Back to Productions AFTERPLAY This production began performances on 19th September and closed on 8th December 2002. CAST JOHN HURT – Andrey PENELOPE WILTON – Sonja CREATIVES BRIAN FRIEL – Playwright ROBIN LEFEVRE – Director

Back to News & Press Ghosts available on digital theatre from 18 September Tuesday, 19 August 2014 London, UK: DIGITAL THEATRE is delighted to announce its next title; Richard Eyre’s five-star, multi award-winning revival production of Ibsen’s Ghosts starring Olivier Award-winners LESLEY MANVILLE and JACK LOWDEN will be available to buy and watch online around the world from Thursday 18 September 2014. Continuing our mission to increase accessibility to the arts for everyone, Ghosts will also be available to rent or buy with the option of captioning provided by STAGETEXT. Robert Delamere, Co-Founder and Creative Director of DIGITAL THEATRE said: “Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Ghosts is an immensely powerful, affecting production with Lesley Manville giving one of the best central performances I have ever seen. I am thrilled to have worked closely with Sir Richard in translating the play from the stage to the screen, so that audiences around the world can experience this outstanding work of art and continue the dialogue around it on a global scale”. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of his father’s dissolute life. This acclaimed production sold out at the Almeida before transferring to the Trafalgar Studios where it played to packed houses, extending its original RUN due to popular demand. On 26 June, for one night only, Ghosts was screened in over 275 cinemas throughout the UK and Ireland. LESLEY MANVILLE is a multi award-winning theatre, film and television actor. She was last on stage in Grief at the National Theatre, where she has previously been seen in Her Naked Skin, Pillars of the Community, The Alchemist and His Dark Materials. Other theatre credits include Six Degrees of Separation and All About My Mother at the Old Vic, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Pope’s Wedding and Three Sisters at the Royal Court and for the Royal Shakespeare Company she has been seen in The Wives’ Excuse, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and As You Like It. On screen, Lesley has regularly collaborated with Mike Leigh in films including Another Year, All or Nothing, Topsy-Turvy, Secrets and Lies and High Hopes. Her other film credits include The Christmas Candle, Molly Moon, Maleficent, Romeo and Juliet, Spike Island and A Christmas Carol. On television her credits include An Adventure in Space and Time, The Man Who Would Be Bond, Mayday, Cranford, North and South, Bodily Harm, Other Peoples' Children, Promoted To Glory, The Cazalets, David Copperfield, Painted Lady, The Bite, Holding On, Tears Before Bedtime, A Statement of Affairs, Top Girls, Grown-Ups and The Firm. RICHARD EYRE’s credits at the Almeida include The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, David Hare’s The Judas Kiss - his first production after leaving the National Theatre where he was Director from 1988-1997 - The Novice and Hedda Gabler. His more recent work as a director for the stage includes the award-winning production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible on Broadway, the world premieres of Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter both for the National Theatre, Noël Coward’s Private Lives on Broadway and the musical Mary Poppins. Most recently he directed Stephen Ward The Musical at the Aldwych Theatre, Quartermaine’s Terms at the Wyndham’s Theatre and The Pajama Game for Chichester Festival Theatre, currently playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre. For television his credits include Changing Stages - a BBC series on the history of theatre in the 20th century, which he co-wrote with Nicholas Wright and presented. Eyre directed the BAFTA award-winning Tumbledown for the BBC and directed the critically-acclaimed Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 for the BBC’s 2012 Shakespeare Season. His film credits include Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal and The Other Man. Ghosts was produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre with Rupert Gavin, Tanya Link Productions and JFL Theatricals/GHF Productions in association with 1001 Nights. For more information, and to register your interest in Ghosts visit http://www.digitaltheatre.com/production/details/henrik-ibsen-ghosts Up Up

Back to Productions CELEBRATION This production's strictly limited run began on 1st December and closed on 3rd December 2005. To celebrate Harold Pinter's 75th Birthday and his receiving the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Gate Theatre Dublin presented a reading by leading British actors of Pinter's play Celebration at the Albery Theatre for three nights only. Directed by Alan Stanford , the cast was Sinead Cusack (Prue), Janie Dee (Suki), Michael Gambon (Lambert), Jeremy Irons (Russell), Joanna Lumley (Sonia), Stephen Rea (Waiter), Kenneth Cranham (Matt), Charles Dance (Richard) and Penelope Wilton (Julie), all of whom have previously appeared in Pinter's plays. In his seventy fifth year, award-winning playwright, screen writer, director and actor Harold Pinter received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature which he collected in Stockholm. He was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002. The Gate Theatre has a unique association with Harold Pinter, having presented two festivals of his work, in 1994 and 1997, and curated a third at the Lincoln Center, New York in 2001, all of which Pinter himself participated in. In October the Gate marked Pinter's 75th birthday by producing Old Times and Betrayal, and, on the weekend of his birthday many actors associated with his work travelled to Dublin for readings of a selection of plays, poetry and prose spanning over 50 years, in which Pinter himself took part. The Gate Theatre Dublin's partner in this venture is Sonia Friedman Productions . Both the Gate Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions have collaborated on many productions in the West End, including The Home Place by Brian Friel, Afterplay by Brian Friel, Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett and See You Next Tuesday by Ronald Harwood. Together they presented the Gate Theatre Dublin's production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer in New York starring Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid, directed by Jonathan Kent. CAST KENNETH CRANHAM – Matt SINEAD CUSACK – Prue CHARLES DANCE – Richard JANIE DEE – Suki MICHAEL GAMBON – Lambert JEREMY IRONS – Russell JOANNA LUMLEY – Sonia STEPHEN REA – Waiter PENELOPE WILTON – Julie CREATIVES HAROLD PINTER – Playwright ALAMN STANFORD – Director EILEEN DISS – Designer EVANNA MEEHAN – Stage Manager

Back to News & Press Mark Rylance won the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award! Thursday, 19 May 2011 For his performances in two Broadway shows produced this season by Sonia Friedman Productions - LA BETE and JERUSALEM - Mark Rylance was recognised by the Drama League with the Distinguished Performance Award, the only award given by the League to any actor or actress in the entire Broadway season. The 77th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon were held on 20 May in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square. Up Up

Back to News & Press SFP productions and co-productions receive 18 nominations in the 2018 Olivier Awards Tuesday, 6 March 2018 The Ferryman Best New Play Best Director Sam Mendes Best Actor Paddy Considine Best Actress Laura Donnelly Best Actor in a Supporting Role John Hodgkinson Best Actress in a Supporting Role Bríd Brennan Best Actress in a Supporting Role Dearbhla Molloy Best Set Design Rob Howell Ink Best New Play Best Director Rupert Goold Best Actor in a Supporting Role Bertie Carvel Best Set Design Bunny Christie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Best Revival of a Play Best Actress Imelda Staunton Best Actress in a Supporting Role Imogen Poots Hamlet Best Revival of a Play Best Actor Andrew Scott Best Sound Design Tom Gibbons Up Up

Back to News & Press Leopoldstadt Set to Open on Broadway this September Monday, 6 June 2022 Tom Stoppard ’s 'masterpiece' (The Independent ) will begin its Broadway run with previews on 14th September at the Longacre Theatre. Opening night is scheduled to be 2nd October. Leopoldstadt began in London’s West End pre-pandemic and continued with extra dates once theatres reopened in 2021. Inspired by, but not based on, Stoppard ’s own family history, the play begins in 1899 and chronicles 50 years in the life of one family. A cast of 38 is set to depict the passionate drama of love, family and endurance. Hailed as ‘A momentous new play. Both epic and intimate’ (London Financial Times ) and ‘Breathtaking. The work of a master’ (Time Out London ), Stoppard's Leopoldstadt will once again be directed by Patrick Marber, who directed the original London run. For further information, please click here . Up Up

Back to News & Press J'Ouvert Nominated for Best Play at the Black British Theatre Awards Wednesday, 13 October 2021 The nominees have been unveiled for this year's Black British Theatre Awards, celebrating the best in Black British Talent. Congratulations to Yasmin Joseph, Rebekah Murrell, the cast and entire creative team on their nomination for Best Play for J’Ouvert at the Harold Pinter Theatre. The BBTAs, now in their third year, will announce winners next month: returning to the elegance of the Old Finsbury Town Hall, home of its inaugural ceremony, on Sunday 21 November 2021. Up Up

Back to Productions PRIVATE LIVES – BROADWAY This production began performances on 6th November, opened on 17th November and closed on 30th December 2011. Glamorous, rich and reckless, Amanda ( Cattrall ) and Elyot ( Gross ) have been divorced from each other for five years. Now both are honeymooning with their new spouses in the South of France. When, by chance, they meet again across adjoining hotel balconies, their insatiable feelings for each other are immediately rekindled. They hurl themselves headlong into love and lust without a care for scandal, new partners or memories of what drove them apart in the first place...for a little while, anyway. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross will star on Broadway this autumn in Noël Coward 's Private Lives directed by Richard Eyre at the Music Box Theatre. Considered one of the greatest comedies ever written, Noël Coward 's Private Lives premiered in London in 1930 and has been produced around the world ever since; it premiered on Broadway in 1931. Kim Cattrall , an international star of film, TV and stage, starred as Amanda in Sir Richard Eyre 's production of Private Lives at London's Vaudeville Theatre in 2010. The production received rave reviews from critics and played a sell-out season. It will play a limited run at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre prior to Broadway. Cattrall will be joined by Paul Gross in the role of Elyot. One of Canada's most acclaimed actors, Gross starred in such TV shows as Due South and Slings and Arrows. The cast is completed by Simon Paisley Day ; Anna Madeley and Caroline Olsson . CAST KIM CATTRALL – Amanda PAUL GROSS – Elyot SIMON PAISLEY DAY – Victor ANNA MADELEY – Sybil CAROLINE LENA OLSSON – Louise CREATIVES NOËL COWARD – Playwright RICHARD EYRE – Director ROB HOWELL – Scenic Designer DAVID HOWE – Lighting Designer JASON BARNES – Sound Designer UK CHRISTOPHER CONIN – Sound Designer US CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES – Hair Designer LUC VERSCHUEREN – Hair Designer MATTHEW SCOTT – Music Supervisor/Composer

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman Short-Listed for 'Producer of the Year' Thursday, 22 December 2016 Sonia Friedman has been short-listed for 'Producer of the Year' at The Stage Awards 2017 - an award she won at the event in both 2016 and 2015. She is shortlisted alongside Kenny Wax and Fiery Angel. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on 27 January at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. It has been an extraordinary 12 months for Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) achieving incredible successes with their productions of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Parts I and II , Nice Fish , Funny Girl , Sunny Afternoon and triumphantly just last week, Dreamgirls . Up Up

Back to Productions DREAMGIRLS More informtation here . CAST Casting to be announced. CREATIVES CAMILLE A. BROWN - Director

Back to News & Press Sheridan Smith to play Fanny Brice in Funny Girl Sunday, 2 August 2015 The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces that award-winning actress Sheridan Smith returns to the theatre to play Fanny Brice in a major new revival of Funny Girl. The multi award-winning Michael Mayer directs the production, which opens on 2 December, with previews from 20 November, and runs until 5 March 2016. This production is presented in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott Landis . Funny Girl returns to the London stage for the first time since its 1966 première. With music by Jule Styne , lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Isobel Lennart , the Broadway smash which skyrocketed Barbra Streisand to stardom, is revived with Sheridan Smith playing Fanny Brice, who rose from the Lower East Side of New York to become one of Broadway's biggest stars under producer Florenz Ziegfield. While she was cheered onstage as a great comedienne, offstage she faced a doomed relationship with the man she loved. With a score featuring now-classic songs such as "People", "You Are Woman, I Am Man" and "Don't Rain on My Parade", this brand new production promises to be a major theatrical event. Tickets go on sale to the Menier Chocolate Factory supporters at 9am on Monday 10 August, with public booking opening at 9am on Monday 17 August. Director: Michael Mayer ; Designer: Michael Pavelka ; Choreographer: Lynne Page Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson ; Sound Designer: Richard Brooker Musical Supervisor: Alan Williams Up Up

Back to News & Press King Charles III to be broadcast on Radio 3 Thursday, 2 July 2015 After a lifetime of waiting, Charles ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Mike Bartlett's 'future history' play won the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play. The production, directed byRupert Goold, premiered at the Almeida Theatre before moving to the West End in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions and Stuart Thompson Productions. This "bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining new play" (The Independent) explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. KING CHARLES III was first produced by the Almeida Theatre and 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 & Charles Diamond and Tulchin Bartner Productions. Mike Bartlett's radio play NOT TALKING won both the Imison and Tinniswood Awards in 2007. He has been Writer-In-Residence at the both the National Theatre and The Royal Court Theatre. His play LOVE, LOVE, LOVE won Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre Awards UK; COCK won an Olivier Award in 2010 for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, as did BULL in 2015. As well as winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play, KING CHARLES III won the Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of 2014. KING CHARLES III will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 10pm Sunday 12 July 2015. For more information click here . Up Up