Our commercial theatres need government-backed insurance – many livelihoods are under existential threat if Step Four is delayed
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Following performances as part of SFP’s RE:EMERGE season at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert will run for 5 performances only at Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Nottingham from 21 to 24 July; and Joseph Charlton’s Anna X will run at The Lowry, Salford for 6 performances only from 10 August to 14 August, enabling more audiences to access the productions.
Amazon Prime Video to broadcast four productions filmed by the National Theatre exclusively in the UK and Ireland.
Titles include Fleabag, the original one-woman stage show from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, directed by Danny Boyle and Sonia Friedman Productions’ Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch.
James Graham’s new short film People You May Know on the growing influence of big data and algorithms on our day-to-day lives, starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill, is released today via ft.com/drama and the FT’s YouTube channel.
BAFTA award-winning and Golden Globe nominated James McAvoy and BAFTA award-winning and Emmy nominated Sharon Horgan star in multi award-winning writer, Dennis Kelly’s searingly funny and painfully poignant love story, Together.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday 30th April, with over 1,000 tickets a week abailable at £25 or under.
Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, directed by Patrick Marber and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, will return to Wyndham’s Theatre for a 12-week run from 7 August – 30 October 2021.
Sonia Friedman Productions is delighted to announce that the first ever UK tour of hit musical Dreamgirls, which was due to start in 2020, will now open at the Liverpool Empire Theatre this December before visiting cities right across the country throughout 2022 and into 2023
Sonia Friedman Productions today announces the dates for the RE:EMERGE season as priority booking opens on 15 April at 10.30am, with public booking opening 16 April at 10am.
Marrying the intimacy of the screen with the electricity of live theater, Great Performances: Uncle Vanya premieres nationwide Friday, May 7 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf and the PBS Video app.
Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and Sonia Friedman announce today that multi-Olivier and Emmy Award nominee Rafe Spall will play Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.