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SYDNEY -- Cate Blanchett will share the stage with Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxburgh and John Bell in "Uncle Vanya" as part of the 2010 season at Sydney Theater Company, where Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, are co-artistic directors.

Upton will helm the production of Chekhov's tragi-comedy.

Blanchett and Upton will also bring other Hollywood talent to Oz: William Hurt will topline "Long Day's Journey Into Night" opposite ex-STC topper Robyn Nevin, and Philip Seymour Hoffman will helm Sam Shepard's "True West."

The 2010 season will also see Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Co. bow the Tony Award-winning "August: Osage County" by Tracy Letts. Anna D. Shapiro, who has directed the play in incarnations at the Steppenwolf, on Broadway and at London's National Theater, helms the Sydney staging, with casting to be announced.

STC's current production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," toplined by Blanchett and directed by Liv Ullmann, is set to travel to the U.S. in the fall, with stops at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.