celebrity auction items that my friends have donated so we can raise some cash for good causes and social change.  And keep coming back and chcking cos we are putting up more items over the next few days..

Ingrid Bergman's dress recently reworked by designer Prabal Gurung and worn by her grand-daughter Elettra Wiedmann! Legendary, people!

Neil Patrick Harris' suit and grooming products and How I Met Your Mother books

Caroline Kennedy autobiography with personalised message!

Billy Connolly's stripey suit that he wore in his legendary 1985 Albert Hall Conert. This is the Big Yin!

Kate Pierson from the B52s will sing your outgoing voicemail message!

The Corrections: signed copy of the TV pilot script

Anne Hathway will sing to you!  Anne will call you up on your birthday (or day of your choice) and sing to you and have a chat

 

Co-host Lance Bass' Sirius XM radio show! Yes, Lance and YOU in the studio, shooting the breeze on air!

A knitted Princess Leia doll, signed by Carrie Fisher

A  Princess Leia apron, signed by Carrie Fisher

A Pee Wee Herman playbill from the Broadway run of Pee wee's Playhouse, signed by Paul Reubens

Parker Posey voicemail message.  Parker will record your outgoing message!

Sandra bernhard voicemail message.  Sandra will record your outgoing message!

Cynthia Nixon voicemail message. Cynthia will record your outgoing message!

Special edition X Men Zip Zap car signed by Hugh Jackman!

A signed portrait of Liza Minnelli by Kevin Tachman, taken during the show we did together this summer on Fire Island

A Christian Siriano dress and a Spring/Summer lookbook signed by Christian himself

Two tickets to Rock of Ages on Broadway

A signed script of The Good Wife  The pilot episode of the CBS drama, signed by the cast.

A signed Sister Act photo of Kathy Najimy

A weekend at the OUT Hotel 2 nights in NYC's newest, gayest hotel

Limited edition Levi's Trucker jacket with design by Kenny Scharf

Outfest and the rest

Today I am having an unexpectedly lazy day in NYC. It's been a while!

Both the meetings I was supposed to have today had to be rescheduled so now I am catching up on things and generally processing what has been going on with me in the last couple of weeks.

I finished Macbeth at the Lincoln Center festival last Saturday and immediately my body crashed. I think it was a combination of doing two shows on the last day (a feat that should only be demanded of the criminally insane or athletic masochists) as well as it being the end of the run and therefore my body knew it was allowed to let go and ask for help, but I spent a few days away just resting and trying to get my old bones to stop hurting. I felt a bit like my dog Honey. She is 12 now and when she has been sleeping for a while she is really stiff and a bit limpy for a minute when she wakes up.  I was the same. Each morning I would creak down the stairs, holding onto the rail and longing for my body to warm up so I could start to function properly. Ah showbiz. Anyway, Macbeth was the most amazing and challenging thing I have ever done and I am so happy to have achieved it and affected people in the way that we did. I had a great time in Glasgow with my old friends from the National Theatre of Scotland and we had a fantastic packed and supportive run at Lincoln Center festival in New York, where I had previously performed The Bacchae with NTS four years ago.

 

I am also very excited that my photography exhibition Alan Cumming Snaps! has been on display at the 200 Gallery in Provincetown as well as the OUT Hotel in New York City.  Sadly I didn't make it out to P'Town but I hear it was a blast

I started back on Season 4 of The Good Wife and it is looking to be a great season. Eli is back on the campaign trail where I think he functions best so I am looking forward to some juicy political masterminding over the next 9 months.

And I just got back from LA where I won the Best Actor award at Outfest for Any Day Now. The movie also won the audience award, as it has at every festval it has screened at: Tribeca, Proveincetown and Seattle. I also won the Best Actor at Seattle. I am really proud of this film and so excited that it will be released late 2012.

Family Equality Council

Because of my portrayal as Rudy in Travis Fine's film Any Day Now I was asked to become a member of the Family Equality  Board of Advocates. The newly created Board of Advocates are a group of luminaries who's mission is to ensure equal rights for the one million moms and dads in the U.S who are LGBT and the two million children they are raising. 

The Family Equality Council is a wonderful organization who is working to create a world where their families are respected, loved and celebrated. Their goal is to change hearts and minds and to advance social justice for all families. They are America's foremost advocate for LGBT family equality and work to achieve their goal by building community through national events and regional programs; providing direct support to LGBT families and prospective parents; educating the American public on issues and securing inclusion in legislation, policies and pracites impacting families. 

It really is an amazing honor and I'm just so grateful for the opportunity.