BBC News - UK - The 28-year-old will star opposite Tony Award-winning actor Jefferson Mays, who will play the part of Henry Higgins.

Pygmalion premiered on Broadway in 1914 and was later adapted into the musical My Fair Lady.

Danes, who won a Golden Globe in 1995, will tread the boards in October when the plays opens for a two-month run.

The show tells the story of Professor Higgins' bid to transform Doolittle, a poor and uneducated English girl, into a society lady.

Danes rose to fame in teen TV series My So-Called Life and her film credits include a starring role in the 1996 version of Romeo and

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA, USA - She had her doubters, and we have to admit, we were among them.

But "American Idol" winner Fantasia has just been slaying them in the aisles as Celie in the Broadway version of "The Color Purple."

Word is she's in talks to stay on the Great White Way in a new show about our girl Ada "Bricktop" Smith.

Y'all don't know about "Bricktop"?

Well, it's about time you learn, 'cause Miss Thing was a bad mama jama and the toast of 1920s Paris. We know 'cause we read her published biography eons ago.

Raised in Alderson, W.Va. (yeah, that's where Martha Stewart did time), she