'Sex' star back on London stage

Cattrall has been filming the second Sex And the City film in New York

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will be returning to the West End stage in the Noel Coward comedy Private Lives.

Cattrall, best known for playing the outspoken Samantha Jones in the hit US TV series, will star opposite former Spooks star Matthew MacFadyen.

Award-winning director Richard Eyre will direct the revival at London's Vaudeville Theatre from 3 March.

British-born Cattrall won critical acclaim for her West End debut in 2005 in the play Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Private Lives follows a pair of divorcees who find themselves drawn back into a torrid affair while honeymooning with their new spouses in France.

It will have a two-week preview run at Bath's Theatre Royal in February, ahead of its London opening.

Cattrall has most recently been filming the second movie in the Sex and the City series in New York, with co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.

MacFadyen will next be seen as the Sheriff of Nottingham opposite Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's forthcoming film, Robin Hood.