Back to News & Press Stereophonic opens to rave reviews Saturday, 20 April 2024 Critics have been raving about Stereophonic following a triumphant opening night. Review highlights below: Naveen Kumar, The New York Times: Peering behind the mystique of rock ’n’ roll has undeniable voyeuristic appeal. So there is an immediate thrill to seeing the mahogany-paneled control room and glassed-in sound booth that fill the Golden Theater stage, where “Stereophonic” opened on Friday. But David Adjmi’s astonishing new play, with songs by the former Arcade Fire member Will Butler, delivers far more than a dishy glimpse inside the recording studio during rock’s golden age. Sara Holdren, Vulture: It’s also a stunning feat of scoring by Adjmi — whose hypernaturalistic script captures the ebb and flow of overlapping speech both inside and outside the studio’s sound room — and by director Daniel Aukin and composer Will Butler. Aukin and the show’s stellar cast play Adjmi’s rigorously constructed, deceptively casual prose with as much exactness and audacity as the actors, all playing their instruments live, pour into Butler’s songs: Smart, well-crafted tunes that blend the folk and blues and prog vibes of the ’70s with the soaring indie yearning of Butler’s former band, Arcade Fire. (There’s a cast album on the way.) The show is part concert and part breakup drama, part sound-design marvel (Ryan Rumery is the hero responsible) and part beautifully observed period piece (everyone’s legs look dynamite in Enver Chakartash’s bells and flares, and that lovingly intricate set is by David Zinn). But it’s the thing Adjmi conjures up at the end of Act One that makes Stereophonic such a meaningful and exceptional piece of work: In its bones, it’s a love song, bittersweet and wounded and ferociously loyal, to the act of making art — specifically, art that requires that most exhausting, infuriating, transcendent element: collaboration. Frank Rizzo, Variety: Audiences may feel the same way after seeing this work of theatrical virtuosity, realizing that all the tiny details, wild rhythms, and clever hooks presented on stage have added up to a work that is brave, purposeful, and rich. Adam Feldman, Time Out New York: David Adjmi’s intimately epic behind-the-music drama Stereophonic has now moved to Broadway after a hit fall run at Playwrights Horizons. At the smaller venue, the audience felt almost immersed in the room where the show takes place: a wood-paneled 1970s recording studio—decked out by set designer David Zinn as a plush vision of brown, orange, mustard, sage and rust—where a rock band is trying to perfect what could be its definitive album. Some fans of the play have wondered if it could work as well on a larger stage, but that question has a happy answer: Daniel Aukin’s superb production navigates the change without missing a beat. The jam has been preserved. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter: Funny, raw and poignant in equal measure, this expertly sculpted play has the feel of both a behind-the-music docudrama and a lost Robert Altman film, with its astute microcosmic focus, its frequent wash of overlapping dialogue and its sly nudges toward satire. In fact, while the music — fabulous original songs written by Will Butler, formerly of Arcade Fire — is pop-rock rather than country, Stereophonic could almost be an expanded vignette lifted right out of Nashville. Robert Hofler, The Wrap: Adjmi captures that claustrophobia and inability to communicate, making his “Stereophonic” one of the very best plays to open last year Off Broadway and now this season on Broadway. Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly: At over three hours long, Stereophonic never feels like too much. And the extended runtime works to the show’s advantage in that it puts the audience into marathon mode with the band itself as they approach a year of recording and re-recording. It’s a riveting, painful, funny, intense, toe-tapping journey, and the end result can best be described as solid gold. Joey Sims, Theatrely: For three glorious hours, Stereophonic drops its audience into a unique agony: the pursuit of artistic perfection. David Adjimi’s astounding new work, itself near-perfect, captures the wondrous highs and excruciating lows of the creative process with a hilarious, painstaking precision. You’ll want to live in this play forever. Gloria Oladipo, The Guardian: Stereophonic, one of Broadway’s most striking plays of the season, is an allegory of industry greed and artistry. But the play, as a work itself, serves as a triumphant example of what happens when art has the time to develop, to home in on the basics of craft, character and spirit. Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post: Still, “Stereophonic,” directed by Daniel Aukin, is undeniably transportive, and it’s a pleasure to be immersed in this creatively robust decade for a while. David Zinn’s neat set is the control room of a recording studio, with a soundproof booth upstage behind glass. It casually evokes the ‘70s without going full-blown “Brady Bunch” kitchen. Mark Kennedy, Associated Press: The play, which opened Friday at the Golden Theatre, is a hypernaturalistic meditation on the thrill, and also the danger, of collaborating on art — the compromises, the egos and the joys. It’s an ode not just to the music business but perhaps to the theater world, too. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune: Just before the end of playwright David Adjmi’s masterful “Stereophonic,” a three-hour dissection of ego, insecurity and the messy, messed-up gorgeousness of the creative process, I decided I’d had enough of these beautiful people in the recording studio with their complaints, their cocaine, their obsessive-compulsive neuroses, their phenomenal talents. A Zen-like “Let it be” had twisted in my skull to “Let me out.” And then I realized that was precisely what Adjmi wanted everyone at the Golden Theatre to be feeling at the final curtain. He’d just explained why great bands break up; why famous geniuses who seemingly have all the gifts, money, autonomy, adulation and sex that anyone could possibly want just can’t hold it together; why having a Billboard hit does not stop the childhood-driven imposter syndrome ringing inside your brain but actually makes it louder. Heck, I’ll go even further: He’d just explained why things end. Period. What a brilliant piece of must-see Broadway. It’s Chekhovian, babe. Jonathan Mandell, New York Theater: Watching this play by David Adjmi made me think of the last (and possibly the only other) play I’ve seen that was set in a recording studio, “Million Dollar Quartet,” not because there were any similarities between the two, but precisely because their differences made me realize how I could be impressed by the writing and acting in “Stereophonic” and still be disappointed by it. Melissa Rose Bernardo, New York Stage Review: A three-hour play about an unnamed 1970s band recording an album, set entirely in the recording studio: That’s, essentially, the elevator pitch for Stereophonic, which just opened on Broadway after a sold-out 10-week run at Playwrights Horizons in late 2023. But that doesn’t even begin to describe the genius on display at the Golden Theatre. Bob Verini, New York Stage Review: Playwright David Adjmi’s extensive resume has included an intimate portrait of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn (Stunning), a fanciful contempo take on Marie Antoinette, and 3C, a controversial sexed-up parody of the sitcom Three’s Company. Interesting work all around, but none of it prepares us for the hyperrealistic triumph that is Stereophonic, now at the Golden Theatre for a limited run after a similarly limited run at Playwrights Horizons. Allison Considine, New York Theatre Guide: The band is back together on Broadway. David Adjmi’s Stereophonic had a critically acclaimed, sold-out run off Broadway in fall 2023 at Playwrights Horizons, and now it’s hitting all the right notes at the Golden Theatre. Up Up

Back to News & Press Full cast announced for the West End run of Dr Semmelweis Sunday, 4 June 2023 The critically acclaimed Dr Semmelweis was originally developed by the National Theatre Studio and produced by Bristol Old Vic, opening on 20 January 2022 in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, the National Theatre, and Shakespeare Road. The play, in which Rylance reprises the title role, is written by Stephen Brown with Mark Rylance and is directed by Tom Morris. In a unique theatrical event, he and the cast are joined on stage by 10 ballet dancers and the Salome String Quartet. The company are: Roseanna Anderson (Marja Seidel/ Baroness Maria-Teresa), Zoe Arshamian (Dance Ensemble), Joshua Ben-Tovim (Hospital Porter/ Death), Ewan Black (Franz Arneth), Chrissy Brooke (Lisa Elstein), Megumi Eda (Aiko Eda), Suzy Halstead (Violet-May Blackledge), Felix Hayes (Ferdinand von Hebra), Pauline McLynn (Anna Müller), Jude Owusu (Jakob Kolletschka), Oxana Panchenko (Dance Ensemble), Millie Thomas (Agnes Barta), Max Westwell (Hospital Porter/ Death), Amanda Wilkin (Maria Semmelweis), Alan Williams (Johann Klein), Daniel York Loh (Karl von Rokitansky), Patricia Zhou (Dance Ensemble), and Helen Belbin , Jason Hogan , Andrew McDonald , with the Salomé Quartet - Haim Choi as Suk Hee Apfelbaum (Music Director/ Violin 1), Coco Inma n as Sarah Schmidt (Violin 2), Kasia Zimińska as Eszter Horowitz (Viola) and Shizuku Tatsuno as Oshizu Yukimura (Cello). Up Up

Back to Productions FUNNY GIRL This production began performances on 26th March and officially opened on 24th April 2022. The most thunderous standing ovation heard anywhere since theatres reopened. Los Angeles Times This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she’d never be a star, but then something funny happened—she became one of the most beloved performers in history, shining brighter than the brightest lights of Broadway. Vulnerable and invulnerable, kooky and ardent, Lea Michele lights up like a light. The New York Times FUNNY GIRL is back on Broadway for the first time in 58 years, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spring Awakening ). The sensational cast, starring Drama Desk Award nominee Lea Michele as Fanny Brice, Tony Award®️ nominee Ramin Karimloo , Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh and Jeff Award winner Jared Grimes , dazzles with the songs “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star,” and “People.” Lea Michele's triumphant performance is getting standing ovations and rave reviews. Vanity Fair CAST LEA MICHELE – Fanny Brice RAMIN KARIMLOO – Nick Arnstein TOVAH FELDSHUH – Mrs. Brice JARED GRIMES – Eddie Ryan CREATIVES MICHAEL MAYER – Director ELLENORE SCOTT – Choreographer AYODELE CASEL – Tap Choreographer JULE STYNE – Music BOB MERRIL – Lyrics ISOBEL LENNART – Book HARVEY FIERSTEIN – Revised Book DAVID ZINN – Scenic Designer SUSAN HILFERTY – Costume Designer KEVIN ADAMS – Lighting Designer BRIAN RONAN – Sound Designer

Back to News & Press Further casting announced for Shakespeare in Love Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Ian Bartholomew will play Tilney, Tony Bell will play Ralph, Anna Carteret will play Queen Elizabeth, Paul Chahidi will play Henslowe, David Ganley will play Burbage, Richard Howard will play Sir Robert De Lesseps, Harry Jardine will play Sam, Abigail McKern will play Nurse, David Oakes will play Marlowe, Patrick Osborne will play Mr Wabash, Alistair Petrie will play Wessex,Doug Rao will play Ned Alleyn, Ferdy Roberts will play Fennyman and Colin Ryan will play John Webster. They are joined by an ensemble including Daisy Boulton, Ryan Donaldson, Janet Fullerlove, Sandy Murray, Timothy O’Hara, Thomas Padden, Elliott Rennie, Charlie Tighe andTim Van Eyken who will also be musical director. Gaiety will play Crab the dog. Further casting is still to be announced. They join the previously announced Tom Bateman who will play Will Shakespeare and Lucy Briggs-Owen who will play Viola De Lesseps. Based on the Academy Award®-winning screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard,Shakespeare in Love has been adapted for the stage by Lee Hall (Billy Elliot). Featuring a company of 30 actors and musicians, this new play will be directed by Declan Donnellan and designed by Nick Ormerod, the driving force behind the world-renowned theatre company, Cheek by Jowl. Shakespeare in Love will be produced by Disney and Sonia Friedman Productions. Shakespeare in Love has its world premiere at the Noël Coward Theatre on Wednesday 23 July 2014, with previews from 2 July. Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will to write the greatest love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet. This sweeping romantic comedy will transport you back to Shakespeare’s London, teeming with vibrant colours, characters, music and life. Oh, and there’s a bit with a dog! Up Up

Back to News & Press Rehearsals begin for new West End cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two Monday, 20 March 2017 Jamie Glover will play Harry Potter with Emma Lowndes as his wife Ginny Potter and Theo Ancient as their son Albus Potter. Thomas Aldridge will play Ron Weasley with Rakie Ayola as Hermione Granger and Helen Aluko as their daughter Rose Granger-Weasley. Playing Draco Malfoy will be James Howard with Samuel Blenkin as his son Scorpius Malfoy. They are joined by new cast members David Annen , Ruthxjiah Bellenea , Danny Dalton , Leah Haile , Rupert Henderson , Elizabeth Hill , April Hughes , James McGregor , Sarah Miele , Jordan Paris , James Phoon , Henry Rundle , Ged Simmons , Mark Theodore , Gideon Turner and Ed White . Original cast members Nicola Alexis , Rosemary Annabella , Phoebe Austen , Annabel Baldwin , Jabez Cheeseman , Morag Cross , Esme Grace , Lowri James , Martin Johnston , Alfred Jones , Barry McCarthy , Sandy McDade , Tom Mackley , Harrison Noble , Ben Roberts , Nuno Silva , Hope Sizer and Joshua Wyatt complete the 42-strong company playing a variety of characters, including seven children who will alternate two roles.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The critically acclaimed production received its world premiere in June 2016 at the Palace Theatre and is now the recipient of thirteen theatre awards including the Evening Standard Best Play Award. Earlier this month it was announced that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was nominated for a record-breaking eleven Olivier awards, making it the most nominated new play in Olivier history. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is currently booking to 29 April 2018. The next advance ticket release will take place on 25 April 2017. Tickets are priced from £15 per part and for every performance there are over 300 tickets at £20 or less per part. Further ticket releases will be announced throughout the year, details of which will published via the official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child website, social media channels and the official newsletter. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. Jamie Glover (Harry Potter) was last on stage in What’s in a Name? for Birmingham Repertory Theatre. His other theatre credits include The Rehearsal , An Ideal Husband and If Only all for Chichester Festival Theatre, Donkeys’ Years at the Rose Theatre Kingston, Noises Off at the Old Vic and Novello Theatre in the West End, The Chalk Garden for the Donmar Warehouse, The Shawl and The Man Who Had All the Luck both for Sheffield Crucible, The Novice for the Almeida Theatre and The Invention of Love for the Theatre Royal Haymarket. For the Royal Shakespeare Company his credits include All’s Well That Ends Well , The Roman Actor and Edward III . On film his credits include These Foolish Things , Sacred Life and Age of Treason . He is best known on television for playing Andrew Treneman in Waterloo Road and James Lacey in Agatha Raisin , and has also been seen in Endeavour and Doctor Who: An Adventure in Space and Time . Emma Lowndes ’ (Ginny Potter) many television credits include Bella Gregson in Cranford , Mary Rivers in Jane Eyre and Margie Drewe in Downton Abbey . She can soon be seen as Carla Davis in Channel 4’s The Trial . Her theatre credits include The Herbal Bed at the Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton, Children of the Sun and Thérèse Raquin for the National Theatre, The Accrington Pals , Port , The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and The Seagull for the Royal Exchange Theatre and Whose Life is it Anyway? at the Comedy Theatre. On film her credits include Mother’s Milk and All or Nothing . Theo Ancient (Albus Potter) trained at RADA and will make his professional stage debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child . Thomas Aldridge (Ron Weasley) is currently appearing in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre. His previous theatre credits include The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for Birmingham Rep, Made in Dagenham at the Adelphi Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew for the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, The Secret Garden and Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure for West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep, His Dark Materials on UK tour, Only the Brave for Soho Theatre, and High Society at the Shaftesbury Theatre. His television credits include Undercover , Titanic , Call the Midwife , Silent Witness , Hope and Glory and The Support Group . His film credits include Flea and Blasted . Rakie Ayola (Hermione Granger) was last on stage in The Rest of Your Life at the Bush Theatre. Her previous theatre credits include King Lear at the Royal Exchange Theatre where she played Goneril, Crave/4.48 Psychosis for Sheffield Crucible, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Apollo Theatre, Dido Queen of Carthage for the Globe Theatre, The Winter’s Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Welcome to Thebes for the National Theatre. Her television credits include No Offence , Vera , Under Milk Wood , Black Mirror , Doctor Who , Silent Witness and Holby City . Her film credits include Been So Long , Dredd , Now is Good and Sahara . Helen Aluko (Rose Granger-Weasley) is an original member of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child company. Her previous theatre credits include Doctor Faustus for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Once Language , Many Voices for TNT, The Price for Walking Forward, The Wind in the Willows for Sixteen Feet Productions and Beauty and the Beast at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Her television credits include The Driver . James Howard (Draco Malfoy) is an original member of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child company. His previous theatre credits include Brave New World for Northampton Theatre Royal, Romeo and Juliet , As You Like It , Mojo , King Lear and Morte D’Arthur for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Twelfth Night and Ivanov for Donmar Warehouse and The Duchess of Malfi for the National Theatre. His television credits include Black Mirror , Dark Matters , Skins , Spooks , Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Dream Team . On film his credits include Survivor , The Theory of Everything , The Oxford Murders and Penelope . Samuel Blenkin (Scorpius Malfoy) trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and also makes his professional stage debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child . Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling , Jack Thorne and John Tiffany , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne , directed by John Tiffany with movement by Steven Hoggett , set by Christine Jones , costumes by Katrina Lindsay , music & arrangements by Imogen Heap , lighting by Neil Austin , sound by Gareth Fry , illusions & magic by Jamie Harrison , music supervision & arrangements by Martin Lowe and casting by Julia Horan CDG. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one play presented in two parts. Both parts are intended to be seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening) or on two consecutive evenings. On Thursdays there is an evening performance of Part One and on Fridays an evening performance of Part Two. On those days tickets to each part can be bought together or separately. Tickets for Wednesday matinee and Wednesday evening performances can also be bought together or separately. The regular performance schedule is as follows - Monday – no performance, Tuesday – no performance, Wednesday - 2pm Part One & 7.30pm Part Two, Thursday – 7.30pm Part One, Friday – 7.30pm Part Two, Saturday – 2pm Part One & 7.30pm Part Two, Sunday – 1pm Part One & 6.30pm Part Two. Every Friday, The Friday Forty takes place at 1pm when 40 tickets are released for every performance the following week for some of the very best seats in the theatre. Subsequent ticket releases take place each Friday for performances the following week. Priced at £40 (£20 per part) tickets will secure a seat for both Part One and Part Two on consecutive performances. Customers will be selected at random for the opportunity to buy tickets online and will be able to purchase a maximum of two tickets for both Part One and Part Two in one transaction. To ensure that as many people as possible have the chance to access these tickets, they will only be available to buy online www.harrypottertheplay.com/ticket-information Returned and other late-release tickets may also become available at short notice. These are not guaranteed, but any tickets that do become available will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis, online or in person at the Palace Theatre box office at full price. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions , Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions . Photograph credit: The full company for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from 24 May 2017. Photography by Manuel Harlan. Up Up

Back to News & Press Drama Desk nominations announced Monday, 3 May 2010 The nominations for the 2009-10 Drama Desk Awards were announced yesterday, with LA CAGE AUX FOLLES receiving 7 nominations and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE both receiving 3 nominations: Outstanding Revival of a Play A View From the Bridge Outstanding Revival of a Musical A Little Night Music La Cage aux Folles Outstanding Actor in a Play Liev Schreiber, A View From the Bridge Outstanding Actor in a Musical Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles Outstanding Actress in a Musical Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Scarlett Johansson, A View From the Bridge Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Robin de Jesus, La Cage aux Folles Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music Outstanding Director of a Musical Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles Outstanding Choreography Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles Outstanding Costume Design Matthew Wright, La Cage aux Folles Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical Jonathan Deans, La Cage aux Folles It was also announced that Jerry Herman would be honoured with a special award for "enchanting and dazzling audiences with his exuberant music and heartfelt lyrics for more than half a century". Up Up

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman on ‘What does the BBC mean to you?’ Sunday, 20 February 2022 Sonia Friedman and others tackle some difficult questions about the corporation’s prospects to mark its centenary.What does the BBC mean to you? Sonia Friedman, theatre impresario ‘The BBC is our constant. It makes me feel safe. It ensures an uninterrupted, essential thread runs through our media, news, culture, keeping us interconnected, across space and around the clock. It’s at its best when it puts storytellers at its centre, and if it remains committed to and captivated by this country’s unique creative culture, it will be with us for another 100 years.’ Read the full article here ›› Up Up

Back to News & Press Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to be presented in two parts Thursday, 24 September 2015 Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play by Jack Thorne will receive its world premiere in London’s West End at the Palace Theatre in the summer of 2016. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, written by Jack Thorne and directed by Olivier and Tony award winner John Tiffany, is one play presented in two parts which are intended to be seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening) or on two consecutive evenings. On sale details as well as the performance schedule and further production information will be announced in the coming weeks. Patrons may sign up for priority access to tickets at the official production website only - www.HarryPotterthePlay.com Movement is by Steven Hoggett, with set designs by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, special effects by Jeremy Chernick, illusions by Jamie Harrison and musical supervision is by Martin Lowe. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions. Up Up

Back to Productions THE INHERITANCE This production first began performances on 21st September 2018 and closed on 19th January 2019. ★★★★★ Perhaps the most important American play of the century The Telegraph A generation after the peak of the AIDs crisis, what is it like to be a young gay man in New York? How many words are there now for pain and for love? Stephen Daldry's ‘remarkably involving production’ (Independent) explores profound themes through the turbulent and often hilarious experiences of a group of young, ambitious New Yorkers. What is the legacy left to them by previous generations? What do they owe the future and each other? ★★★★★ Witty, outrageous and piercingly vivid Evening Standard Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at the Young Vic, Matthew Lopez ’s major two-part world premiere The Inheritance lands in London's West End for just fifteen weeks. Directed by multi-Olivier Award winner Stephen Daldry , this ‘monumental and transcendent' (Time Out ) production questions how much we owe to those who lived and loved before us. Spanning generations and interlinking lives, The Inheritance is ‘an exquisitely truthful and funny modern classic’ (Telegraph ) that brilliantly transposes EM Forster’s novel ‘Howard’s End’ to 21st-century New York. ★★★★★ An extraordinary epic event Sunday Times CAST HUGO BOLTON ROBERT BOULTER ANDREW BURNAP JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY PAUL HILTON SAMUEL H. LEVINE SYRUS LOWE MICHAEL MARCUS JACK RIDDIFORD KYLE SOLLER MICHAEL WALTERS VANESSA REDGRAVE CREATIVES MATTHEW LOPEZ – Playwright STEPHEN DALDRY – Director BOB CROWLEY – Designer JOHN CLARK – Lighting Designer PAUL ARDITTI & CHRIS REID – Sound Designer PAUL ENGLISHBY – Music JULIAN HORAN CDG – UK Casting JORDAN THALER CSA & HEIDI GRIFFITHS CSA – US Casting

Back to News & Press "STEREOPHONIC" extends by popular demand Monday, 22 April 2024 Fresh off the heels of opening night, Sue Wagner , John Johnson , Seaview , Sonia Friedman Productions , Linden Productions , and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills are proud to announce that the season's most critically acclaimed new play, David Adjmi 's Stereophonic , will extend due to popular demand. Originally scheduled to run for only 14 weeks, the production will now play its final performance on August 18, 2024. On Friday, April 19, Stereophonic opened on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, and played a one-time-only encore for invited guests. The performance included Academy Award® nominee and Grammy Award® winner Will Butler , the composer of the original songs featured in the show. Stereophonic is directed by Daniel Aukin . On hand to celebrate the opening were J. Smith-Cameron , Ani DiFranco , Common , Andrew Wyatt , Clyde Lawrence , Rachel Brosnahan , Alex Edelman , Amber Gray , Marin Ireland , Justin Peck , Lynn Nottage , Sammy Rae Bowers , Louisa Jacobson , David Rasche , Stark Sands , Miriam Silverman , and many more. It was also recently announced that Stereophonic will release an original cast recording through Sony Masterworks Broadway. The digital album arrives May 10, 2024, with the physical CD release set for June 14. The album is available for preorder now. Direct from its smash hit world premiere engagement at Playwrights Horizons, Stereophonic is directed by Daniel Aukin and dominated the "Best Theater of 2023" lists, with top rankings in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Time Out New York, Town & Country, TheaterMania, Theaterly, and The Spectator. The cast, reprising their highly lauded performances, includes Will Brill as Reg, Andrew R. Butler as Charlie, Juliana Canfield as Holly, Eli Gelb as Grover, Tom Pecinka as Peter, Sarah Pidgeon as Diana, and Chris Stack as Simon. Tickets on-sale now at StereophonicPlay.com . In his Critic's Pick review, Naveen Kumar of The New York Times exclaimed, "The play is a staggering achievement, and already feels like a must-see American classic." Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on 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 spark 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. The Stereophonic creative team includes David Zinn (scenic designer), Enver Chakartash (costume designer), Jiyoun Chang (lighting designer), Ryan Rumery (sound designer), Justin Craig (music director), and Gigi Buffington (voice, text, and dialect coach). Casting is by Alaine Alldaffer and Taylor Williams, CSA . Up Up

Back to Productions BETRAYAL This production began performances on 27th May and closed 20th August 2011. Magnificent. Rickson’s production is the finest I have seen of Pinter’s masterpiece. The depth and passion of Pinter at his finest… The acting is virtuously flawless. Daily Telegraph Sometimes you’ll find there can be three people in a marriage… Over a period of nine years, we are shown the high price of passion and the damage inflicted by desire. Harold Pinter’s play explores how our loves and our losses echo and accumulate through time. Kristin Scott Thomas takes your breath away. A must-see production. Mail on Sunday “I’ve always rather liked Jerry. To be honest, I’ve always liked him rather more than I’ve liked you. Maybe I should have had an affair with him myself.” Robert, Betrayal Sonia Friedman Productions in association with Robert G. Bartner and Norman Tulchin , 1001 Nights , Max Cooper , Scott M. Delman , Rupert Gavin and Scott & Brian Zeilinger/ Richard Winkler presents “BETRAYAL ”. Beautifully written… Beautifully lucid and perceptive revival. Excellent performances. The Guardian CAST KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – Emma DOUGLAS HENSHALL – Jerry BEN MILES – Robert CREATIVES IAN RICKSON – Director JERMY HERBERT – Designer JOHANNA TOWN – Lighting STEPHEN WARBECK – Music IAN DICKINSON – Sound

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman Productions announce the world premiere of Tom Stoppard's new play Leopoldstadt Tuesday, 25 June 2019 Previewing at Wyndham’s Theatre from 25 January 2020, Leopoldstadt will run for 16 weeks only until 16 May 2020 with opening night on 12 February 2020. Public booking will open on 28 June 2019 at 10am for this strictly limited run, and tickets will be available from £15. To sign up for priority booking and to register interest please visit leopoldstadtplay.com . Full creative team and casting to be announced at a later date. Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying life. A tenth of the population were Jews. A generation earlier they had been granted full civil rights by the Emperor, Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of thousands fled from the Pale and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt. Tom Stoppard ’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber , is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good. “My grandfather wore a caftan,” says Hermann, a factory owner, “my father went to the opera in a top hat, and I have the singers to dinner.” It was not to last. Over the next 50 years this family, like millions of others, was to re-discover what it meant to be Jewish in the first half of the 20th century. Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, endurance and loss. It is Stoppard’s most humane and heart-breaking play. Leopoldstadt , the sixth collaboration between SFP and Tom Stoppard , reunites Stoppard , Marber and Friedman who last collaborated on Travesties in 2017. Internationally award-winning writer Tom Stoppard ’s plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , The Real Inspector Hound , After Magritte , Jumpers , New Found Land , Dogg’s Hamlet , Cahoot’s , Macbeth , Travesties , Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with (André Previn), Night and Day , The Real Thing , Hapgood , Arcadia , Indian Ink , The Invention of Love , The Coast of Utopia , Rock ‘n’ Roll and, most recently, The Hard Problem . His radio plays include Albert’s Bridge , Artist Descending a Staircase , The Dog It Was That Died , If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank , and most recently, his dramatic imagining of Pink Floyd’s ‘Darkside of the Moon’, Darkside . As well as for the stage and radio, Stoppard is an award-winning writer for film and television. Patrick Marber ’s directing credits of his own work include Dealer’s Choice at the National Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre, After Miss Julie for BBC TV, Closer at the National Theatre, Lyric and Music Box, New York, Howard Katz and Three Days in the Country also at the National Theatre and Don Juan in Soho at Wyndham’s Theatre. His other directing credits include The Room as part of the Pinter at the Pinter Season, Venus In Fur at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Travesties at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Apollo Theatre and The American Airlines Theater, New York, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Director, The Caretaker at the Comedy Theatre, Blue Remembered Hills at the National Theatre, ‘1953’ at the Almeida and The Old Neighborhood at the Royal Court Theatre. Marber ’s plays, which have received multiple awards both in the West End and on Broadway, include Dealer’s Choice , After Miss Julie , Closer , Howard Katz , Three Days in the Country , The Red Lion and a version of Hedda Gabler . He is also an award-winning screenwriter and his film credits include Closer and Notes on a Scandal . Up Up