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Back to News & Press Rosmersholm, All About Eve and The Doctor are nominated for WhatsOnStage Awards Thursday, 5 December 2019 Rosmersholm Best Actress in a Play – Hayley Atwell Best Supporting Actor in a Play – Giles Terera Best Graphic Direction – Bob King Creative All About Eve Best Supporting Actress in a Play – Monica Dolan The Doctor Best Actress in a Play – Juliet Stevenson Best Supporting Actress in a Play - Ria Zmitrowicz Best New Play – Robert Icke Best Direction – Robert Icke Voting is now open and will close on 27 January: https://awards.whatsonstage.com/index.php/voting-2/ Up Up

Back to News & Press Additional casting announced on Nice Work If You Can Get It Friday, 9 December 2011 Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, December 14 for American Express® Cardmembers for the new musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT stars two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick and three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara and will be directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall. The production begins performances on Thursday, March 29, 2012 and will officially open on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street). From December 14th at 10:00 AM through December 31st only American Express® Cardmembers can get advance tickets to NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT. Preferred Seating is available to Gold Card, Platinum Card® and Centurion® members. For tickets, visit Telecharge.com or call 212-239-6200. General public on sale begins Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM. In addition to Matthew Broderick as Jimmy Winter and Kelli O’Hara as Billie Bendix, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will star Tony Award winner Judy Kaye as Estonia Dulworth, The Duchess of Woodford; Tony Award nominee Michael McGrath as Cookie McGee; Tony Award nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson as Eileen Evergreen; Terry Beaver as Senator Max Evergreen; Robyn Hurder as Jeannie Muldoon; Stanley Wayne Mathis as Chief Berry and Chris Sullivan as Duke Mahoney. The cast also will feature Cameron Adams, Clyde Alves, Jason Depinto, Kimberly Faure, Stephanie Martignetti, Barrett Martin, Michael X. Martin, Vivian Nixon, Adam Perry, Jeffrey Schecter, Jennifer Smith, Joey Sorge, Samantha Sturm and Kristen Beth Williams. Additional casting will be announced at a later date. The production features scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by Brian Ronan. The music supervisor is David Chase. This new musical features a veritable hit parade of iconic George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin songs as well as some unknown gems in their catalog, and a book by Joe DiPietro. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT follows Billie Bendix (Kelli O'Hara), a tough-as-nails bootlegger who meets wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter (Matthew Broderick) on the weekend of his nuptials. Mayhem ensues. Up Up

Back to News & Press Dreamgirls extends until October 2017 Friday, 16 December 2016 We are delighted to announce that at midday on Friday 16 December Dreamgirls , which opened this week at the Savoy Theatre to widespread critical acclaim 35 years after originally opening on Broadway, will extend booking through to 21 October 2017. All performances to date have been sold out and with performances for the forthcoming weeks also sold out customers are advised that best availability is now from March 2017. The long-awaited UK premiere of Dreamgirls stars American actress and singer Amber Riley as ‘Effie White’, Liisi LaFontaine as Deena Jones and Ibinabo Jack as Lorrell Robinson making up the soulful singing trio ‘The Dreams’. Joe Aaron Reid plays Curtis Taylor Jr, Adam J. Bernard plays Jimmy Early, Tyrone Huntley plays C.C. White, Nicholas Bailey plays Marty and Lily Frazer plays Michelle Morris with Ruth Brown and Karen Mav alternating the role of Effie White at performances when Amber Riley is not scheduled to perform. The cast of Dreamgirls also includes Michael Afemaré, Jocasta Almgill, Callum Aylott, Hugo Batista, Samara Casteallo, Chloe Chambers, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Joelle Dyson, Kimmy Edwards, Candace Furbert, Nathan Graham, Ashley Luke Lloyd, Gabriel Mokake, Siân Nathaniel-James, Sean Parkins, Kirk Patterson, Ryan Reid, Rohan Richards, Noel Samuels, Durone Stokes and Tosh Wanogho-Maud. Dreamgirls is Directed and Choreographed by Olivier and Tony Award®-winning Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Disney’s Aladdin and Something Rotten!), with Set Design by Tim Hatley, Costume Design by Gregg Barnes, Lighting Design by Hugh Vanstone, Sound Design by Richard Brooker and Hair Design by Josh Marquette. The Musical Supervisor is Nick Finlow, the Orchestrator is Harold Wheeler, with Additional Material by Willie Reale. Swarovski is delighted to be the Set and Costume Design partner for Dreamgirls , bringing to life the incredible visions of Tim Hatley and Gregg Barnes. Over one million Swarovski crystals have been incorporated into the production, adorning 275 costumes and 3 crystal curtains. Dreamgirls transports you to a revolutionary time in American music history. Dreamgirls charts the tumultuous journey of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called ‘The Dreams’, as they learn the hard lesson that show business is as tough as it is fabulous, and features the classic songs ‘And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going ’, ‘I Am Changing ’, ‘Listen ’ and ‘One Night Only ’. With Book and Lyrics by Tom Eyen and Music by Henry Krieger, the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, Directed and Choreographed by Michael Bennett opened in 1981 and subsequently won six Tony Awards®. The original cast recording won two Grammy awards for Best Musical Album and Best Vocal Performance for Jennifer Holliday’s ‘And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going. ’ In 2006 it was adapted into an Oscar winning motion picture starring Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx. Liisi LaFontaine is appearing with the support of UK Equity, incorporating the Variety Artistes’ Federation, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. Up Up

Back to Productions OEDIPUS This production began performances on 4 October 2024 and must end on 4 January 2025. ★★★★★ 'There will not be a more powerful production in the UK this year. It is electric' Susannah Clapp, The Observer Oedipus won the following Olivier Awards 2025: Best Revival Best Actress – Lesley Manville Oedipus won the following Critic's Circle Awards 2025: Best Director – Robert Icke Best Actor – Mark Strong Best Actress – Lesley Manville Behind every great man is a great woman. Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Starring the internationally renowned, multi-award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles’ epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller. ★★★★★ 'Robert Icke's retelling is riveting from beginning to end’ The Guardian After his revelatory Oresteia , visionary director Robert Icke (1984, The Doctor ) reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy, bringing the secrets of the past bursting into the present. Following hit runs at International Theatre Amsterdam and the Edinburgh Festival, Oedipus comes to Wyndham’s Theatre for a strictly limited season from 4 October. ★★★★★ Oedipus has never looked sharper, sicker or more modern Mail on Sunday CAST MARK STRONG – Oedipus LESLEY MANVILLE – Jacosta SAMUEL BREWER – Teiresias MICHAEL GOULD – Creon SARA HAZEMI – Lichas/Understudy Antigone GARY MCDONALD – Driver BHASKER PATEL – Corin PHIA SABAN – Antigone JORDAN SCOWEN – Eteocles JUNE WATSON – Merope JAMES WILBRAHAM – Polyneices JIM CREIGHTON – Ensemble/Understudy Oedipus & Creon DEREK ELROY – Ensemble/Understudy Corin, Teiresias, Driver CELIA NELSON – Ensemble/Understudy Joxasta & Merope JAKE RORY – Ensemble/Understudy Polyneices, Eteocles & Lichas CREATIVES ROBERT ICKE – Director HILDEGARD BECHTLER – Set Design WOJCIECH DZIEDZIC – Costume Design NATASHA CHIVERS – Lighting Design TOM GIBBONS – Sound Design TAL YARDEN – Video Design JULIA HORAN CDG – Casting Director

Back to Productions KING LEAR – FILM This production first aired on 28th May 2018 on BBC 2. Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy® Award winner Anthony Hopkins as the eponymous ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England. Academy® Award and BAFTA® Award winner Emma Thompson stars as his oldest daughter Goneril. Academy® Award nominee and BAFTA® Award winner Emily Watson (Theory of Everything, Genius) stars as his middle daughter Regan, and rising star Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth, Marcella) as Cordelia, the youngest of Lear’s children. BBC Two , Amazon Prime Video , Golden Globe®, BAFTA®, and RTS® Award-winning drama producer Playground and Olivier® and Tony® Award-winning producer Sonia Friedman Productions announced that Anthony Hopkins (The Dresser, Nixon, Silence of the Lambs ) and Emma Thompson (The Children Act, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility ) reunite in their third collaboration and lead an all-star cast for their upcoming production of Shakespeare ’s King Lear , adapted and directed by BAFTA® and Olivier® Award-winning director Richard Eyre (The Dresser, Notes on a Scandal ). The film for television is commissioned by the BBC and will premiere on BBC Two in the UK in 2018. Amazon Studios is co-producing and taking US and German rights. Amazon Prime Video will also air the drama in the UK, following the BBC’s run. Academy® Award and BAFTA® Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Game of Thrones ) takes the role of the Earl of Gloucester, BAFTA® Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, The Hollow Crown ) as his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan (Hanna, Chewing Gum ) as his illegitimate son Edmund. Emmy® Award nominated Jim Carter (Downton Abbey, Cranford ) takes the role of the Earl of Kent, Emmy® Award winner Christopher Eccleston (The Leftovers, Thor: The Dark World ) as Oswald, and Golden Globe® nominee Tobias Menzies (Outlander, The Terror ) plays the Duke of Cornwall. Anthony Calf (New Tricks, Riviera ) plays the Duke of Albany and Karl Johnson (Wittgenstein, Rome ) is set to play Lear’s loyal jester the Fool. “It is a tribute to the great Richard Eyre that we have brought together such a remarkable cast. The film is a testament to the BBC’s ongoing commitment to the single drama, and we are very appreciative of their continued support ,” Colin Callender, and Sonia Friedman, Executive Producers said. “We are particularly excited to be working with Amazon and their support for the film reflects their emergence as a leading global brand of top quality drama.” Piers Wenger , Controller of BBC Drama, said: “Richard Eyre has assembled an unmissable cast to embody his vision for a timeless but deeply resonant screen adaptation of King Lear. We are all looking forward to seeing this landmark production come to life on BBC Two.” “Playground has an incredible track record of producing award-worthy series and films, and we are delighted to work with them and SFP on bringing such a star-studded, exciting adaptation to Prime members,” said Brad Beale , Vice President, Worldwide TV Content Acquisition, Amazon Prime Video. CAST ANTHONY HOPKINS – Lear JIM BROADBENT – Earl of Gloucester JIM CARTER – Earl of Kent TOBIAS MENZIES – Duke of Cornwall EMILY WATSON – Regan CREATIVES RICHARD EYRE – Adaptation and Director WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – Original Playwright STEPHEN WARBECK – Music BEN SMITHARD – Cinematography

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman on juggling Mean Girls and Dreamgirls Thursday, 6 December 2018 Throw a stone in the West End and you'll probably hit a Sonia Friedman production. With Dreamgirls , The Book of Mormon and Harry Potter and The Cursed Child among her current credits (and that really is naming just a few), the producer has a CV that speaks for itself. The 53-year-old has been described as the most powerful person in theatre by The Stage and named as one of Time's 100 most influential people. "She knows what audiences want to see, even before they do," said James Corden earlier this year. "As we spend more time on great digital experiences... we will start to crave great live experiences too. There is no one better to deliver them than Sonia Friedman." But, when speaking to BBC News, the producer plays down her own success. "These lists are great, I love it, and it's fun - for a moment. Literally a moment. And then you're back to the hard work," she says. "You're looking at me now, I've still got puffy eyes, I'm still exhausted, I'm still insecure, I'm still really worrying about what next, I still don't believe any of [the success] is real, because the thing that keeps me going is that this could end at any point. "I work on the basis that everything is going to go wrong. So that means most things don't go wrong because I'm always trying to circumvent it." The hard work Friedman refers to involves countless transatlantic trips, in order to keep her finger on the pulse of the theatre industry both on Broadway and in the West End. Indeed, one such flying visit to London early this year resulted in her seeing a show she would go on to transfer to the West End - Summer and Smoke . The play was on at the Almeida at the time, and after receiving a tip-off from her staff, Friedman used her only night off during her trip to see it. Relative to A Streetcar Named Desire or The Glass Menagerie , Summer and Smoke is one of Tennessee Williams's lesser known and more experimental plays. Set in Mississippi in summer, it tells the story of Alma, a nervy preacher's daughter, and her relationship with John - a young and angry neighbour whose scene is more sex and alcohol. "Summer and Smoke certainly doesn't belong in the top drawer of Tennessee Williams's plays," said Charles Spencer in The Telegraph when it was last performed in the West End in 2006. While critics generally praised the production itself, Michael Billington also noted in The Guardian the play was "not vintage Tennessee". Which perhaps raises the question of why it's been revived now, and indeed why Friedman earmarked it as having West End potential. "I think there's an assumption that if a Tennessee Williams play is not known, it means it's not good enough, or as good as his other works," Friedman says. "And I think what [director] Rebecca Frecknall has done is released the play through her expressionistic production. She's freed the play. "And I found it very inspiring, very moving, this play about body vs. soul, and how two people who have this incredible connection, can't come together." The latest production of the play has received a warm response from critics, with five star reviews from Time Out, The Telegraph and WhatsOnStage. So - let's get down to what a producer actually does. "I have two main roles," explains Friedman. "One is to have an idea, and to put together the creative team with the play, which might be a new play, a commission, an option, an adaptation or a revival. "The other side is the business model. The scale, the budget, the finance, the positioning, the marketing, the theatre, the timing, the scheduling, the staffing, the contracting, the negotiating." In the case of transfers, as opposed to works her company originates, Friedman says she tries not to interfere too much with the heart and soul of the original production. "I don't want to change what I've seen, because that's what I've seen and that's what I love. "My objective is for it to be even better than, more superlative, to move into the space, and for that new space to feel as natural as the original space." When she topped The Stage's power list in 2017, the newspaper's print editor Alistair Smith said the previous year's launch of Harry Potter had seen her career reach a different level. "Sonia Friedman has enjoyed a number of notable hits in recent years... but in 2016, she went stratospheric," he said. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was always likely to be a licence to print money. What has made it really special was that Friedman and her fellow creatives resisted the temptation to treat the production as a cash cow and created something truly magical, original and - above all - theatrical." In the US, one of Sonia's recent Broadway projects involved bringing Mean Girls to the stage - a 2004 movie starring Lindsay Lohan, which was partly based on Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees and Wannabes, a self-help book published in 2002. "That was really interesting to me because of the world we now live in, and social media. And how young girls are coping with the pressure to be perfect and the trolling and the bullying, even though it was set a long time before all of that," she says. "We worked with Tina Fey to update the book and that was what really excited me about the project; can a story that was so powerful to a generation before social media, still be relevant, and have the same poignancy? And it does." With so many shows to oversee, there's arguably a risk that quality is compromised. But, Friedman says: "I don't worry about quality control because that's the bit I'm involved in. "The area I miss having is that I'm less available to enjoy the good times. "I'm less available to pop in and out of the dressing rooms. To watch the shows multiple times. To go to cast drinks and parties. "And actually that's the great challenge of this phase of my career. I went into theatre to create families, to create companies, to immerse myself in other stories, and now I can't." Up Up

Back to Productions FAITH HEALER – BROADWAY This production began performances on 18th April and closed on 30th July 2006. Faith Healer is a masterpiece. A magnificent piece of storytelling. A gripping production that has you on the edge of your seat and wiping the tears from your eyes. Daily Telegraph Faith Healer tells the moving tale of dissolute, charasmatic Frank Hardy ( Fiennes ), his long-time lover ( Jones ) and his devoted manager ( McDiarmid ) as they travel the back roads of Scotland and Wales peddling miracles. As the three wrestle with Hardy's genuine but elusive gift for healing, they ask potent questions about who we trust, what we know and why we believe. Faith Healer offers the unique opportunity to see three of our finest actors on one stage and delights those with faith in the enduring power of live theatre. In the astonishing and mesmerising new Broadway production of Brian Friel's great play, Ralph Fiennes paints a portrait of an artist as dreamer and destroyer that feels so fresh. Rarely has his glamorous star shine been put to such powerful use. The New York Times Ralph Fiennes returns to Broadway - alongside Cherry Jones , fresh from her tour de force in Doubt - in Brian Friel 's Faith Healer , a spellbinding play in which each revelation upends all that has come before it. Faith Healer was mounted on Broadway in May 1979, starring James Mason and directed by Jose Quintero . In the quarter century since, several high-profile productions have established its critical standing as equal to that of Friel 's other masterworks Philadelphia , Here I Come and the Tony-winning Best Play Dancing at Lughnasa . Theatrical magic! Brian Friel's play is brilliantly evocative" The Guardian CAST RALPH FIENNES – Frank IAN MCDIARMID – Teddy CHERRY JONES – Grace CREATIVES BRIAN FRIEL – Playwright JONATHAN KENT – Director JONATHAN FEMSOM – Designer MARK HENDERSON – Lighting Designer

Back to News & Press Time Out's editors reveal their picks of the most influential people of 2011 Monday, 3 January 2011 Without her, audiences in London and New York might not have been moved and entertained by Mark Rylance’s era-defining turn in ‘Jerusalem’. In fact, Rylance wouldn’t have made his Tony-winning Broadway debut at all (in ‘Boeing Boeing’) had Friedman not insisted that he remain on board for the US transfer. She takes a risk on great drama even when it isn’t a safe bet at the box office, bringing Out of Joint’s 5* revival of Caryl Churchill’s 'Top Girls' into the West End this summer. In 2011 Friedman also took Katori Hall’s play about Martin Luther King, ‘The Mountaintop’ (which started life at Theatre 503, above a pub in Battersea) to Broadway, where Samuel L Jackson took the lead. Her fingerprints were all over quality big-name drama on the West End this year: Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Children’s Hour’ and Catherine Tate and David Tennant in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ - directed by rising star Josie Rourke. From ‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ to Tom Stoppard’s ‘Arcadia’, Friedman combines shrewd popular instincts with a dedication to championing good work. She brings the best of New York to London (watch this space for ‘The Book of Mormon’) and the best of the West End to Broadway. Producers determine the kind of theatre popular audiences get to see, and commercial producers are rarely celebrated, especially by Time Out – they can be conservative and out-of-touch with the cutting edge compared to our classy and powerful subsidised theatres. But when they get it right artistically as well as commercially – as Friedman so consistently does – then we should shout about it.' Read full article here . Up Up

Back to News & Press Shakespeares Globe Productions of Richad III & Twelfth Night to Transfer to West End Monday, 27 February 2012 Joining Rylance will be Stephen Fry as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Samuel Barnett and Johnny Flynn. Tickets for the 13 week run at the Apollo Theatre go on sale today (27 February 2012). Further casting will be announced shortly. Designs are by Jenny Tiramani and music is by Claire van Kampen who along with Tim Carroll are the creative team behind the Globe’s original 2002 version of Twelfth Night. The productions, which will be designed using original Shakespearian practices, will run at the Apollo Theatre from 2 November 2012 – 3 February 2013. Press day will be on Saturday 17 November 2012 (Richard III at 1.30pm, Twelfth Night at 7pm). Sonia Friedman Productions in association with Shakespeare Road, 1001 Nights and Tulchin/ Bartner Productions present Shakespeare’s Globe productions of Richard III and Twelfth Night. Up Up

Back to News & Press Last chance to see The Nether Thursday, 2 April 2015 The Headlong and Royal Court Theatre’s co-production of Jennifer Haley’s multi-award-winning play The Nether, produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman, will complete its limited run at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 25 April 2015 as previously announced. Jeremy Herrin’s critically acclaimed production of Haley’s piece of new writing transferred to the West End in January from the Royal Court Theatre where it premiered last year. More than 19,000 theatregoers have seen The Nether for under £20.50 thanks to the extension of accessible “off-West End” pricing and the production has received four nominations at the upcoming 2015 Olivier Awards: Best New Play, Best Set Design, Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The current West End cast of The Nether comprises David Calder (Doyle), Amanda Hale (Morris), Ivanno Jeremiah (Woodnut) and Stanley Townsend (Sims) who are joined by Jaime Adler, Perdita Hibbins and Isabella Pappas who alternate the role of Iris. From 13 April, David Beames returns to the production in the role of Doyle, which he previously played at the Royal Court Theatre. Set designs are by Es Devlin, with costume designs by Christina Cunningham, video design by Luke Halls, lighting by Paul Pyant, compositions by Nick Powell and sound by Ian Dickinson. The Nether offers complete freedom – a new virtual wonderland providing total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. An intricate crime drama and a haunting thriller set in the year 2050, The Nether follows an investigation into the complicated, disturbing morality of identity in the digital world, and explores the consequences of making dreams a reality Jennifer Haley’s other writing includes Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville at the 2008 Humana Festival, Breadcrumbs for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Sustainable Living written in the 2011-2012 CTG Writers’ Workshop and featured at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her play Froggy is in development with The Banff Centre and American Conservatory Theater. Haley’s plays have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73 and the MacDowell Colony. She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles where she founded a writing collective called the Playwrights Union. The Nether was the first play Jeremy Herrin directed for Headlong as Artistic Director. Previously he was Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 2009 until 2012 where his credits included No Quarter, Hero, Haunted Child, The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz, The Priory, Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face. Herrin directed the world premieres of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the Royal Shakespeare Company – the productions transferred to the West End in May 2014 and commenced on Broadway earlier this month. He was the recipient of the 2014 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for the productions. Herrin’s other recent credits include Another Country, Uncle Vanya and South Downs for Chichester Festival Theatre all of which transferred to the West End, This House for the National Theatre, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre and The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s Globe. Herrin’s production of David Hare’s The Absence of War opened at Sheffield Theatres earlier this year and is now on a UK tour. In a Headlong and Royal Court Theatre co-production, The Nether is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman in association with Tulchin Bartner Productions, Lee Dean & Charles Diamond, 1001 Nights, JFL Theatricals/GHF Productions, Scott & Brian Zeilinger/James Lefkowitz. The Nether is the latest in a number of collaborations between Sonia Friedman Productions and the Royal Court Theatre (Rock ‘n’ Roll, Clybourne Park, Jerusalem in the West End and The River on Broadway) and Headlong (1984 and Chimerica). Development of The Nether was supported by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference 2011, Preston Whiteway, Executive Director; Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director. Up Up

Back to Productions CHIMERICA This production began performances on 6th August and closed on 13th October 2013. ★★★★★ Epic, exhilarating, exceptional Daily Telegraph Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper more than 20 years later, Joe is driven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? What happened to him? And could he still be alive? ★★★★★ Lucy Kirkwood’s magnificent drama. A towering achievement Evening Standard The Headlong and Almeida Theatre's five-star sold-out co-production of Lucy Kirkwood 's new play Chimerica will play at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 6 August for a strictly limited 11-week run. Directed by Lyndsey Turner , Chimerica received its world premiere last month at the Almeida Theatre where it has subsequently been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Sonia Friedman Productions , Tulchin Bartner Productions , Jean Doumanian and the Almeida Theatre , in association with 1001 Nights , Scott M Delman , JFL Theatricals /Tanya Link Productions , Burnt Umber Productions , Michael Ostin , present The Headlong & Almeida Theatre co-production of “CHIMERICA ” by Lucy Kirkwood . ★★★★★ A dazzling, thoughtful, wonderfully ambitious drama Financial Times CAST STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE – Joe Schofield BENEDICT WONG – Zhang Lin CLAUDIE BLAKLEY – Tessa Kendrick ELIZABETH CHAN – Liuli/Jennifer VERA CHOK/WENDY KWEH – Michelle/Marcy Chang/Deng KARL COLLINS – David/Peter/Paul/Office Hyte TREVOR COOPER – Frank NANCY CRANE – Susanna Schofield SEAN GLIDER – Mel Stanwyck SARAH LAM/LIZ SUTHERLAND – Feng Meihiu/Ming Xiaoli ANDREW LEUNG – Young Zhang Lin/Benny DAVID K S TSE – Zhang Wei/Wang Pengsi ROSIE ARMSTRONG – Ensemble TINA CHIANG – Ensemble CHRIS HOLLNSHEAD – Ensemble MATH SAMS – Ensemble KEVIN SHEN – Ensemble CREATIVES LUCY KIRKWOOD – Playwright LYNDSEY TURNER – Director ES DEVLIN – Set Designer TIM LUTKIN – Lighting Designer CAROLYN DOWNING – Sound Designer FINN ROSS – Video Designer CHRISTINA CUNNINGHAM – Costume Designer

Back to News & Press Initial casting announced for the West End transfer of Oklahoma! Wednesday, 23 November 2022 Reprising their roles in the West End after appearing at the Young Vic are Raphael Bushay (Mike), Arthur Darvill (Curly McLain), James Patrick Davis (Will Parker), Stavros Demetraki (Ali Hakim), Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Rebekah Hinds (Gertie Cummings), Anoushka Lucas (Laurey Williams), Marie-Astrid Mence (Lead Dancer), Liza Sadovy (Aunt Eller) and Patrick Vaill (Jud Fry). Further casting for the show will be announced shortly. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at Wyndham’s Theatre will begin with previews on 16th February, with an opening night on 28th February, until 2nd September 2023. For more information and to book, click here . Up Up