Back to News & Press Patrick Marber’s critically acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties Transfers To The West End Saturday, 29 October 2016 The production broke box office records at the Menier, becoming the first play in the company’s history to sell out ahead of its first preview. Patrick Marber directs Tom Hollander as he returns to the stage to play Henry Carr. Hollander is joined by the full company from the Menier - Freddie Fox (Tristan Tzara), Peter McDonald (James Joyce), Forbes Masson (Lenin), Clare Foster (Cecily), Amy Morgan (Gwendolen), Tim Wallers (Bennett) and Sarah Quist (Nadya). Priority booking for Menier Chocolate Factory supporters goes on sale at 9am on 31 October, with public booking opening on 2 November. ‘Patrick Marber’s near miraculous production of Travesties… A tremendous production that I shall not soon forget.” International New York Times Tom Stoppard ’s dazzling comedy of art, love and revolution features James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin as remembered -- and misremembered -- by Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich 1917. When Gwendolen and Cecily wander in from The Importance of Being Earnest, Henry’s mind wanders too. He knows he was Algernon in a production in Zurich. But who was the other one? ‘Tom Hollander is sensational… Travesties is, in its anarchic and magical exuberance, a tonic from start to finish.’ Observer Travesties opened at the Aldwych Theatre in 1974, directed by Peter Wood . It won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, and a Tony Award and New York Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play for its Broadway run at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. ‘This production, directed by Patrick Marber, is a playful joy, full of life, song, limericks and even (shimmy shimmy) a hint of burlesque’ The Times Tom Stoppard is a playwright and screenwriter, and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. He has written prolifically for stage, film, television and radio. His most recent play is The Hard Problem . Other plays include The Real Inspector Hound , After Magritte , Jumpers , Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with André Previn), Dirty Linen , New-Found-Land , Dogg’s Hamlet , Cahoot’s Macbeth, Night and Day , The Real Thing , Hapgood, Arcadia , Indian Ink , The Invention of Love , The Coast of Utopia and Rock’n’Roll . His many translations and adaptations include Tango , Undiscovered Country , On the Razzle , Three Men in a Boat , Parade’s End and Ivanov . He co-wrote the screenplays for the films Brazil , Shakespeare in Love and The Russia House . He has received an Academy Award, Olivier Award and four Tony Awards. He was knighted in 1997. Tom Hollander returns to the stage to play Henry Carr. His theatre credits include A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic), The Hotel in Amsterdam , The Threepenny Opera (Donmar Warehouse), The Judas Kiss (Playhouse Theatre and Broadway), The Government Inspector , Tartuffe (Almeida Theatre), Mojo (Royal Court Theatre), Don Juan (Sheffield Theatres), The School for Scandal (National Theatre) and As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl). His television credits include Doctor Thorne , The Night Manager , A Poet In New York , Rev. (co-created with James Wood), Ambassadors, Any Human Heart , The Thick Of It , Desperate Romantics , Gracie! , Headcases, John Adams , Cambridge Spies , The Lost Prince , The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Absolutely Fabulous . For film, his credits include Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation , The Riot Club, Muppets Most Wanted , The Invisible Woman , About Time , Hanna , The Soloist , In The Loop , Valkyrie , Elizabeth: The Golden Age , Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End , A Good Year , Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , Pride & Prejudice , Enigma and Maybe Baby . Freddie Fox plays Tristan Tzara. His theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet (Garrick Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Crucible), The Judas Kiss (Duke of York’s Theatre), Hay Fever (Noel Coward Theatre), Cause Célèbre , A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic) and The Last 5 Years (Barbican). His television work includes Russell T Davies’ Cucumber and Banana ; The Mystery of Edwin Drood , The Shadow Line , Any Human Heart , Worried About the Boy and Parade’s End ; and for film, Pride , The Riot Club , The Three Musketeers , St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold , Frankenstein and the forthcoming Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur and Fanny Lye Deliver’d . Peter McDonald plays James Joyce. His theatre includes The Weir (Donmar Warehouse/ Wyndham’s Theatre), The Veil , Greenland , Exiles , The Aristocrats (National Theatre), Red Bud (Royal Court Theatre), The Caretaker (Liverpool Everyman/Trafalgar Studios), Dancing At Lughnasa (The Old Vic), Nocturne (Almeida Theatre /Traverse Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross (Apollo Theatre), Days Of Wine And Roses , A Lie of the Mind (Donmar Warehouse) and The Lieutenant Of Inishmore (Garrick Theatre). His television work includes The Last Kingdom , Thirteen , Virtuoso , Murder , No Offence , May Day , Moone Boy , Titanic , City Of Vice , The Family Man , Green Wing , Sea Of Souls , The Plot To Kill Hitler and Paths To Freedom ; and for film, Steven , Fanny Lye Deliver’d , The Stag , Wreckers , The Damned United , The Henchman’s Tale , Nora, Saltwater , The Opportunists , Some Voices , Felicia’s Journey , An Inch Over The Horizon , I Went Down and November Afternoon . Forbes Masson plays Lenin. His theatre work includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Royal Bath), Doctor Faustus (Duke Of York’s Theatre ), Mr Foote’s Other Leg (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Hampstead Theatre), The Ruling Class , Richard III and Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios), The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens), The Life Of Stuff (Donmar Warehouse), as well as extensive work for the RSC. For television, his credits include Catastrophe , Shetland , Dead Boss , No Holds Barred , Fun At The Funeral Parlour , Monarch Of The Glen , A Young Persons Guide To Becoming A Rock Star , Is It Bill Bailey , The Creatives , Rab C. Nesbitt , Hamish Macbeth , The High Life (writer and creator with Alan Cumming), Paris and Red Dwarf . Clare Foster plays Cecily. Her theatre credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory and Harold Pinter Theatre),Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre), Separation and Duet For One (2015 Winner of Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actress, Bolton Octagon), Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve), Crazy For You (Novello Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Avenue Q (Noel Coward Theatre), We Will Rock You (Dominion theatre), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury Theatre), The Master and Margarita , Out Of This World (Chichester Festival Theatre), and Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible). For television, her work includes Sherlock , Galavant , Taboo , The Crown and Ripper Street ; and for film, Black Forest and Les Miserables . Amy Morgan plays Gwendolen. Her theatre work includes Red Velvet (Garrick Theatre), The Beaux Stratagem (National Theatre), The Broken Heart (Shakespeare’s Globe), An Ideal Husband (Chichester Festival Theatre), Once A Catholic (Tricycle Theatre), Trelawny Of The Wells , Inadmissable Evidence (Donmar Warehouse), The Country Wife (Royal Exchange) and Hay Fever (Noël Coward Theatre). For television, her work includes Mr Selfridge , Modern Medicine , Love Matters , Father Brown , Baker Boys , Crash and The Great War ; and for film, Pan and A Way Of Life . Tim Wallers plays Bennett. His theatre work includes Dead Sheep (Park Theatre), Yes Prime Minister (UK tour and West End) and The Lady in the Van (Theatre Royal Bath). For television, his work includes A Very British Deterrent , The Windsors , Doctor Thorne , Babylon , Count Arthur Strong and Sherlock ; and for film, The Have Nots , Grimsby , Generation Z , Remainder , RocknRolla and Mamma Mia . Sarah Quist plays Nadya. Her theatre work includes The Merry Wives of Windsor , Wind in the Willows (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre), A Mad World My Masters (RSC/ETT), The Amen Corner (National Theatre), The Bacchae (National Theatre of Scotland), and Hecuba , Alice in Wonderland and The Tempest (RSC). As a director, Patrick Marber ’s work includes Steve Coogan/John Thompson in Characters (Edinburgh/Purcell Room/Touring), and his own plays Dealer's Choice (National Theatre/Vaudeville Theatre), Closer (National Theatre/Lyric Theatre/Broadway), Howard Katz and Three Days In the Country (both National Theatre). Other productions include '1953 ' (Almeida Theatre), Blue Remembered Hills (National Theatre), The Old Neighborhood (Royal Court at Duke of York's Theatre), The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre) and I Remember (devised piece at Royal Court). For television, he directed After Miss Julie and The Curator (both for the BBC). As a writer, his other work includes The Musicians (NT Connections), After Miss Julie , Don Juan in Soho (Donmar Warehouse) and The Red Lion (National Theatre). For television, his work includes: co-writer The Day Today , Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Paul Calf Video Diaries , The Curator , Natural Born Quizzers (all BBC); for film, Closer (dir. Mike Nichols), Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre) and Love You More (dir. Sam Taylor-Wood); and for radio, Hoop Lane (BBC Radio 3) Bunk Bed with Peter Curran (BBC Radio 4). Up Up

Back to Productions ROSMERSHOLM This production opened on 24th April and closed on 20th July 2019. ★★★★★ A production that sends you out into the night reeling under the impact of Ibsen’s tantalising masterpiece The Guardian An election looming. A country on the brink. A rabid press baying for blood. At the centre of the storm stands Rosmer’s home, the grand house of an influential dynasty. This is where the future will be decided by John Rosmer – a man torn between the idealised hope of the future and the ghosts of his past. ★★★★★ This portrait of a community torn apart by conflicting ideologies could not be more pertinent or better performed Sunday Express Ian Rickson directs Tom Burke , Hayley Atwell and Giles Terera in the West End premiere of Duncan Macmillan ‘s startling new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen ’s gripping and piercingly relevant work of personal and political passion Rosmersholm . Rosmersholm is the tenth collaboration between Sonia Friedman Productions and director Ian Rickson (including The Birthday Party, Mojo, Old Times, Betrayal, Jerusalem ) and marks a second time working with award-winning writer and director Duncan Macmillan , who previously collaborated with Sonia Friedman Productions on the West End and Broadway run of 1984 , which he co-adapted/co-directed with Robert Icke. His other plays include People Places and Things which enjoyed huge success in London and New York. ★★★★ Grippingly modern. A treat Daily Telegraph CAST HAYLEY ATWELL – Rebecca West LUCY BRIERS – Mrs Helseth TOM BURK – John Rosmer JAKE FAIRBROTHER – Peter Mortensgaard GILES TERERA – Andreas Kroll PETER WIGHT – Ulrik Brendel GAVIN ANTONY – Ensemble EBONY BUCKLE – Ensemble PIERS HAMPTON – Ensemble MAUREEN HIBBERT – Ensemble ROBYN LOVELL – Ensemble ALIVE VILANCULO – Ensemble CREATIVES Adapted by DUNCAN MACMILLAN IAN RICKSON – Director RAE SMITH – Set and Costume Designer NEIL AUSTIN – Lighting Designer STEPHEN WARBECK – Composer GREGORY CLARKE – Sound Designer AMY BALL CDG – Casting

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 HAMLET – BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH This production began performances on 5th August and closed on 31st October 2015. ★★★★ Mr Cumberbatch gives a reminder that he is a top-rank stage actor Daily Mail As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to revenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. ★★★★ He is a blazing five star Hamlet. The wait has not been in vain. Praise be. The Daily Telegraph Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role of Shakespeare ’s great tragedy. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica). ★★★★★ A thrillingly epic production Metro CAST BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH – Hamlet BARRY AIRD – Soldier EDDIE ARNOLD – Danish Captain/Servant LEO BILL – Horatio SIAN BROOKE – Ophelia NIGEL CARRINGTON – Servant/Cornelius RUAIRI CONAGHAN – Player King RUDI DHARMALINGAM – Guildenstern COLIN HAIGH – Priest/Messenger PAUL HAM – Official DIVEEN HENREY – Player Queen/Messenger ANASTASIA HILLE – Gertrude CIARÁN HINDS – Claudius KOBNA HOLDBROOK-SMITH – Laertes KARL JOHNSON – Ghost of Hamlet's Father JIM NORTON – Polonius AMAKA OKAFOR – Official DANIEL PARR – Barnardo JAN SHEPHERD – Courtier MORAG SILLER – Voltemand MATTHEW STEER – Rosencrantz SERGO VARES – Fortinbras DWANE WALCOTT – Marcellus CREATIVES LYNDSEY TURNER – Director ES DEVLIN – Set Designer KATRINA LINDSAY – Costume Designer LUKE HALLS – Video JANE COX – Lighting CHRISTOPHER SHUTT – Sound JON HOPKINS – Music SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI – Movement BRET YOUNT – Fights

Back to News & Press Dreamgirls - Open singer auditions Thursday, 16 April 2015 We are looking for black and mixed race performers with strong soul/pop voices for the lead roles of Effie White, Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson, Curtis Taylor Jr., Jimmy Early and C.C. White. Please be prepared to sing a pop song and bring the sheet music. No backing tracks. A pianist will be provided. Please bring a CV and recent photograph stapled together. Be prepared to wait. TUESDAY 5 MAY 2015 10:00AM Morning Registration (AM registration closes at 11:00am) 1:30PM Afternoon Registration (PM registration closes at 2:30pm) VENUE: GLASSHILL STUDIOS 20-24 KINGS BENCH STREET, LONDON SE1 0QX If unable to attend please contact: enquiries@pippaailioncasting.co.uk Up Up

Back to News & Press Ink to transfer to the Duke of York's theatre in September Sunday, 16 July 2017 Featuring Bertie Carvel as Rupert Murdoch and Richard Coyle as Larry Lamb. Ink will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited run from Saturday 9 September 2017 – Saturday 6 January 2018. Over 20,000 tickets for the West End run will be on sale at £20 or less with tickets at all performances from just £10. Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. A young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asks the impossible and launches The Sun’s first editor’s quest: to give the people what they want. No matter the cost. Following a sell-out season at the Almeida, Ink , written by James Graham (This House) and directed by Rupert Goold (King Charles III ), transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season. With a cast featuring Bertie Carvel (Doctor Foster, Matilda ) and Richard Coyle (The Lover/The Collection ), this ruthless, red-topped new play leads with the birth of this country’s most influential newspaper. James Graham said: "It's been such a creatively rewarding experience, building this show at the Almeida. I'm in absolute awe of our actors and the creative team, led by Rupert. And grateful to the audiences who've been coming and supporting the work. After being given the chance to revive This House in the West End earlier this year I think it's really exciting to see so many new and politically-engaged plays being given the chance to find a wider audience." Rupert Goold said: "I’m thrilled the Almeida’s production of Ink will transfer to the West End this autumn and that we are able to share James Graham ’s brilliant play, together with Bunny Christie ’s ingenious set design and our sensational company of actors, with a wider audience. Ink is a play about ambition, truth and the power of the press - and for that reason it has never felt a more timely and significant story to tell." Bertie Carvel ’s theatre credits include: Bakkhai ; Rope (for the Almeida), The Hairy Ape (Old Vic); Damned by Despair ; The Man of Mode ; Life of Galileo ; Coram Boy (National Theatre); Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival); Matilda: The Musical (RSC / West End/Broadway); The Pride (Chichester/ UK tour); Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Faustus (Etcetera Theatre); Professor Bernhardi ; Rose Bernd (OSC/Arcola/Dumbfounded Theatre); Macbeth (Union Theatre / En Masse); Revelations (Hampstead Theatre), and as a director, Strife (Chichester). Television includes: Doctor Foster ; Coalition ; The Wrong Mans ; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ; Babylon ; Restless; Hidden ; The Crimson Petal & The White ; Just William ; Sherlock ; Midsomer Murders ; Waking The Dead ; Primeval ; John Adams ; Doctor Who ; Holby City ; The Genius of Beethoven ; Bombshell ; Hawking . Film includes: Les Misérables . Bertie trained at RADA and got his first job in the BBC Radio Drama company, with whom he has performed in over fifty plays. Richard Coyle ’s theatre credits include: Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory); Polar Bears; After Miss Julie; Proof (Donmar Warehouse); The Lover / The Collection (West End); Look Back In Anger (Theatre Royal Bath); Don Carlos (Crucible, Sheffield / West End); The York Realist (Royal Court & West End). Television includes: Hard Sun; Born to Kill; The Fall; The Collection; AD; Crossbones; Life of Crime; Covert Affairs; Going Postal; Whistleblowers; The History of Mr Polly; Cracker; The Best Man; Gunpowder, Treason and Plot; Strange; Coupling; Film includes: The Food Guide to Love; Pusher; Grabbers; W.E.; 5 Days of War; Prince of Persia; Franklyn; A Good Year; The Libertine; Happy Now; Young Blades; Topsy-Turvy; Human Traffic; Jane Eyre . Ink is James Graham ’s Almeida debut. His work for theatre, television and film includes This House , which had two sell-out runs at The National theatre, and a run at the Garrick Theatre in the West End, was broadcast to cinemas internationally by NT Live and will tour the UK early 2018; Finding Neverland (book) on Broadway; Privacy and The Vote (broadcast live on television on election night 2015) at the Donmar Warehouse; Coalition for Channel 4; Monster Raving Loony for Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho Theatre, and The Whisky Taster at the Bush Theatre. He remains the writer in residence at the Finborough Theatre. His first feature film X+Y for BBC Films was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival before an international cinema release in Spring 2015. James has been commissioned to write a TV drama set around the events of the 2016 Referendum and a film adaptation of 1984. Rupert Goold is the Almeida’s Artistic Director where he has previously directed Richard III , which was broadcast live to cinemas around the world in July 2016, Medea , The Merchant of Venice , King Charles III and American Psycho , which opened on Broadway in April 2016. He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect , ENRON , Earthquakes in London and Decade . Other theatre credits include Made in Dagenham in the West End; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway; and No Man’s Land at The Gate, Dublin and in the West End. He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. He was Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2012 and was Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005. On film he directed the BAFTA nominated Richard II , part of The Hollow Crown , and Macbeth for the BBC, feature True Story , starring James Franco and Jonah Hill, and an adaptation of his production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III for BBC Two. Rupert was awarded a CBE for services to drama in the 2017 New Year’s Honours. Full casting to be announced. Up Up

Back to Productions IN FLAME This production began performances on 4th September and closed on 28th October 2000. Yorkshire 1908: Naive Clara and her impulsive sister Livvy escape the vigilant eye of their straight-laced grandmother and fall under the spell of a wayward heartbreaker London 2000: 36 year old Alex is successful, attractive and certain her life is mapped out...but with a neurotic flatmate, a mother who doesn't recognise her, and a married lover who deals in futures but lives in the present, is life really so sweet? Hearts catch fire as past and present family histories collide... IN FLAME , an enormous hit at the Bush Theatre last year, won Charlotte Jones the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. This production features an outstanding cast including Kerry Fox (An Angel at my Table , Shallow Grave ), Olivier Award-winning Marcia Warren and Jason Hughes (This Life ). Rosie Cavaliero , Emma Dewhurst and Ivan Kaye complete the superb ensemble of this outstanding production. CAST ROSIE CAVALIERO – Clara/Cootie IVAN KAYE – Frank/Mat MARCIA WARREN – Annie/Gramma JASON HUGHES – James/Arthur KERRY FOX – Alex EMMA DEWHURST – Livvy CREATIVES CHARLOTTE JONES – Playwright ANNA MACKMIN – Director TOM PYE – Designer JENNY KAGAN – Lighting SCARLETT MACKMIN – Choreographer ANDY COWTON – Composer

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman on pandemic theatre: ‘It’s a bloodbath’ Monday, 17 January 2022 Sunday Times - Interview with Sonia Friedman: By Kirsty Lang Sunday January 09 2022, 12.01am, The Sunday Times Sonia Friedman hasn’t stopped since she left school at 16 for a job backstage, winning 58 Olivier awards and 34 Tonys on her rags to riches way to the top. If all goes to plan, the super-producer’s blockbuster openings this year include Mark Rylance reprising his role in Jerusalem in the West End and Funny Girl on Broadway. Friedman, though, has not had a happy new year. In the past three weeks she has had to cancel 158 performances and lost more than £4 million. Omicron has rolled inexorably through the West End like a tsunami. The new variant could not have arrived at a worse time. The Christmas period is when theatre companies build up their reserves. A pantomime can account for 40 per cent of a regional theatre’s annual box-office income. “It’s a bloodbath and it’s chaotic,” Friedman says. “We are seeing drops in our box office of between 25 and 50 per cent. There’s fear, despair and confusion all round.” Read the full article on the Sunday Times website → Up Up

Back to Productions ARCADIA This production began performances on 27th May and closed on 12th September 2009. Stoppard's dazzling masterpiece. The Daily Telegraph April 1809, a stately home in Derbyshire... Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809, in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth. Fizzing with ingenuity – Stoppard at his finest. The Times Sonia Friedman Productions , Roger Berlind , Robert G Bartner and Olympus Theatricals present “ARCADIA ” by Tom Stoppard . Arcadia adorns the West End and makes us think and feel in qual measure. You can't ask for more. The Guardian CAST SAMANTHA BOND – Hannah Jarvis NANCY CARROLL – Lady Croom JESSIE CAVE – Thomasina Coverly TREVOR COOPER – Richard Noakes SAM COX – Jellaby LUCY GRIFFITHS – Chloe Coverly TOM HODGKINS – Captain Brice RN HUGH MITCHELL – Augustus/Gus Coverly NEIL PEARSON – Bernard Nightingale GEORGE POTTS – Ezra Chater DAN STEVENS – Septimus Hodge ED STOPPARD – Valentine Coverly CREATIVES DAVID LEVEAUX – Director HILDEGARD BECHTLER – Set Designer AMY ROBERTS – Costume Designer PAUL ANDERSON – Lighting Designer SIMON BAKER – Sound Designer CORIN BUCKERIDGE – Music SCARLETT MACKMIN – Choreography

Back to News & Press Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch to star in A Little Night Music on Broadway Sunday, 6 June 2010 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC currently stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, who will play their final performance on Sunday, June 20th. The production will be dark until performances resume on Tuesday, July 13th starring Bernadette Peters as Desirée Armfeldt and Elaine Stritch as Madame Armfeldt. In addition to Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desirée Armfeldt and Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt, the production also currently stars Alexander Hanson as Fredrik Egerman, Aaron Lazar as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, Erin Davie as Countess Charlotte Malcolm, Leigh Ann Larkin as Petra, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Henrik Egerman and Ramona Mallory as Anne Egerman. The cast also includes Stephen R. Buntrock, Bradley Dean, Marissa McGowan, Katherine McNamara, Betsy Morgan, Jayne Paterson, Kevin David Thomas, Keaton Whittaker, Karen Murphy, Erin Stewart, Kevin Vortmann. Alexander Hanson is appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance to this production. Based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is set in a weekend country house in turn of the century Sweden, bringing together surprising liaisons, long simmering passions and a taste of love’s endless possibilities. Hailed as witty and wildly romantic, the story centers on the elegant actress Desirée Armfeldt and the spider’s web of sensuality, intrigue and desire that surrounds her. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC – featuring a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler – originally opened in 1973 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre and ran for 601 performances. Produced and directed by Harold Prince, the production garnered six Tony Awards® including Best Musical and Best Original Score. The Sondheim score features one of the composer's best-known songs, “Send in the Clowns,” as well as “Every Day a Little Death,” “The Miller's Son” and “A Weekend in the Country.” Trevor Nunn’s production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC debuted to critical acclaim at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory in November 2008 and subsequently transferred to the West End where it played a successful limited engagement through July 25, 2009 at the Garrick Theatre. The first Broadway revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC began performances on November 24, 2009 and officially opened on December 13, 2009 at the Walter Kerr Theatre starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and Alexander Hanson. The creative team for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC includes Lynne Page (Choreography), Caroline Humphris (Musical Supervision), David Farley (Set & Costume Design), Hartley T A Kemp (Lighting Design), Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen (Sound Design), Paul Huntley (Wig Design), Jason Carr (Orchestrations) and Tom Murray (Musical Direction). A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is produced on Broadway by Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, The Menier Chocolate Factory, Roger Berlind, David Babani, Sonia Friedman Productions, Andrew Fell, Daryl Roth/Jane Bergère, Harvey Weinstein/Raise the Roof 3, Beverly Bartner/Dancap Productions, Inc., Nica Burns/Max Weitzenhoffer, Eric Falkenstein/Anna Czekaj, Jerry Frankel/Ronald Frankel, James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer. Up Up

Back to News & Press Full casting announced for the UK tour of King Charles III Wednesday, 12 August 2015 Alongside the previously announced Robert Powell, who takes on the role of King Charles, the company will include Penelope Beaumont, Jennifer Bryden, Richard Glaves, Dominic Jephcott, Lucy Phelps, Ben Righton, Giles Taylor, Parth Thakerar, Tim Treloar, Beatrice Walker and Paul Westwood. Directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold with Whitney Mosery, King Charles III is designed by Tom Scutt, with music composed by Jocelyn Pook, lighting by Jon Clark and sound by Paul Arditti. The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, Prince Charles ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Mike Bartlett's play explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. King Charles III opens at Birmingham Repertory Theatre and then visits Richmond Theatre, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Milton Keynes Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Canterbury Marlowe Theatre, Malvern Festival Theatre, Guildford Yvonne Arnaud, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Bath Theatre Royal, Chichester Festival Theatre and Plymouth Theatre Royal. The King Charles III tour is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Stuart Thompson Productions, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Charles Diamond and the Almeida Theatre in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and by arrangement with Lee Dean. King Charles III will also open on Broadway this October at the Music Box Theatre. Tim Pigott-Smith will reprise the role of Charles as performed at the Almeida Theatre and in the West End, alongside Oliver Chris, Richard Goulding, Adam James, Margot Leicester, Miles Richardson, Tom Robertson, Sally Scott, Tafline Steen and Lydia Wilson. The production was first produced by the Almeida Theatre and was subsequently co-produced at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End of London by Sonia Friedman Productions and Stuart Thompson Productions in association with Lee Dean and Charles Diamond and Tulchin Bartner Productions. This year King Charles III has been awarded the Olivier Award, Critics Choice and South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best New Play. Up Up

Back to News & Press THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Stephen Daldry, Sonia Friedman Board ‘A FRIEND OF DOROTHY,’ Short With Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Fry Monday, 20 October 2025 Original article here . Director and producer Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader ) and Sonia Friedman , the theater producer behind such West End hits as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Stranger Things: The First Shadow , have boarded A Friend of Dorothy , a short film starring Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter, The Age of Innocence ) and Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, Wilde ) as executive producers. Supported by Age U.K., the movie marks the filmmaking debut of writer-director Lee Knight , who also serves as an executive producer on the short. A Friend of Dorothy follows “Dorothy (Margolyes ), an elderly woman living alone, whose unexpected friendship with her young neighbour, JJ (Alistair Nwachukwu ), begins when his football lands in her garden,” reads a synopsis. Following multiple award wins at qualifying festivals throughout the year, the project is now eligible for both the best live-action short film at the 2026 Academy Awards and the BAFTA for best British short film, according to the creative team. “Seeing it for the first time was a revelation. In just 20 minutes, we experience the sweep of whole lives — a story that is both deeply moving and profoundly uplifting,” said Daldry , a three-time Oscar nominee and three-time Tony Award winner. “As a director myself, I know how rare it is for a debut to arrive so fully formed; it feels like the work of an artist with a lifetime of experience. What Lee has created is, quite simply, a mini masterpiece.” Friedman added: “I’m proud to support a work that will resonate far beyond the screen, sparking conversations about loneliness, friendship, identity, and the power of art to change hearts and minds. Above all, I hope it reminds us of the extraordinary impact that even the smallest acts of kindness can have on our lives.” About the support of the two big names, Knight said: “I’m thrilled to have Sonia and Stephen on board. I’ve admired their careers for many years; they’re true game-changers in the world of storytelling. Their commitment to championing unique voices and amplifying urgent, essential narratives is deeply inspiring.” He added: “Sonia produced my very first acting job, and she also produced The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez , which Stephen directed, a play that had a deep impact on me, and is an underlying theme within my film. Having their support now feels incredibly full-circle.” Producing the project under Knight’s Filthy Gorgeous Productions banner, in association with A Marlow’s Production , Double Dice Films , and Namesake Films , are James Dean , Scottie Fotré and Max Marlow . The executive producers are Knight , Daldry , Friedman , Harry Burnett Rae , Gordon Cameron , Charles Gordon , Nicky Hale , Soumia Majumdar , Nichola Martin , Elliott Linger and Ingrid Tarrant . Up Up