Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee, Ms Cilento will tour Australia starring in the Australian premiere of the one-woman, tour-de-force Woman Before a Glass about the life and times of art icon Peggy Guggenheim.

The play, by award-winning US playwright Lanie Robertson (Nasty Little Secrets, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Stringbrean, Bringing Mother Down), will be directed by critically acclaimed Sydney-based director Kate Gaul and opens on 16 January at Sydney's Parade Theatre before transferring to Melbourne's Comedy Theatre on February 13