What Alan's up to

Wednesday 26 May 10

Alan Cumming has recently completed playing Eli Gold in the first season of the hit CBS drama The Good Wife. He is currently in South Africa filming the mini-series The Runaway, and will join the second season of The Good Wife as a series regular. Last year Cumming created a cabaret show I Bought A Blue Car Today ('A modern day Noel Coward' - The New York Times) for the Lincoln Center in NYC and went on to perform it at the Sydney Opera House, London’s West End and The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. This summer he takes it to Feinstein’s in NYC from June 22-26th. Broad Stages in Santa Monica on July 9th, The Castro Theater in San Francisco on July 10th and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from August 12-14th.  The album I Bought A Blue Car Today recently won a Bistro award and is available in stores and on I Tunes.
            Later this year he will appear alongside Cher and Christina Aguilera in the movie Burlesque, and with Helen Mirren, Chris Cooper, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina and Djimon Hounsou in Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In 2011 he will be heard in three animated films: Sir Billi the Vet opposite Sean Connery, Jackboots on Whitehall (in which he plays Hitler and Braveheart) and as Gutsy Smurf in The Smurfs.

         He recently launched an obsession-based website www.itasickness.com