A stage version of the DRACULA story is coming back from the dead - the bloodsucking vampire is swooping into a New York theatre for the first time in 33 years.
Italian actor Michel Altieri will play the title role in the show, opposite Sweeney Todd star George Hearn as vampire-hunter Van Helsing and American Beauty's Thora Birch, who plays Dracula's victim, Lucy.
The show is set to launch at the Off-Broadway Little Shubert Theatre next month (Dec10), according to Variety.
The Dracula stage play last ran on Broadway in 1977.