Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions are pleased to announce casting for the Broadway premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Preview performances will begin in New York at the fully renovated Lyric Theatre in March 2018 with an official opening on Sunday, April 22, 2018. 

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the title role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which returns to cinemas around the UK on Thursday 5th October as part of National Theatre Live.

Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre are pleased to announce the West End transfer of Ink, a new play by James Graham, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold.

On Sunday 9th July, the winners of the 21st South Bank Sky Arts Awards were revealed at The Savoy Hotel, the only awards to focus on the arts in their entirety and celebrate the best of culture in the UK across 10 categories. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was thrilled to be announced as the winner of the Theatre Award.

Following unanimous critical acclaim and overwhelming demand for tickets, Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes, will today extend its run at the Gielgud Theatre until 6 January 2018. 

On Sunday, Sonia Friedman featured on Kirsty Young’s insightful Radio 4 segment Desert Island Discs.

Ahead of the new cast’s first performance at London’s Palace Theatre on Wednesday (24 May 2017), the Producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child release a first-look set of portraits by Charlie Gray.  

Mark Rylance, three-time Tony Award winner (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing, Twelfth Night) and Academy Award-winner (Bridge of Spies), will return to Broadway in the critically acclaimed Shakespeare’s Globe production of FARINELLI AND THE KING, a new play with music by author and composer Claire van Kampen, it was announced today by producers Sonia Friedman, Shakespeare’s Globe and Paula Marie Black. 

Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions have today confirmed that the production will have its Broadway premiere in the Spring of 2018 at the newly renovated Lyric Theatre in New York. As previously announced, the Lyric Theatre is currently undergoing a complete redesign and transformation in preparation for the North American premiere of the production.

The official opening will be on Sunday, April 22, 2018. Preview performances, casting and all further details will be announced in the coming months.

• On Sunday 9 April Dreamgirls celebrated two Olivier Award wins, for Amber Riley (Best Actress in a Musical) and Adam J Bernard (Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical)
• The Original London Cast Recording release date is confirmed as Friday 12 May 2017 - the recording is currently available to pre-order via Amazon
• To celebrate Amber Riley’s show-stopping performance at the Olivier Awards ‘And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going’ will be made available on Friday 21 April as an early download exclusive to all who pre-order the album
• “Listen” is confirmed to be released as a single on Friday 28 April

We are delighted to have won an incredible eleven awards at the 2017 Olivier Awards, including a record-breaking nine wins for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most Olivier Awards ever won by any single production.

A further two Olivier Awards were awarded to Dreamgirls, which we are extremely proud to have brought to the West End thirty-five years after the ground-breaking original Broadway production.