Quebec producer-director Robert Lepage's The Blue Dragon is part of the Mirvish 2011-12 season. (Erick Labbe/Mirvish Productions)Canadian actress Kim Cattrall, best known for her role in Sex and the City, will take to a Toronto stage later this year in Private Lives.

Cattrall first starred in a critically acclaimed 2010 production of the Noel Coward play in London's West End. She will reprise the role of Amanda, the woman who runs off with her ex-husband while on her honeymoon with a second spouse.

Private Lives is part of the Mirvish Productions 2011-2012 season, announced at a press conference Tuesday in Toronto.

"It's a very glamorous time," Cattrall said of the comedy, set in the 1920s.

"You see this woman who still has so much hope and curiosity. To play someone like that and also give her my own little spin of determination and guts and stubbornness — it's a very good combination."

Kim Cattrall as Amanda in the West End revival of Private Lives, coming to Toronto in fall 2011. (Nobby Clark/Mirvish Productions)British-born but raised in British Columbia, Cattrall described Private Lives as one of the happiest collaborations of her career. The actress, who appeared in films such as The Ghost Writer and TV shows like Producing Parker, recalled getting her start in Toronto theatre.

"I got my Equity card here in Toronto. I did The Rocky Horror Show at the Ryerson Theatre and went on to work at Toronto Free Theatre doing an original Canadian piece. I worked at the Vancouver Cultural Centre doing lunchtime theatre. These are really very special times for me because I was just getting started," Cattrall told CBC News.

"I remember I was offered a contract at Universal Studios and at same time offered a season at the National Theatre in Ottawa. I had such a difficult time deciding because everything in me wanted to do a [Georges] Feydeau farce at the National Theatre of Canada proudly. Unfortunately, I made the wrong decision," she joked.

After its run in Toronto in September and October, the show will head to Broadway.

Lineup also includes musicals, Lepage work

Overall, Mirvish unveiled seven productions for the upcoming season, including the previously announced The Railway Children, set to debut this summer.

The Blue Dragon, Quebec director Robert Lepage's spectacular meditation on China, will take the stage at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in January and February 2012.

The work is a follow-up Lepage's The Dragons' Trilogy, the epic that gained him international attention a quarter-century ago.

The Blue Dragon has played in Ottawa and Vancouver, but has never been performed in Toronto. The production focuses on the life of an expat Canadian, living in Shanghai, whose life is turned upside down by two women — one from his Western past and the other from his Asian present.

Other shows for 2011-12 include:

• Mary Poppins, a revival currently on stage in New York.
• Chess the Musical, which features music by Abba's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and lyrics by Tim Rice.
• War Horse, the Canadian premiere of the puppet theatre hit from London's National Theatre.
• Hair, the same revival staged in London and New York.

To be featured outside of the subscription season are:

• Ghost Stories, the London play by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.
• Good Morning, Mrs. Brown, the return of the Agnes Brown character from How Now Mrs. Brown Cow.
• Women Fully Clothed: Older and Hotter, starring Canadian comedians Kathryn Greenwood, Robin Duke, Jayne Eastwood and Teresa Pavlinek.
• 2 Pianos, 4 Handsby Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt.