Back to News & Press Full casting announced for Stereophonic Wednesday, 26 March 2025 The highly anticipated West End transfer of Stereophonic , the Tony Award-winning play by David Adjmi with music by Will Butler , has officially announced its full cast ahead of its UK debut at London's Duke of York's theatre this May. Playing an ambitious rock band struggling to record their new album are: Zachary Hart as Reg the bass player, Lucy Karczewski as Diana the charismatic lead singer, Jack Riddiford as Peter the guitarist and Nia Towle as Holly, the keys player. They join previously announced cast members., all of whom are reprising their roles from the acclaimed Broadway production. Andrew R. Butler and Eli Gelb as sound engineers Charlie and Grover, and Chris Stack as Simon the drummer. Understudies include Sam Denia (Reg, Charlie, Grover), Rima Georges (Holly), Lucy Gray (Diana) and Steve Shirley {Simon and Peter). As the band strives to perfect each track of their make-or-break album, the cast of actor-musicians will play their instruments and sing live on stage each night, echoing the exacting process of the recording studio. Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in an a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spork their breakup - or their breakthrough. In Stereophonic , Adjmi invites the audience to immerse themselves–with fly-on-the-wall intimacy–in the powder keg process of a band on the brink of blowing up. Up Up

Back to Productions OTHERWISE ENGAGED This production began performances on 25th October 2005 and closed on 28th January 2006. Sophisticated and witty, a modern classic of English high comedy. The Daily Telegraph Witty, urbane, sophisticated and selfish, publisher 'Simon Hench' is a man of taste and discretion, who is accustomed to keeping himself at a graceful distance from the messy distractions of his family and friends. He has a problem, though - well, several actually - only he just doesn't know it yet. Settling in for a morning in his lavishly furnished home with his new recording of Wagner's Parsifal, Simon is besieged by a deluge of unwelcome visitors and his usually cool demeanour begins to buckle as life finally catches up with him. Extremely funny, excellent revival. The Times A major new revival of Simon Gray 's classic comedy, Otherwise Engaged , will complete a five-week regional tour before opening in the West End at the Criterion Theatre on 25 October (press night 31 October). Directed by Simon Curtis and starring Richard E. Grant ('Simon Hench'), Anthony Head ('Jeff Golding'), David Bamber ('Bernard Wood') and Peter Wight ('Stephen Hench'), the production will open on 21 September at the Bath Theatre Royal and visit Oxford, Milton Keynes, and Woking before coming to London. Further casting includes Liam Garrigan who will play 'Dave' and Amanda Ryan who will take the role of 'Davina Saunders'. Simon Gray 's wickedly sharp, satirical, award-winning comedy was first performed in 1975 with a cast that included Alan Bates, Nigel Hawthorne, Julian Glover and Ian Charleson. The show was an instant success in the West End, winning the best play awards from the Evening Standard, Variety Club and Plays and Players. The play transferred to Broadway with Tom Courtenay taking over the lead from Alan Bates and extended its West End run with Michael Gambon taking over as Simon Hench. The West End production gave 1,029 performances and ran for two years. This new production for 2005 will be the first West End revival since the original production. Darkly comic aplomb and a high degree of psychological shrewdness. The Independent CAST RICHARD E. GRANT – Simon LIAM GARRIGAN – Dave PETER WIGHT – Stephen ANTHONY HEAD – Jeff AMANDA RYAN – Davina DAVID BAMBER – Wood AMANDA DREW – Beth CREATIVES SIMON GRAY – Playwright SIMON CURTIS – Director SIMON HIGLETT – Designer TIM MITCHELL – Lighting CLEMENT RAWLING – Sound KATIE MCALEESE – Assistant Director

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Back to Productions SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO This production began performances on 3rd May and closed on 2nd August 2003. The Chicago singles scene is a hotbed of opportunity for Danny ( Matthew Perry ) and his friend Bernie ( Hank Azaria ), two red-blooded males playing the mating and dating game. Bars, libraries, beaches – they'll go anywhere that the women are – the very places frequented by smart girls like Joan ( Minnie Driver ) and Deborah ( Kelly Reilly ). Controversial, provocative and bitingly funny, David Mamet 's classic 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play about four young people looking for love. Matthew Perry is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing in the international hit comedy series Friends. Oscar-nominated actress Minnie Driver is one of the UK's most successful film actresses, having appeared in Good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank and Circle of Friends. Triple Emmy Award-winner Hank Azaria provides some of the key character voices for The Simpsons, whilst his film roles include The Birdcage and Quiz Show. Kelly Reilly is one of Britain's most versatile stage actresses and has appeared in The Graduate, The London Cuckolds and Blasted. CAST MATTHEW PERRY – Danny MINNIE DRIVER – Joan HANK AZARIA – Bernard KELLY REILLY – Deborah CREATIVES DAVID MAMET – Playwright LINDSAY POSNER – Director JEREMY HERBERT – Designer NIGEL EDWARDS – Lighting Designer TERRY DAVIES – Music MATT MCKENZIE – Sound Designer JIM CARNHAN – U.S. Casting

Back to News & Press London’s West End is sleepwalking into oblivion – the Government must wake up Sunday, 13 June 2021 "Our commercial theatres need government-backed insurance – many livelihoods are under existential threat if Step Four is delayed." Read Sonia Friedman’s full Telegraph article. Up Up

Back to Productions KING CHARLES III – WEST END This production began performances on 2nd September 2014 and closed on 31st January 2015. Play of the year. Bold, brilliant theatre doesn’t get much better than this The Times The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Attendance is compulsory. A royal entertaining drama for our time Daily Telegraph Directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold , this ‘bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining new play’ (The Independent) explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. King Charles III is the fourth production to transfer from the Almeida Theatre to the West End with co-producer Sonia Friedman Productions , following Chimerica, Ghosts and 1984. Tim Pigott-Smith plays Charles. The cast also includes Richard Goulding , Nyasha Hatendi , Adam James , Margot Leicester , Tom Robertson , Nicholas Rowe , Tafline Steen and Lydia Wilson . Sonia Friedman Productions , Stuart Thompson Productions and The Almeida Theatre, in association with Lee Dean & Charles Diamon and Tulchin Bartner Productions , present the Almeida production of “KING CHARLES III ”. Play of the year. A crowning achievement Mail on Sunday CAST TIM PIGOTT-SMITH RICHARD GOULDING NYASHA HATENDI ADAM JAMES MARGOT LEICESTER TOM ROBERTSON NICHOLAS ROWE TAFLINE STEEN LYDIA WILSON CREATIVES RUPERT GOOLD – Director TOM SCUTT – Designer JON CLARK – Lighting Designer PAUL ARDITTI – Sound Designer

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman Productions, Annapurna Theatre and the Almeida Theatre Announce the Transfer of the Sell-Out, Critically Acclaimed and Award-Winning Production of 1536 Monday, 17 November 2025 ★★★★★ “Funny, saucy, and totally gripping” The Daily Mail ★★★★ The Guardian, Independent, The Standard, The Stage, WhatsOnStage, Financial Times SMART. SCRAPPY. SAVAGE. 1536 , the “electrifying” (The Standard) historical drama with a modern edge, transfers to the West End following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre. Running from 02 May to 01 August 2026 at the Ambassadors Theatre, this must-see new play is “effortlessly funny, bold and ballsy” (The Guardian). Casting for the production will be announced in due course. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica ), this “razor-sharp, darkly comic and blisteringly relevant ” (The Independent) play explores the dynamics of female friendship in a world stacked against women. 1536 is writer Ava Pickett ’s first play, which won her the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the award for Best Writer at the 2025 Stage Debut Awards, and a special commendation from The George Devine Award. She is currently co-writing, alongside Baz Luhrmann, his Jehanne D'Arc film. Ava Pickett, Writer , said “It’s hard to put into words how much this whole process has meant to me so I’m going to resort to cliché and say it’s beyond my wildest dreams – which still feels a bit like I’m downplaying it. I’m such an example of what can happen when people get in your corner early and so I just want to thank everyone at the Almeida Theatre and Genesis for developing it and putting it on in the first place and then thank you so much to Sonia Friedman for coming in with such enthusiasm and belief in it and wanting to bring it into the West End - I really am still pinching myself! It's hard to talk about “inspiration” for the play, as to be honest, 1536 was written in response to the never-ending stories in the news about violence against women. It asks the question if a King can kill his wife in a palace, how does that impact three working class women in Essex? Because the world we live in has not changed as much as we are made to believe, because what happens in the corridors of power still bleeds down, as it always has. So what a privilege it is to be able to bring Anna, Mariella and Jane to more audiences in all their complicated, funny, dark, desperate glory”. Kings don’t kill their wives, right? Tudor England. A field in Essex. Three women hurry to their childhood meeting place, thirsty for gossip from London. Word spreads of a clash between King Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And closer to home, another rumour begins to catch fire. As these women begin to see echoes of the royal drama in their own rural lives, a tide of violence threatens their very existence, and they realise the royal scandal could cost them everything. The creative team for 1536 includes; Director: Lyndsey Turner ; Set and Costume Designer: Max Jones ; Lighting Designer: Jack Knowles ; Sound Designer: Tingying Dong , Movement and Intimacy Director: Anna Morrissey ; Composer and Arranger: Will Stuart and Casting Director: Amy Ball CDG. 1536 is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions, Annapurna Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre. Up Up

Back to Productions ALL ABOUT EVE – DIGITAL Gillan Anderson (A Streetcar Name Desire) and Lily James (Mama Mia!) lead in All About Eve. ★★★★ Lily James is excellent and Gillian Anderson is incredible in one of those "I was there" moments Time Out Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve...don’t you? ★★★★ This is event theatre done with tremendous panache Daily Mail Directed by Ivo van Hove (Hedda Gabler, A View From The Bridge ) and captured from London’s West End. All About Eve lifts the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition and asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old. Filmed by National Theatre Live Presented by Sonia Freidman Productions Available at least until 12 January 2023 ★★★★ Impressive, thought provoking and highly pertinent Independent CAST GILLIAN ANDERSON – Margo LILY JAMES – Eve MONICA DOLAN – Karen JULIAN OVENDEN – Bill SHEILA REID – Birdie RHASHAN STONE – Lloyd CREATIVES IVO VAN HOVE – Director JOSEPH L MANKIEWICZ – Writer JAN VERSWEYVELD – Set and Lighting Designer AN D'HUYS – Costume Designer PJ HARVEY – Music TOM GIBBONS – Sound Designer JULIA HORAN CDG – Casting

Back to News & Press The Jungle wins South Bank Sky Arts Award Saturday, 30 June 2018 A National Theatre and Young Vic co-production with Good Chance Theatre , The Jungle is directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin . It is currently in previews at the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions , Tom Kirdahy and Hunter Arnold , following a sell-out run at the Young Vic in December 2017. Melvyn Bragg presented the annual Awards at The Savoy Hotel in London, commending the greatest contributors to all aspects of the arts over the past 12 months. The South Bank Sky Arts Awards remains the only awards ceremony in the world to represent the entire spectrum of the arts, with categories for TV Drama, Classical Music, Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Film, Visual Art, Pop, Literature and Opera. In order to transfer the production to the West End, the team behind The Jungle have completely reconfigured the Playhouse Theatre , where the traditional proscenium arch venue has undergone an unprecedented transformation to house Miriam Buether ’s critically-acclaimed set design as seen at the Young Vic. Audiences are invited to sit at the benches and tables of the Afghan café in the Calais camp. The Playhouse Theatre also offers the new experience of watching from the Dress Circle, which has been renamed “Cliffs of Dover”, with views over the dramatically transformed performance space below, enhanced by accompanying video screens, relaying close-up ‘live news broadcast’ style footage of some of the action. The in-the-round transformation reduces the capacity of the theatre to under 450 seats. A proportion of tickets are being offered to refugees and targeted groups in order to maximise diversity and accessibility. Bucket collections and donation stations are available at every single performance of the show to help fundraise for official charity partners, Help Refugees. This is the place where people suffered and dreamed. Meet the hopeful, resilient residents of the Jungle – just across the Channel, right on our doorstep. The Jungle tells stories of loss, fear, community and hope, of the Calais camp’s creation - and of its eventual destruction. Join the residents over freshly baked naan and sweet milky chai at the Afghan Café, and experience the intense, moving and uplifting encounters between refugees from many different countries and the volunteers who arrived from the UK. Official charity partner, Help Refugees , which was established alongside Good Chance Theatre in the Calais Jungle in 2015 and is now the leading UK NGO in a new movement of international humanitarian aid, is supported by the production. The company is made up of actors from around the world; cast members are from Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, England, Zimbabwe, Syria, Armenia, Congo, Wales, Scotland,The Gambia, Morocco, Lebanon and Germany. Up Up

Back to Productions A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE – BROADWAY This production began performances on 28th December 2009. It officially opened on 24th January 2010 and closed on 4th April. In A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE , Miller's most passionate drama, Schreiber will play Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine, played by Scarlett Johansson. When Catherine falls in love with a newly arrived immigrant, Eddie's jealousy erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world. Tony® Award-winner Liev Schreiber and Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson , in her Broadway debut, starred in Arthur Miller 's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE directed by Gregory Mosher on Broadway at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street). Performances began Monday, December 28, 2009 with an official opening on Sunday, January 24, 2010. CAST LIEV SCHREIBER – Eddie SCARLETT JOHANSSON – Catherine JESSICA HECHT – Beatrice MICHAEL CRISTOFER – Alfieri MORGAN SPECTOR – Rodolpho COREY STOLL – Marco CREATIVES ARTHUR MILLER – Playwright GREGORY MOSHER – Director JOHN LEE BEATTY – Set Designer JANE GREENWOOD – Costume Designer PETER KACZOROWSKI – Lighting Designer SCOTT LEHRER – Sound Designer TOM WATSON – Hair and Wig Designer

Back to Productions 1984 – LONDON This production began performances on 12th June and closed on 5th November 2015. ★★★★★ Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan have pulled off something tremendous The Observer April, 1984. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought and starts a diary. But Big Brother is always watching, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Remarkable. Rendered with clinical, spine-tingling finesse The Telegraph The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical, award-winning adaptation exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever. 1984 is written and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan , with set and costume designed by Chloe Lamford , with lighting designed by Natasha Chivers , sound designed by Tom Gibbons and video designed by Tim Reid . George Orwell ’s 1984 , published in 1949, is one of the most influential novels in recent history, with its chilling depiction of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance and incessant public mind control. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell’s fiction is often said to be our reality. Sonia Friedman Productions , Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Tulchin Bartner Productions in association with 1001 Nights , Rupert Gavin , JFL Theatricals , Scott M. Delman , Scott & Brian Zeilinger /James Lefkowitz present The Headlong , Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida production of 1984 . ★★★★★ Never lets the audience off the hook The Guardian CAST SIMON COATES – Parsons TIM DUTTON – O'Brien STEPHEN FEWELL – Charrington JANINE HAROUNI – Julia CHRISTOPHER PATRICK NOLAN – Martin BEN PORTER – Syme MATTHEW SPENCER – Winston MANDI SYMONDS – Mrs Parsons CREATIVES Adapted and directed by ROBERT ICKE and DUNCAN MACMILLAN CHLOE LAMFORD – Designer NATASHA CHIVERS – Lighting Designer TOM GIBBONS – Sound Designer TIM REID – Video Designer GINNY SCHILLER CDG – Casting Director

Back to News & Press Merrily We Roll Along opens on Broadway to rave reviews Tuesday, 10 October 2023 Merrily We Roll Along's Broadway transfer opened to critical acclaim on Tuesday 10 October 2023. "It's a hit" – The New York Times ★★★★ "It's a smash" – New York Post "A magnificent revival of a great Broadway musical" "Broadway never saw a better triple-act than Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez." – Chicago Tribune "Maria Friedman's inspired re-invention of Merrily We Roll Along makes Broadway - and Sondheim - feel newly and fully alive again." – Ben Brantley "Stunning and rapturous" – The Wall Street Journal "As close to perfect as Broadway gets" – USA Today Best availability starting November. Book now to see "The Season's most essential show!" (Ben Brantley). Up Up