Goold to co-direct 'Lion'

Goold Broadway and London legit vet Rupert Goold ("Macbeth") will co-direct a completely new stage output of "The Lion, the Witch as well as the Wardrobe" beginning london this summer season.Show might be the most recent multimedia production from Threesixty, the business whose 2009 version of "Peter Pan" shown popular in Blighty and ongoing with a U.S. tour, which most recently stopped in Boston. Goold, the a.d. in the U.K.'s Headlong Theater plus an connect director within the Royal Shakespeare Company, pens the variation and co-directs with Michael Fentiman.Like "Peter Pan," the completely new production will probably be staged in the 1200-chair tent ornamented having a circular screen which 360-degree CGI images are forecasted. Live thesps and puppets may also be built-into the completely new version in the C.S. Lewis tale.Show will begin perfs May 8 in Kensington Gardens, a part of one of the Royal Parks located in london. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com