Al Pacino's Broadway Run Extended

Al Pacino will be back on Broadway in February (11) after agreeing to extend his critically-acclaimed run in The Merchant Of Venice.
 
The Godfather star tackles the role of money-lender Shylock, opposite actress Lily Rabe in the Shakespeare play, and has won high praise from critics for what they insist is the best performance of the current theatre season.
 
The New York revival of the classic play is making in excess of $1 million (£670,000) a week at the box office - unprecedented figures for a non-musical - and theatre bosses were keen to extend Pacino's 78 performances past his previously scheduled Broadway bow.
 
The play will take a brief hiatus on its original closing date of 9 January (11) to allow Pacino time to film a movie, before resuming performances at the Broadhurst Theater from 1 to 20 February (11).

We haven't seen Pacino on the big screen since Righteous Kill in 2008 but the actor has a string of projects in the pipeline.

He has already completed filming on The Son of No One and is currently working on Jack and Jill, which also stars Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes.