MIRFIELD-BORN film star Patrick Stewart is to make a return to the London stage.

He will play opposite Dawson's Creek actor Joshua Jackson in a new production of David Mamet's A Life In The Theatre.

The play opens at the Apollo Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on January 27.

It will explore the friendship and rivalry between Jackson's aspiring young actor and Stewart's stage veteran.

Stewart, 64, is best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Xavier in the X-Men movies.