Goold to co-direct 'Lion'

Goold Broadway and London legit vet Rupert Goold ("Macbeth") will co-direct a brand new stage manufacture of "The Lion, the Witch and also the Wardrobe" starting working in london this summer time.Show may be the latest multimedia production from Threesixty, the organization whose 2009 version of "Peter Pan" demonstrated popular in Blighty and continued to some U.S. tour, which most lately stopped in Boston. Goold, the a.d. from the U.K.'s Headlong Theater as well as an connect director in the Royal Shakespeare Company, pens the variation and co-directs with Michael Fentiman.Like "Peter Pan," the brand new production is going to be staged inside a 1200-chair tent encircled with a circular screen which 360-degree CGI images are forecasted. Live thesps and puppets will also be integrated into the brand new version from the C.S. Lewis tale.Show will start perfs May 8 in Kensington Gardens, part of among the Royal Parks based in london. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com