Back to Productions THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Following huge critical acclaim at the National Theatre, this production opened in the West End in September 2025 and is running until February 2026. ★★★★★ 'A sparkling new production... that's fiercely faithful to Wilde's wickedly subversive spirit' Daily Mail BOOK HERE. The National Theatre's sold-out production of The Importance of Being Earnest transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre this Autumn, in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions . Olly Alexander (It’s A Sin ) plays Algernon Moncrieff in director Max Webster ‘s (Donmar’s Macbeth ; Life of Pi ) joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s ‘glittering masterpiece’ (Telegraph ), a hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance. ★★★★ 'Oscar Wilde's glittering masterpiece' The Telegraph Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate. ★★★★★ 'An anarchically camp rewilding of Wilde' Time Out CAST OLLY ALEXANDER – Algernon Moncrieff NATHAN STEWART-JARRETT - Jack Worthing HUGH DENNIS - Reverend Canon Chausuble SHOBNA GULATI - Miss Prism KITTY HAWTHORNE - Gwendolen Fairfax JESSICA WHITEHURST - Cecily Cardew HAYLEY CARMICHAEL - Lane/Merriman STEPHEN FRY - Lady Bracknell JASMINE KERR - Ensemble / Understudy Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew SAM LIU - Ensemble / Understudy Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff GILLIAN MCCAFFERTY - Ensemble / Understudy Lady Bracknell and Miss Prism ELLIOT PRITCHARD - Ensemble / Understudy Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing LIV SPENCER - Ensemble / Understudy Reverend Canon Chasuble and Merriman/Lane CREATIVES MAX WEBSTER – Director RAE SMITH – Set & Costume Designer JON CLARK – Lighting Designer NICOLA T. CHANG – Sound Designer CARRIE-ANNE INGROUILLE – Movement Director DJ WALDE – Composer JOYCE ANDERSON – Physical Comedy Advisor INGRID MACKINNON – Intimacy Coordinator ALASTAIR COOMER CGD – Casting Director HAZEL HOLDER – Dialect Coach SHEREEN IBRAHIM – Voice Coach

Back to Productions WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR This productions begins performances on 7th November 2002 and closed on 22nd February 2003. Two lovers, both married, meet again in a hotel room. The result: one passionate night of honesty and deceit, hope and regret. Uncompromising in its attitude towards modern marriage and infidelity, WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR directly addresses the question: Is the person you are with the right one? Or are they still out there, living another life? Gillian Anderson (The House of Mirth, X Files ) makes her West End debut alongside Roger Allam (this year's Olivier Best Actor Award for Privates on Parade ; Art, RSC and RNT) in WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR , a new play by the American writer Michael Weller . CAST GILLIAN ANDERSON – Melinda Metz ROGER ALLAM – Adam Penzius CREATIVES MICHAEL WELLER – Playwright JOHN CAIRD – Director TIM HATLEY – Designer PAUL PYANT – Lighting Designer RICH WALSH – Sound Designer

Back to News & Press San Francisco's Curran to host the West Coast Premiere of the critically-acclaimed play The Jungle Tuesday, 1 January 2019 Under the direction of Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin , the strictly limited engagement begins Tuesday March 26, 2019 and will run through Sunday, May 19, 2019. Tickets for The Jungle are $25—$165 and go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, with presale access available for Curran subscribers. Tickets will be available at SFCURRAN.com/jungle. $25 day-of rush tickets to The Jungle will be made available through a partnership with TODAY TIX. Meet the hopeful, resilient residents of The Jungle – the short-lived, self-governing society that emerged within a sprawling refugee camp in Calais, France. Join the residents over freshly baked naan and sweet milky chai at the Afghan Café. Take a seat where men, women and children fleeing war and persecution created a world offering warm hospitality, amidst squalor and danger. After taking London and New York by storm, THE JUNGLE arrives on the West Coast transforming the traditional proscenium theater into Miriam Buether’s award-winning set design as seen in the West End. This “devastating, uplifting show” (The Guardian) is “a story we need to hear” (Time Out London). “Thrilling... ravishing... devastating…it feels as if all the world is holding its breath. Vigorously engrossing production…” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times). The majority of the New York cast will transfer with the production, including actors from refugee backgrounds, some of whom came through the Jungle. Full casting to be announced. "By putting such a heartbreakingly human face on a story too often told through statistics, THE JUNGLE manages to provide us with both an incredible evening of theater and a moral imperative for our times,” said Carole Shorenstein Hays. “It is precisely the show America needs right now, as we struggle mightily to harness the collective strength of our better selves. Let the dialogue begin, Bay Area!" Founded by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson , Good Chance Theatre works to promote freedom of expression, creativity, and dignity for everyone. Murphy and Robertson established Good Chance’s first temporary theater space, an 11m geodesic dome, in the heart of the refugee and migrant camp in Calais in September 2015, where they lived for seven months before writing The Jungle after the demolition of the camp. “The Jungle was a reluctant home for thousands of people from all over the world. It was a place where people built temporary lives and communities formed out of necessity. People who visited asked why we built a theater in a refugee camp, but it’s always seemed clear to us that theater should be at the center of the conversation,” said Robertson and Murphy. “We’re thrilled to bring this play to West Coast audiences with its premiere at the historic Curran and look forward to sharing these timely and important stories.” "Audiences will be plunged emotionally and physically into the world of the camp in Calais—a place I have visited several times. The combination of the setting, extraordinary performances and storytelling is a real gut punch that leaves each and every audience member utterly transformed,” said Sonia Friedman . “I am so happy that we have the opportunity to bring The Jungle to the Curran, and retain the show’s uniqueness and intimacy." The creative team for The Jungle includes Miriam Buether (Set), Catherine Kodicek (Costume), Jon Clark (Lighting), Paul Arditti (Sound), John Pfumojena (Composition), Duncan McLean & Tristan Shepherd (Video), Julia Horan CGD (Casting) and David Lan (Executive Producer). The Jungle was commissioned by the National Theatre and first presented at the Young Vic Theatre on December 7, 2017 in a co-production by the National Theatre and the Young Vic with Good Chance Theatre . The Jungle opened in the West End at the Playhouse Theatre on Saturday, June 16, 2018, presented by Sonia Friedman Productions and Tom Kirdahy , Hunter Arnold in association with Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik , Gary & Marcia Nelson , UshkowitzLatimer Productions , Paula Marie Black , Tulchin Bartner Productions , Michael DeSantis , 1001 Nights Productions , Rupert Gavin , Brenda Leff , Stephanie P. McClelland , Richard Winkler , Jane Cee & Glenn Redbord . The Jungle received its North American Premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse on Tuesday, December 4, 2018, a Good Chance Theatre co-production with the National Theatre and Young Vic, presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse with support from JKW Foundation, Good Chance Theatre, SHS Foundation, Curtis Cravens & Martha Berry, Jolie & Gabriel Schwartz, Antonia & David Belt, Nancy & Chad Dickerson, Leyli Zohrenejad, Alexander Leff. Up Up

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman talks to Kirsty Lang for BBC Radio 4’s Front Row Saturday, 26 March 2016 This year, Sonia Friedman Productions has been nominated for a total of 20 Olivier Awards across the company’s critically acclaimed productions of Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Farinelli And The King, Oresteia and Bend It Like Beckham. Sonia Friedman has also supported the Good Chance Theatre in the Jungle camp in Calais. During her career, Sonia Friedman has worked with some of the world’s greatest actors, directors and writers on more than 140 productions. Here, Tom Stoppard, Mark Rylance and Richard Eyre share some of their memories of meeting and working with one of the West End’s most prolific and successful producers. Click here to listen to Sonia’s interview with Kirsty in full. Up Up

Back to News & Press Funny Girl to be screened on Sky Arts this Christmas Wednesday, 19 December 2018 The smash-hit production starring Sheridan Smith played to critical acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory, in the West End, and on tour. Michael Mayer ’s production was filmed during the final week of its run at the Manchester Palace Theatre by Digital Theatre, before being screened in cinemas nationwide in October. Darius Campbell played Nick Arnstein to Smith ’s Fanny Brice, and they were joined by Nigel Barber (Florenz Ziegfeld), Zoë Ann Bown (Mrs. Meeker), Martin Callaghan (Mr. Keeney), Jennifer Harding (Emma), Rachel Izen (Mrs Brice), Joshua Lay (Eddie) and Myra Sands (Mrs. Strakosh); with Rhianne Alleyne, Kit Benjamin, Lloyd Davies, Flora Dawson, Joseph Dockree , Abigayle Honeywill, Brontë Lavine, David Mcintosh, Peter Nash, Gillian Parkhouse, Tom Partridge, Nova Skipp, Alexandra Waite-Roberts, Sam Wingfield and Alexandra Wright . Choreography is by Lynne Page , with set design by Michael Pavelka , costume design by Matthew Wright , lighting design by Mark Henderson and sound design by Richard Brooker , musical supervisor and arrangements by Alan Williams and orchestrations by Chris Walker . Tune in to Sky Arts this Sunday 23 October at 8pm to watch this production on television for the first time. Up Up

Back to Productions TWELFTH NIGHT & RICHARD III This production began performances on 2nd November 2012 and closed on 10th February 2013. Rylance back doing what he does best. Refreshing, challenging. A crowning glory Daily Telegraph Twelfth Night Outrageous high comedy ensues as the pangs of unrequited love affect the unforgettable characters of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. While the lovelorn Duke Orsino plots to win the heart of the mourning Olivia ( Mark Rylance ), an alliance of servants and hangers-on scheme against the high-handedness of Olivia’s steward, the pompous Malvolio ( Stephen Fry ). When Orsino engages the cross-dressed Viola ( Samuel Barnett ), who has disguised herself as a young man under the name Cesario, to plead with Olivia on his behalf, a bittersweet and hilarious chain of events follows. Richard III Richard Duke of Gloucester ( Mark Rylance ) is determined that he should wear the crown of England. He has already dispatched one king and that king’s son; now all that stands in his way are two credulous brothers and two helpless nephews – the Princes in the Tower. And woe betide those – the women he wrongs, the henchmen he betrays – who dare to raise a voice against him. Monstrous, but theatrically electric, Richard is Shakespeare’s most charismatic, self-delighting villain, revelling at every moment in his homicidal, hypocritical journey to absolute power. Star’s crooked King is a captivating crowd-pleaser Evening Standard Sonia Friedman Productions in association with Shakespeare Road Productions , 1001 Nights , Bob Bartner & Norman Tulchin , Rupert Gavin and Adam Blanshay present Shakespeare's Globe production of “TWELFTH NIGHT ” & “RICHARD III ”. His genius is in its element. Fit for a king The Independent CAST RICHARD III MARK RYLANCE – Richard III LIAM BRENNAN – Clarence/Lord Mayor PETER HAMILTON DYER – Brakenbury/Catesby PAUL CHAHIDI – Hastings/Tyrrell JOSEPH TIMMS – Lady Anne Grey TERRY MCGINTY – River/Scrivener/Blunt/Holy Man SAMUEL BARNETT – Queen Elizabeth MATT HARRINGTON – Dorset/Bishop of Ely/Guard ANGUS WRIGHT – Duke of Buckingham JETHRO SKINNER – Murderer 1/ Cardinal/Ratcliff/Halberdier/Guard COLIN HURLEY – King Edward IV/Stanley KURT EGYIAWAN – Duchess of York/Richmond MATTHEW SCHECHTER – Prince Edward HAYDN SIGNORETTI – Duke of York TWELFTH NIGHT LIAN BRENNAN – Orsino MATT HARRINGTON – Curio/Officer/Olivia's Servant KURT EGYIAWAN – Valentine/Officer SAMUEL BARNETT – Viola TERRY MCGINTY – Sea Captain/Priest COLIN HURLEY – Sir Toby Belch PAUL CHAHIDI – Maria ANGUS WRIGHT – Sir Andrew Aguecheek HAMILTON DYER – Feste Peter MARK RYLANCE – Olivia STEPHEN FRY – Malvolio PAUL CONNOLLY – Antonio John JOSEPH TIMMS – Sebastan JETHRO SKINNER – Fabian CREATIVES TIM CARROLL – Director JENNY TIRAMANI – Designer CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN – Music DAVD PLATER – Lighting

Back to News & Press Consent to transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in May 2018 Monday, 12 March 2018 Directed by Roger Michell and originally co-produced and commissioned by Out of Joint , Consent will begin previews at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 18 May for a strictly limited 12-week run. Opening night will take place on 29 May with booking through to 11 August 2018. Tickets for this West End transfer - with over 14,000 priced at £25 or under - will go on public sale on Thursday 15 March 2018 at 10am. The cast includes Claudie Blakley, Stephen Campbell Moore, Heather Craney and Adam James with further casting to be announced. Set is by Hildegard Bechtler , with costumes by Dinah Collin, lighting by Rick Fisher , music by Kate Whitley , sound by John Leonard and casting by Amy Ball CDG . Nina Raine’s ‘blistering new play’ (New York Times), directed by Roger Michell, makes a triumphant and timely transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre this May, following a sold out season at the National Theatre. Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends take opposing briefs in a contentious legal case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged. This ‘tense, entertaining modern-day tragi-comedy’ (Daily Telegraph) takes a searing look at the law whilst putting modern relationships into the dock. Nina Raine ’s other plays include Tiger Country, Rabbit and Tribes as well as an adaptation of The Drunks by the Durnenkov Brothers. She was shortlisted for the 2004 Verity Bargate Award and awarded the 2006 Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play Rabbit. Tribes won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play and has been performed in eighteen different countries. Nina has been nominated for a Susan Blackburn Smith Award for Consent . Roger Michell ’s many productions include Waste, Landscape with Weapon, Honour, Blue/Orange, Under Milk Wood, The Homecoming and The Coup all for the National Theatre, Farewell to the Theatre and Some Sunny Day both for Hampstead Theatre, Rope for the Almeida Theatre, Tribes and Birthday both for the Royal Court, Betrayal, Old Times and My Night with Reg for the Donmar Warehouse, the latter transferring to the Apollo Theatre in the West End. Michell’s film credits include My Cousin Rachel, Le Week-End, Hyde Park on Hudson, Morning Glory, Venus, Enduring Love, The Mother, Changing Lanes, Persuasion, My Night With Reg, Titanic Town and Notting Hill. On television his credits include The Buddha of Suburbia, Downtown Lagos, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, Birthday, Ready When You Are, Mr Patel and Michael Redgrave – My Father. Claudie Blakley ’s theatre credits include Once in a Lifetime for the Young Vic, The Painkiller at the Garrick Theatre, Chimerica for the Almeida Theatre and in the West End, Rules for Living , The Cherry Orchard, Comedy of Errors, Attempts on Her Life and Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are Dead for the National Theatre, Macbeth and Lear for the Sheffield Crucible, Di and Viv and Rose and The Good Samaritan for the Hampstead Theatre, Love and Money for the Young Vic and Royal Exchange, All’s Well That Ends Well for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Kosher Harry for the Royal Court, The Lady from the Sea for the Almeida and Billy & the Crab for Soho Theatre. Her television credits include Grantchester, Silent Witness , The Driver, What Remains, The Night Watch, New Tricks, Nativity, Blue Geranium , Lark Rise to Candleford, Cranford Chronicles, Fallen Angel, Fear of Fanny, Vital Signs, Dirty Filthy Love and Inspector Linley Mysteries . Her film credits include Bright Star, London to Brighton, Severance, Pride and Prejudice, Gosford Park and The Cat’s Meow . Stephen Campbell Moore ’s theatre credits include Photograph 51 at the Noël Coward Theatre, Chimerica for the Almeida and in the West End, Berenice for the Donmar Warehouse, Clybourne Park in the West End, All My Sons at the Apollo Theatre, The History Boys for the National Theatre and on Broadway, Much Ado About Nothing and Antony and Cleopatra both for the Royal Shakespeare Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Albery, Richard II and Coriolanus for the Almeida. His film credits include Goodbye Christopher Robin , How To Talk To Girls At Parties , The Lady in the Van , The Ones Below , Burnt , Moonwalkers, Man Up, Complicit, Johnny English Reborn, Season of the Witch, Sea Wolf, The Children, The Bank Job, Amazing Grace, The History Boys, A Good Woman and Bright Young Things . His television credits include The Child in Time, The Last Post, Stag, The Wrong Mans, The Go Between, Our Zoo, Hunted, Just Henry, Titanic, Sleepyhead, Pulse, Ben Hur, Lark Rise to Candleford, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Ashes to Ashes, Rough Crossings, Hustle, Wallis and Edward, He Knew He Was Right and Byron. Heather Craney originated the roles of Gayle and Laura in Consent for the National Theatre. Her other theatre credits includeThe Vote and Passion Play both for the Donmar Warehouse, Made in Dagenham at the Adelphi Theatre, Handbagged, Pink and You Me & Wii all for the Tricycle Theatre, I Like Mine with a Kiss at the Bush Theatre, Joe Guy at Soho Theatre, Sugar Mummies and Stoning Mary both for the Royal Court. For film, her recent credits include Child 44 , Dangerous Parking, Mark of Cain and Vera Drake which earned her a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. On television her credits include Line of Duty, Life of Riley, Torchwood, In the Dark, Ahead of the Class, Holby City, Doctors, Silent Witness, Eastenders . Adam James is an award-winning actor who has worked extensively on stage and screen. Currently in Olivier nominated Girl from the North Country at the Noël Coward Theatre, Adam originated the role of Jake in Consent for the National Theatre, where his previous credits have included 13, Gethsemane and Blood and Gifts. He is recognisable on screen for his roles in Dr Foster, King Charles III, The Crimson Field, Hustle and Extras amongst others. Other theatre credits include An Enemy of the People for Chichester Festival Theatre, Bull for the Young Vic, Now or Later and My Child both for the Royal Court and King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre. His film credits include The Kill Team, Johnny English III, Hunter Killer, A Little Chaos, Last Chance Harvey, Mother of Tears and Road To Guantanamo . His more recent television credits include Home From Home, Eric, Ernie and Me, Endeavour, Grantchester and Coalition . Up Up

Back to News & Press New Cast Announced for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD Thursday, 28 August 2025 Today, 28 August 2025, the producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions - are delighted to introduce the new cast who will join the Company from 15 October 2025, as booking for the original two-part multi award-winning London production extends to 26 July 2026 at the Palace Theatre. A combined total of 130,000 tickets have been released for Part 1 and Part 2 in the new booking period including 26,000 tickets priced at £15 per part. The West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the only version worldwide shown in two parts. Joining the cast are Joshua Sullivan as Albus Potter, Kai Spackman as Scorpius Malfoy, Oliver Boot as Draco Malfoy and Tamia-Renée Alexandra as Rose Granger-Weasley. David Ricardo-Pearce and Claire Lams continue as Harry and Ginny Potter with Thomas Aldridge and Naana Agyei-Ampadu as Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. They are joined by David Annen, Hollie Beastall, Jacqueline Beaumont, Angeline Bell, Ricardo Castro, Robert Curtis, Laveda Dione, Gabriel Fleary, Aidan Garrett Wilkins, Cate Hamer, Tim Hibberd, Max Hunter, Dewayne Jameson Adams, Emma Louise Jones, Laura June Ness, Geffen Katz-Kaye, Louise Ludgate, Sophie Matthew, Nathan Muwowo, David Nairne, Mariam Pope, Helen Power, Jocelyn Prah, Claire Redcliffe, Ian Redford, Martin de los Santos, Adam Slynn, Joshua Talbot, Callum Tempest, Alex Tomkins and Jake Tuesley. Jasper Franklin, Sebastian Halford, Rachel Kirk, Effie Linnen, Theo Martin, Zachary Seaton and Harper Tricker alternate two children’s roles. 19 years after Harry, Ron, and Hermione saved the wizarding world, they’re back on a most extraordinary new adventure – this time, joined by a brave new generation that has only just arrived at the legendary Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Prepare for spectacular spells, a mind-blowing race through time, and an epic battle to stop mysterious forces, all while the future hangs in the balance. Now booking to 26 July 2026, tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child remain priced from £15 per part. The regular performance schedule is Monday, Tuesday and Thursday – no performance; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 2pm Part One & 7pm Part Two; Sunday - 1pm Part One & 6pm Part Two. Each Friday 40 tickets priced at £40 (£20 per part) are released for every performance the following week, and located in great seats throughout the theatre. Patrons can enter the ‘Friday Forty’ lottery by downloading the TodayTix app. The access performances currently on sale are as follows - British Sign Language Performances on Saturday 13 September 2025 and Saturday 21 March 2026, Audio Described Performances on Saturday 15 November 2025 Saturday 14 March 2026, and Captioned Performances on Saturday 8 November 2025 and Saturday 7 March 2026. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the first Harry Potter story to be presented on stage and the eighth story in the Harry Potter series. Now in its ninth year at the Palace Theatre, the production has been seen by 2 million people in the West End and over 11 million worldwide and holds a record 60 major honours, with nine Laurence Olivier Awards including Best New Play and six Tony Awards including Best New Play. There are currently five productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child running worldwide in London, New York, Hamburg, Tokyo, and a North American tour which is currently running at Washington DC’s Broadway At The National, followed by The Fox Theatre, Atlanta, from February 2026. Find out more at WWW.HARRYPOTTERTHEPLAY.COM 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 and Lotte Hines CDG . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions , Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions . Up Up

Back to News & Press Top theatre producer picks up gong ‘in the memory of her family’ Wednesday, 14 June 2023 A theatre producer who picked up a gong at Buckingham Palace said she works hard in memory of her family, who travelled from Russia and escaped the Nazis. Sonia Friedman, whose production company is behind some of the biggest shows in the West End and on Broadway, said her family “sacrificed a huge amount”. She found out about the honour around the time she learned her brother, violinist and artist Richard Friedman, was going to die. “And my brother is the reason that I do what I do, because he was my inspiration when I was growing up – to be creative and to storytell and to use my imagination,” she said after getting her award on Tuesday. Ms Friedman, who has been made a CBE for services to theatre, said: “This will sound cliched but it is the truth, which is I come from a Russian immigrant refugee family who came here with nothing. “And they sacrificed a huge amount in order for my generation to exist, my generation of siblings, and I do it for them. I do it for their memory. “And it’s a legacy that, at the end of my life, I can have won many, many Oliviers or Tonys but I will have something that will carry through for my memory, particularly as I don’t have children. “It’s a confirmation that I did something in the memory of the family who travelled from Russia, escaped the Nazis, to allow me to do this.” Ms Friedman, whose company produced the hit play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, is currently working on the upcoming play Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Read the full Evening Standard article here. Up Up

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman Productions announce Mark Strong and Lesley Manville in Oedipus, created by Robert Icke after Sophocles Thursday, 18 January 2024 Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) today announce the West End run of Oedipus, a new adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles. Icke directs Mark Strong (OEDIPUS) and Lesley Manville (JOCASTA). The strictly limited run at Wyndham’s Theatre previews from Friday 4 October 2024. Icke’s production was originally presented in Dutch at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and at the Edinburgh International Festival. Further casting and on-sale dates to be announced. Individuals can sign up for priority booking here: Oedipustheplay.com 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. 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 comes to Wyndham’s Theatre for a strictly limited season from 4 October. Up Up

Back to News & Press New York Theatre Workshop announces details for Three Sisters adaptation Thursday, 20 February 2020 New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron (Dance Nation, You Got Older) will pen the adaptation of Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov for the previously announced production helmed by NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony Award winner Sam Gold (Othello, Fun Home). Three Sisters will begin previews on Wednesday May 13, 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop (79 E. 4th St, New York, NY 10003), and is set to open on Monday June 1, for a limited run through Sunday July 12, 2020. NYTW also announced today complete casting for Three Sisters . Joining the previously announced Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig (Little Women) as Masha and Golden Globe Award winner Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Show Me A Hero) as Vershinin will be Obie Award winner Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Marys Seacole, The Misanthrope) as Olga, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Steve Buscemi as Chebutykin (in his first return to theatre since The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with Al Pacino), Emily Davis (Is This A Room) as Natasha, Michael Benjamin Hernandez (The Birthday Cake) as Fedotik, John Christopher Jones (Much Ado About Nothing) as Ferapont, Lola Kirke (Gone Girl) as Irina, Anthony Michael Lopez (Mapplethorpe, Othello) as Rohde, Matthew Maher (King Lear, Othello) as Tusenbach, Chris Messina (“The Mindy Project,” Far Away) as Solyony, Aaron Clifton Moten (Romeo & Juliet) as Andrei, Ben Sinclair (“High Maintenance”) as Kulygin and Virginia Wing (“Gotham”) as Anfisa. Three Sisters will feature scenic design by Andrew Lieberman (The Glass Menagerie, Othello) & Brett J. Banakis (The Cher Show, What’s It All About?), costume design by Tony Award winner Clint Ramos (Eclipsed, Slave Play), lighting design by Tony Award nominee Jane Cox (King Lear, Othello), and sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman (Fairview, Sanctuary City). Laura Smith (Bella Bella) will serve as stage manager and Michelle DiBucci (Basetrack Live) will serve as music director. “Chekhov’s work occupies a special place in the soul of a theater-maker—the plays have an almost sacred place in the practice,” said NYTW Artistic Director James Nicola . “For audiences, the works of this Russian genius might by this moment in history have become a bit too familiar. When Sam brought the idea of a production of Three Sisters to us, I knew that he would shake off the encrusted assumptions about Chekhov with an immediacy that transfixed audiences. And when he invited Clare Barron to make the version we would use, I rejoiced, because I knew that she would find the reverberant juxtaposition of the samovar and blue jeans that would help us all see the play anew.” NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony Award winner Sam Gold (Othello) revisits Chekhov following his acclaimed 2012 production of Uncle Vanya that was heralded as “luminous” and "the most intimate and engaging exploration of Chekhov's bleak comedy.” This production of Three Sisters reunites Gold with two previous collaborators: The Village Bike’s Greta Gerwig and Hamlet’s Oscar Isaac . NYTW is committed to making tickets available to every production via its CHEAPTIX initiative. For Three Sisters , all tickets for the first two performances on May 13th and 14th plus a limited number of tickets to all other performances will be sold to the general public for $25 via a CHEAPTIX Digital Lottery in partnership with TodayTix . The lottery is offered in lieu of NYTW’s standard CHEAPTIX RUSH program to ensure that tickets are available at every performance. After the first two $25 CHEAPTIX performances, single tickets for Three Sisters range from $50–$125 and vary by performance date and time. All non-lottery tickets will go on sale Wednesday April 1 at 12pm EST at NYTW.org and by phone from the NYTW Box Office at 212-460-5475. No in-person sales will be available at the box office on April 1. Single tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Standard ticketing fees apply. There will be a limit of 8 tickets per person for this production. Ticket pickup for each performance begins two hours prior to curtain. Tickets will only be released to the purchaser and an ID is required for pickup. TodayTix allows you to enter the CHEAPTIX Digital Lottery via the app, available in the App Store or Google Play Store. The entry period for the first two performances will begin on Monday March 23 at 12:01am EST and continue through 12pm EST on Monday March 30, when winners will be notified. The entry period for all other performances will begin each performance day at 12:01am EST and continue until winners are notified. All entry rules apply, and winners will be notified daily. Entrants may request 1 or 2 tickets, and entry in the digital Lottery is free and open to all. All entry rules apply. The performance schedule for Three Sisters is as follows: Tuesday-Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm, Sunday at 2pm & 7pm. Exceptions: there will be no performances on Saturday May 16 at 2pm; Tuesday June 2; Sunday June 14 at 7pm; Wednesday June 17; and Saturday July 4. There will be an added performance on Wednesday July 1 at 2pm. Up Up

Back to News & Press The first images of the stage adaptation of shakespeare in love are released today Sunday, 6 July 2014 Disney and Sonia Friedman Productions present SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall Director Declan Donnellan Designer Nick Ormerod Music Paddy Cunneen Choreography Jane Gibson Lighting Neil Austin Sound Simon Baker THE WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF THIS NEW PLAY IS NOW IN PREVIEWS AT THE NOEL COWARD THEATRE, LONDON THE FIRST IMAGES OF THE STAGE ADAPTATION OF SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE ARE RELEASED TODAY Produced by Disney and Sonia Friedman Productions and 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 28 actors and musicians, one of the largest companies ever assembled for a play in the West End, plus two dogs, 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. Tickets for Shakespeare in Love at the Noël Coward Theatre are now on sale online at www.shakespeareinlove.com or by calling the box office on 0844 482 5141. Up Up