In June, Mark Rylance will make his Bristol Old Vic debut in Semmelweis, a powerful world premiere based on the true story of Dr Ignaz Semmelweis. 

Following sold-out runs at both Chichester Festival Theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory, Laura Wade’s The Watsons transfers to the West End in 2020. The production opens at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 19 May, with previews from 8 May, and runs until 26 September. Public booking opens on 15 November, priority booking is open now.

Producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and Sonia Friedman Productions announced today that To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s new play based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by Bartlett Sher, will open at London’s Gielgud Theatre in May 2020.

Sonia Friedman Productions today announces initial casting for the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt to be directed by Patrick Marber, as well as a four-week extension to the run which goes on sale today at 10am. Now booking to 13 June 2020, Leopoldstadt begins previews at Wyndham’s Theatre on 25 January 2020 with opening night on 12 February 2020.  

Rosalind Eleazar, Aimee Lou Wood, Anna Calder-Marshall, Dearbhla Molloy, Peter Wight and Ciarán Hinds will join Toby Jones and Richard Armitage in a major new production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Sonia Friedman Productions today announced Conor McPherson’s (The Weir, Girl from the North Country) new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya directed by Ian Rickson (Jerusalem, The Seagull) which will run at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 14^th January, with Opening Night on Thursday 23^rd January.

Robert Icke’s (The Wild Duck, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, 1984) sold-out, five-star Almeida Theatre production, The Doctor, will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre from 20 April – 11 July 2020, with press night on Wednesday 29 April. Olivier Award winner, Juliet Stevenson, ‘delivering one of the peak performances of the theatrical year’ (The Guardian), will reprise her role as Professor Ruth Wolff.

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child theatre producer Sonia Friedman and her sister Maria Friedman on their childhood and careers.

An article from The Times by Caroline Scott. 

It was announced today that Sonia Friedman has been listed in British Airways’ BA 100, acknowledged as 100 of the most pioneering, creative, welcoming and open minded Modern Britons inspiring change and shaping our country.

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions, and Hunter Arnold have announced casting for the highly anticipated Broadway production of Matthew Lopez’ epic two-part play, THE INHERITANCE.  Winner of the 2019 Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award, and London Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, THE INHERITANCE is directed by multi Olivier and Tony Award-winner Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, Netflix’s “The Crown”) and designed by Olivier and Tony Award winner Bob Crowley.

The Stage Debut Awards nominees have been announced today. Matthew Lopez has been nominated for Best Creative West End Debut for The Inheritance. Also nominated are The Inheritance cast members Andrew Burnap & Samuel H. Levine in the Best West End Debut category.