Back to News & Press Casting announced for Fun Home Tuesday, 10 April 2018 The production is produced in association with Sonia Friedman Productions , Fox Theatricals and Barbara Whitman . Casting for Small Alison, John and Christian will be confirmed at a later date. Fun Home , based on Alison Bechdel’s celebrated 2006 graphic novel, made a sensational debut at The Public Theater in New York in October 2013, followed by a triumphant Broadway run and a successful US National tour. Fun Home explores the memories of Alison’s uniquely complicated family at three different stages in her life - her volatile, brilliant, enigmatic father, mother and brothers – that connect with her in surprising new ways. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Choreography is by Danny Mefford , set and costume design by David Zinn , light by Ben Stanton , sound by Kai Harada , music supervision by Chris Fenwick , music direction by Nigel Lilley and casting by Julia Horan CDG . The Associate Director is Portia Krieger . The Jerwood Assistant Director is Leo J Skilbeck . This role is supported through the Jerwood Assistant Director Program at the Young Vic. This is the final show in David Lan ’s last season as Artistic Director of the Young Vic. Fun Home runs from 18 June – 1 September 2018 in the Young Vic’s Main House. Up Up

Back to News & Press Jeremy Herrin to direct stellar comedy cast in Ayckbourn classic Absent Friends Friday, 9 December 2011 Previewing at the Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly the Comedy Theatre) from 26 January 2012. With press night on 9 February Absent Friends, produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Bob Bartner, is currently booking until 14 April. Designs are by Tom Scutt with lighting by Peter Mumford and sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph. When Colin loses his fiancée, his married friends invite him round for comfort over tea and sandwiches. As the tea starts to pour, it's clear that trouble is brewing with a wickedly funny blend of jealousy, infidelity and barely concealed loathing. Tension starts to boil and maybe Colin isn’t the one who needs help… with friends like these, who needs enemies? Absent Friends premiered in 1974 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and received its London premier a year later at the Garrick Theatre. Sonia Friedman Productions has previously produced Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests which, following its sell-out run at the Old Vic, transferred triumphantly to Broadway in 2009. Katherine Parkinson (Diana) is best known on television for playing Jen in the Channel 4 series The IT Crowd, a role for which she won the British Comedy Best Actress Award. She is soon to be seen on BBC 1 playing Conceptiva in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff alongside Robert Webb. Her theatre credits include Pattie in Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre, Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Barbican as well as roles in Cock and The Seagull for the Royal Court and Other Hand and Flush for Soho Theatre. Her other television credits include Doc Martin, The Old Guys and The Great Outdoors. Her film credits include St Trinian’s II: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, The Boat that Rocked, Easy Virtue and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Reece Shearsmith (Colin), a quarter of the hugely successful award-wining comedy team The League of Gentlemen and co-creator and writer of the BBC’s Psychoville, has recently completed a run as Gilbert Chivers in Betty Blue Eyes. Previously he has been seen on stage in Ghost Stories at the Duke of York’s Theatre, Comedians at the Lyric Hammersmith. Shearsmith also played Leo Bloom in The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane as well as Jacques in As You Like It at the Wyndhams’ Theatre and Yvan in Art at the Whitehall Theatre. His other television credits include the critically acclaimed Catterick (Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer’s BBC road trip comedy series), Channel 4’s Spaced and Horrible Histories. His film work includes Burke and Hare, The Cottage, Birthday Girl, Shaun of the Dead and The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse. in which he stared and co-wrote. Elizabeth Berrington (Marge) was last on stage playing Bev in Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party at Hampstead Theatre and in the West End. She will next be seen on television playing Paula in the BBC 1 Christmas Eve comedy, Lapland. On television her more recent credits include food technology teacher Ruby Fry in Waterloo Road, Dr Who, Crimson Petal and the White, Psychoville and A Touch of Frost and well as playing Marie-Antoinette in the French and Saunders series Let Them Eat Cake. On film her credits include In Bruges, Nanny McPhee, A Cock and Bull Story, Onegin and Mike Leigh’s Naked and Secrets and Lies. Kara Tointon (Evelyn) has most recently played Eliza Doolittle to great critical acclaim in Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre alongside Rupert Everett and Diana Rigg. Tointon is best known on television for playing Dawn Swann in EastEnders, a role she played for four years. Other television roles include Bedlam, The Bill and Dream Team. Her film credits include The Last Passenger, The Sweeney and Just My Luck. Tointon was the winner of the 2010 Strictly Come Dancing series. Steffan Rhodri (Paul) can currently be seen in The Kitchen Sink at the Bush Theatre. On television he is best known for playing Dave Coaches in Gavin and Stacey. His previous theatre credits include Clybourne Park for the Royal Court and Abigail’s Party for Hampstead and The New Ambassadors Theatres. Other TV includes roles in Crawford Park, Belonging, Wire In The Blood and Tales From a Pleasure Beach. His film credits include Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ironclad, Submarine and Ali G Indahouse. David Armand (John) is best known for his roles in the TV sketch shows Sorry I’ve Got No Head and Fast and Loose, as well as The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Peep Show, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show and The Armstrong and Miller Show. His stage credits include The Secret Policeman’s Ball at the Royal Albert Hall, Local for the Royal Court Upstairs and The Hollow Man: A Tribute and Live at the Lounge at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His other television credits include How Not To Live Your Life and Pulling. His film credits include Elizabeth: The Golden Age and St. Trinian’s. Jeremy Herrin is Associate Director of the Royal Court where he directed the UK premiere of David Hare's The Vertical Hour as well as Richard Bean’s The Heretic and Polly Stenham's award-winning That Face which subsequently transferred to the West End. His other recent theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing starring Charles Edwards and Eve Best at Shakespeare’s Globe earlier this year and South Downs for the Chichester Festival Theatre. Herrin will direct Joe Penhall’s Haunted Child for the Royal Court opening in December this year and in 2012 he will direct Matthew Dunster’s Children’s Children at the Almeida Theatre. Olivier and Tony award-winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn has written more than 75 plays, over half of which have been produced in West End as well as on Broadway. Ayckbourn was Artistic Director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough from 1972-2009 and was an Associate Director at the National Theatre from 1986-88. He was awarded a CBE in 1987 and in 1997 was knighted for services to the theatre. Up Up

Back to News & Press John Tiffany's visionary staging of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams to open in January Thursday, 20 October 2016 John Tiffany returns to the West End for the first time since the international critical hit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two , to bring his acclaimed production of The Glass Menagerie to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a limited season. Following its premiere in 2013 at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, a multi Tony Award-nominated run on Broadway at the Booth Theater and a European premiere at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, John Tiffany ’s visionary staging of Tennessee Williams ’ classic play will begin previews on 26 January 2017 with Opening Night on 2 February 2017. Cherry Jones will reprise her Tony Award-nominated Broadway role as Amanda Wingfield, with fellow Edinburgh International Festival cast members Michael Esper (Tom) and Kate O’Flynn (Laura). Brian J. Smith reprises his Tony Award-nominated Broadway role as the Gentleman Caller. Alongside this stellar cast, the Duke of York’s Theatre will be transformed into Tennessee Williams ’ St Louis of the 1930’s by a universally acclaimed creative team. The Glass Menagerie features movement by the Olivier Award-winning Steven Hoggett , who has collaborated with John Tiffany on numerous previous productions including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , Once and Let the Right One In . It is designed by seven-time Tony Award-winner Bob Crowley , lighting design is by six-time Tony Award-winner Natasha Katz with sound design from Olivier and Tony Award-winning Paul Arditti with music by celebrated composer Nico Muhly . Time is the longest distance between two places. A domineering mother. A daughter lost in a world of her own. A son determined to leave. Former Southern Belle, Amanda Wingfield, is desperate to find a husband for her fragile daughter Laura, whilst son Tom dreams of breaking free from their faded St. Louis home. But will the long-awaited ‘gentleman caller’ fulfil or shatter the family’s delicate dreams? Michael Esper and Brian J. Smith are appearing with the support of UK Equity, incorporating the Variety Artistes’ Federation, pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity. Up Up

Back to News & Press Louis McCartney to reprise his award-winning performance as 'Henry Creel' on Broadway in the Olivier Award-winning theatrical event Stranger Things: The First Shadow Thursday, 24 October 2024 Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions are thrilled to announce that Louis McCartney will reprise his award-winning, universally acclaimed performance as ‘Henry Creel’ in the Olivier Award-winning, “mega five-star hit” (Sunday Times) theatrical event STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW , which will mark his Broadway debut. Louis McCartney made his professional stage debut originating the role of ‘Henry Creel’ in the West End production of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW , which earned him The Stage 2024 Debut Award for Best Performer in a Play and the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer. His titanic performance was heralded as “excellent” by Time Out, “spellbinding” by the Daily Telegraph and “one of the most breathtaking debut performances in the West End” by Deadline. Louis McCartney will play his final performance in the West End production of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW on Sunday, November 10, 2024. Director Stephen Daldry and Co-Director Justin Martin said, “Louis is an astonishing actor, and we are unbelievably proud of the incredible life he has breathed into the role of Henry Creel onstage in the West End. From the moment we first met him, we knew he was special, and we are thrilled that Broadway audiences will have the opportunity to witness his extraordinary performance.” Additional casting will be announced at a later date. STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW will begin performances Friday, March 28, 2025 and officially open Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre (210 West 46th Street). Based on an original story by the Duffer Brothers , Jack Thorne and Kate Trefry , and rooted in the mythology and world of the Netflix global phenomenon, STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW is a new play written by Kate Trefry , directed by Stephen Daldry and co-directed by Justin Martin . Before the world turned upside down. Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy…and the shadows of the past have a very long reach. From Netflix and the multi-award-winning Broadway producer Sonia Friedman Productions comes STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW. Winner of two Olivier Awards including Best Entertainment, this landmark production is brought to life by an award-winning creative team including director Stephen Daldry (The Crown, Billy Elliot, The Inheritance, The Hours, The Reader) and co-director Justin Martin (Prima Facie, The Inheritance). With stunning special effects, extraordinary performances, and a storyline that will keep you on the edge of your seat, this gripping, stand-alone adventure will take you right back to the beginnings of the Stranger Things story. Tickets are now on sale at www.StrangerThingsBroadway.com and start at $86. Up Up

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman Productions celebrates 15 Olivier Award Nominations Tuesday, 5 March 2019 Full list of SFP nominees: BEST NEW PLAY The Inheritance BEST REVIVAL Summer and Smoke BEST DIRECTOR Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance Rebecca Frecknall, Summer and Smoke BEST ACTOR Kyle Soller, The Inheritance BEST ACTRESS Gillian Anderson, All About Eve Patsy Ferran, Summer and Smoke BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Monica Dolan, All About Eve Vanessa Redgrave, The Inheritance BEST SET DESIGN Bob Crowley, The Inheritance BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Jon Clark, The Inheritance Lee Curran, Summer and Smoke BEST SOUND DESIGN Carolyn Downing, Summer and Smoke Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid, The Inheritance OUSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC Paul Englishby, The Inheritance The full list of nominees can be found here: https://officiallondontheatre.com/news/company-and-come-from-away-lead-olivier-awards-2019-nominations Up Up

Back to News & Press Full Company Announced for Critically Acclaimed Olivier Award-winning STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions today announce the full company who will join the critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning, world première production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow . The new company begins performances at the Phoenix Theatre on 12 November 2025, ahead of the second anniversary of the West End production and the release of the highly anticipated fifth and final season of the hit Netflix series. Current cast members Ammar Duffus (Charles Sinclair), Jack Gardner (Walter Henderson), Andy Langtree (Victor Creel), Lauren O'Neil (Virginia Creel) and Rufus Wright (Principal Newby) and the previously announced Jack Christou (Henry Creel), Stewart Clarke (Dr Brenner), Avril Maponga (Patty Newby), Max Potter (Bob Newby), Adam Wadsworth (James Hopper Jr.) and Edie Wright (Joyce Maldonado) are joined by a new company including Maximillian Graham (Alan Munson), Anastasia Koloko (Sue Anderson), Joshua McElroy (Lonnie Byers), Grace Alice Murray (Claudia Yount), Tom O'Brien (Ted Wheeler), Freya Taylor-Lester (Karen Childress), Andrew Whipp (Chief Hopper). To alternate the role of Alice Creel current cast members Maya Guinoubi and Tabitha Morley are joined by Phoenix Hamer and Emilia Rose . Completing the company are Lola Adaja ,Bronte Alice-Tadman , Aoife Browne , Kaylah Copeland , Alex Dargie , Adéoré Edwards , Vanessa Fisher , Kieran Garland , Ross Green , Brandon Kimrayo , Ben Skym , Leah St Luce , Stanley Treshansky and Selena Thompson . The multi award-winning hit production is now running on both sides of the Atlantic, having opened on Broadway earlier this year. Its numerous accolades in London include the Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Set Design, the Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Set Design and Most Promising Newcomer, and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play. On Broadway the play became the most nominated of the 2025 season, winning 4 Tony Awards including a special Tony Award for Illusions and Technical Effects. The Broadway production is currently booking tickets through March 2026 at The Marquis Theater. Earlier this year, Netflix released the official documentary, Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow , which offers an electrifying look backstage during the making of the critically acclaimed, award-winning play in the lead up to its world premiere at London’s Phoenix Theatre in December 2023. It is available to watch now exclusively on Netflix. Up Up

Back to News & Press Private Lives with Kim Cattarall is heading to Broadway this fall! Monday, 4 July 2011 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 (239 West 45th Street). Previews will begin on Sunday November 6; opening night is Thursday November 17. The limited engagement runs through February 5 2012. 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 the 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. 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. 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. The design team is Rob Howell (set and costumes) and David Howe (lighting). Private Lives is produced by Duncan C. Weldon, Paul Elliott, Theatre Royal Bath, Terri and Timothy Childs, Sonia Friedman Productions and David Mirvish. KIM CATTRALL previously starred in Private Lives in London’s West End also directed by Sir Richard Eyre, and in the UK stage production of Antony and Cleopatra for director Janet Suzman. She made her Broadway debut in Wild Honey with Sir Ian McKellen. Her TV and film roles include HBO’s “Sex and the City,” as well as the two screen adaptations of the series; PBS’s “Any Human Heart” based on the William Boyd novel; Meet Monica Velour; and Roman Polanski’s, The Ghost Writer, starring opposite Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor. She is recipient of a Golden Globe Award; a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy); two Screen Actors Guild Awards; five Emmy Award nominations and three Screen Actors' Guild nominations. Cattrall has also written several books, including the best seller Sexual Intelligence; Being a Girl: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Teenage Life; and Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm, a New York Times best seller. She is the founder of Fertile Ground Productions, a Canadian-based production company. In 2009 Cattrall was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame and in 2011 was honored by GLAAD with the prestigious Golden Gate Award for her support of the organization. PAUL GROSS is one of Canada’s most popular actors and is internationally known as Constable Benton Fraser on the award-winning series Due South and received two Gemini Awards (Canada’s Emmy) for his portrayal of Geoffrey Tenant in the acclaimed series Slings & Arrows. He received the Golden Nymph Award for H2O at the Monaco Film Festival. He wrote, directed, produced and starred in the feature films Men with Brooms, and Passchendaele, two of the highest grossing Canadian films and winner of a combined six Genie Awards (Canada’s Oscar) including Best Picture. He recently starred on TV’s “Eastwick,” based on the movie The Witches of Eastwick. Other credits include Armistead Maupin's “Tales of the City” and Barney's Version. On stage, Gross has received Dora Awards for Romeo and Juliet and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme. He performed the title role in the Stratford Festival’s 2000 production of Hamlet. SIMON PAISLEY DAY’s London stage credits include Private Lives; Timon of Athens; Entertaining Mr. Sloane; The 39 Steps; The Philanthropist (Donmar); The Coast of Utopia, Twelfth Night and Anything Goes (all at The National Theatre). TV includes “Doctor Who,” “Red Dwarf,” and “Spartacus.” ANNA MADELEY’s London credits include three seasons with the RSC; The Roman Actor opposite Antony Sher; Colder Than Here; The Philanthropist; The Cosmonaut’s Last Message…(Donmar); and Coram Boy at The National. CAROLINE LENA OLSSON’s London credits include Private Lives; Carmen at the Royal Opera House directed by Francesca Zambello; This Child; War Crime; GOF and Dickens of a Christmas. Film and TV includes Children of Men and “Vanity Fair". RICHARD EYRE was director of London’s Royal National Theatre from 1988-1997. He has directed many classics and new plays by David Hare, Christopher Hampton, Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett, Trevor Griffiths, Tony Harrison and Nicholas Wright. His Broadway and London credits include Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Amy’s View, Vincent in Brixton, Judas Kiss, Stanley, Skylight; Racing Demon; Indiscretions; Arcadia, An Inspector Calls and Mary Poppins. He has won five Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, three Critics Circle Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild, and has directed many award-winning films for TV and four feature films: The Ploughman’s Lunch, the Oscar®-nominated Iris (which he co-wrote), Stage Beauty and Notes on a Scandal. NOËL COWARD is widely known as the creator of a number of stage classics and as the composer of songs such as “I’ll See You Again,” “Mad About the Boy” and “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.” His comedies include Present Laughter; The Vortex; Private Lives; Blithe Spirit; Hay Fever; and Design for Living. Operettas and musical plays include Bitter Sweet; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Operette; and Sail Away. He appeared in several films, including Our Man in Havana; The Italian Job; Bunny Lake Is Missing and Boom! In 1942 he received an Academy Award for outstanding production achievement for In Which We Serve, that he produced, co-directed, scored and starred in. He wrote the screenplay to Brief Encounter based on his play Still Life. As a cabaret artist he appeared in Las Vegas in 1955 with a show of his own songs. In 1960, his first novel, Pomp and Circumstance, was on the best seller list in the U.S. for 16 weeks. He was the author of two autobiographical books, Present Indicative and Future Indefinite, and a book of poems entitled Not Yet the Dodo. Coward was knighted in 1970 and died in 1973. Up Up

Back to News & Press Peter Wight and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor join Toby Jones, Stephen Mangan, Zoë Wanamaker and Pearl Mackie in The Birthday Party Monday, 30 October 2017 The production will run at the Harold Pinter Theatre , 60 years since the play’s debut, from 9th January to 14th April 2018 with an Opening Night on Thursday 18th January 2018. Tickets are now on sale. Stanley Webber (Toby Jones ) is the only lodger at Meg (Zoë Wanamaker ) and Petey Boles’ (Peter Wight ) sleepy seaside boarding house. The unsettling arrival of enigmatic strangers Goldberg (Stephen Mangan ) and McCann (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor ) disrupts the humdrum lives of the inhabitants and their friend Lulu (Pearl Mackie ), and mundanity soon becomes menace when a seemingly innocent birthday party turns into a disturbing nightmare. Truth and alliances hastily shift in Pinter's brilliantly mysterious dark-comic masterpiece about the absurd terrors of the everyday. PETER WIGHT ’S theatre credits include: Hamlet (Almeida/West End); The Red Lion , Ivanov, Sleep With Me, Murmuring Judges, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Black Snow, Waiting for Godot (National Theatre); The Seagull (Royal Court/Broadway); Trelawny of The Wells (Donmar Warehouse); Otherwise Engaged, Chekhov's Women (West End); The Spanish Tragedy, Much Ado About Nothing, Barbarians, A Clockwork Orange, Hamlet (RSC); In The Republic of Happiness, In Basildon, Face to the Wall, Not A Game for Boys (Royal Court); The Caretaker (Globe Theatre Warsaw); Edward II, Mouth to Mouth (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Dearly Beloved, Grace (Hampstead Theatre); A State of Affairs, Othello, Commedia, Progress (Lyric Hammersmith); Julius Caesar (Riverside Studios); A Passion in Six Days, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nest (Sheffield Crucible); King Lear, The Three Sisters (Birmingham Rep); Hard To Get (Traverse Edinburgh). His television work includes: Vanity Fair, Brief Encounters, I Want My Wife Back, Our Zoo, The Mimic, The Paradise, Hit and Miss, Public Enemies, Titanic, Money, Monday Monday, Boy Meets Girl, 10 Days to War, Party Animals, Eastenders, Persuasion, Fantabulosa!, Early Doors, Room at the Top, The Security Men, and Uncle Adolf. Film includes: The Program, Mr Turner, King of Soho, Brakes, Only You, Kon-Tiki, Hard Boiled Sweets, Clone, Atonement, Hot Fuzz, Lassie, Babel, Pride and Prejudice, The Statement, Lucky Break, Shiner and with Mike Leigh, Another Year, Mr Turner, Vera Drake, Naked, Secrets & Lies and Meantime. TOM VAUGHAN-LAWLOR trained at RADA. His theatre credits include: The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Translation (National Theatre); Howie the Rookie (Barbican London/ BAM NY); Our Few and Evil Days, The Rivals, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Three Sisters, Saved, The School for Scandal, The Playboy of the Western World (Abbey Theatre); 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre); All My Sons (West End); Molly Sweeney (Curve Leicester); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin); The Lady from the Sea (Birmingham Rep); Henry V (Royal Exchange Manchester); The Field (Tricycle Theatre) and The Lime Tree Bower (Young Vic). His television work has included: The Secret Agent , Trial of the Century , Charlie , Love / Hate , and Peaky Blinders . Film includes: Avengers: Infinity War , The Cured , Maze , Daphne, The Infiltrator, The Secret Scripture, Becoming Jane , and A Tiger's Tale . He has won multiple awards, including: Irish Times Best Actor Award for Howie the Rookie ; Irish Times Best Actor Award for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ; Ian Charleson commendation for Henry V and the Irish Film and Television Best Actor Award for Love / Hate . The production will be designed by the Quay Brothers , with lighting by Hugh Vanstone , sound by Simon Baker , music by Stephen Warbeck and casting by Amy Ball . Sonia Friedman Productions in association with Rupert Gavin , Tulchin Bartner Productions , 1001 Nights Productions , Scott M. Delman present Harold Pinter ’s The Birthday Party , Directed by Ian Rickson . Up Up

Back to News & Press Nice Work receives ten Tony nominations Tuesday, 22 May 2012 NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT has ten Tony Award nominations include Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Joe DiPietro), Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Kelli O'Hara), Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical (Michael McGrath), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Judy Kaye), Best Direction of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Best Choreography (Kathleen Marshall), Best Orchestrations (Bill Elliott), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Martin Pakledinaz), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Brian Ronan). The nine Drama Desk Award nominations include Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Kelli O’Hara), Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Judy Kaye), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael McGrath), Outstanding Director of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Outstanding Choreography (Kathleen Marshall), Outstanding Book of a Musical (Joe DiPietro), Outstanding Costume Design (Martin Pakledinaz), Outstanding Orchestrations (Bill Elliott). The show won two Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Judy Kaye) and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael McGrath). The Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro, stars twotime Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick and four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara. The production is directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall. The production is playing at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street). In addition to Matthew Broderick as Jimmy Winter and Kelli O’Hara as Billie Bendix, the production also stars Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons as Millicent Winter, Tony Award-winner Judy Kaye as Estonia Dulworth, Tony Award nominee Michael McGrath as Cookie McGee, Tony Award nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson as Eileen Evergreen, Chris Sullivan as Duke Mahoney, Robyn Hurder as Jeannie Muldoon, Stanley Wayne Mathis as Chief Berry and Terry Beaver as Senator Max Evergreen. The cast also features Cameron Adams, Clyde Alves, Kaitlyn Davidson, Jason DePinto, Kimberly Faure, Robert Hartwell, Stephanie Martignetti, Barrett Martin, Michael X. Martin, Adam Perry, Jeffrey Schecter, Jennifer Smith, Joey Sorge, Samantha Sturm, Kristen Beth Williams and Candice Marie Woods. The creative team includes scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski, sound design by Brian Ronan and orchestrations by Bill Elliott. The music supervisor is David Chase and the music director Tom Murray. This new musical features a veritable hit parade of iconic George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin songs as well as some unknown gems in their catalog, and a book by Joe DiPietro. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT follows Billie Bendix (Kelli O'Hara), a bootlegger who meets wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter (Matthew Broderick) on the weekend of his nuptials. Mayhem ensues. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT is produced on Broadway by Scott Landis, Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman Productions, Roy Furman, Standing CO Vation, Candy Spelling, Freddy DeMann, Ronald Frankel, Harold Newman, Jon B. Platt, Raise the Roof 8, Takonkiet Viravan, William Berlind/Ed Burke, Carole L. Haber/Susan Carusi, Buddy and Barbara Freitag/Sanford Robertson, Under the Wire/Jim Herbert, Emanuel Azenberg, The Shubert Organization. Up Up

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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO “SFP” and “Sonia Friedman Productions” (and “we”, “our”, “ours” and “us”) refers to “Sonia Friedman Productions”, a leading West End and Broadway production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in London and New York, registered in England and Wales with registration number 4302464 and whose registered office is at Alexander House, Church Path, Woking, Surrey GU21 6EJ. 2. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION What information will you collect from me? When you use our website or other services, we may collect and use your information in several different ways. The main reasons are: Because you have consented – in certain situations, we collect and process your personal information with your consent; For our legitimate business interests, namely to analyse the use of our websites and services to continually improve your customer experience and our business, keeping you informed about our productions via direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us offer you relevant products and services, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and/or services. How and when we collect your personal information Generally, we collect your information when you decide to interact with us. This could be when you sign up to receive emails from us or agree to our cookie policy when using our website. We also look at how customers use our website, so that we can offer the best possible experience. We collect information in a number of ways, which are listed below: When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints etc; When you engage with us on social media; When you enter any event, prize draws or competitions run by us. When you visit our website. We may use cookies to help make the experience of using our website better and to personalise the service you receive from us – this means we will remember your previous visits and track the pages on our website that you visit. For more information please see our Cookie Policy. The tables set out below go into more detail about what we do with your personal information, and why we do it. Information you submit to us We will collect personal information that you submit to us when you make use of our website or services and/or you contact us. Your name and contact details How: When you register to receive emails from us. Why: We need your name and email address to send you the requested emails. How: To respond to your queries, and complaints. Why: To deliver you with the best possible customer service - handling the information you sent enables us to respond. We may also keep a record of these to inform any future communication with us and to demonstrate how we communicated with you throughout. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how we can improve our service based on your experience. How: Sending you information and marketing communications by email, telephone or post, about our products and services. Why: To keep you up to date and to deliver relevant marketing and advertising. We send this with your permission, or where we have a legitimate interest to do so. Of course, you are free to opt-out of hearing from us via these channels at any point. We may send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you. For example, updates to this Privacy Policy. These service messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. If we do not use your personal data for these purposes, we would be unable to comply with our legal obligations. How: Fraud prevention and detection Why: To prevent and detect fraud against either you or us. If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. The aim is to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities How: Showing you adverts as your browse the web. Why: To deliver relevant marketing and advertising that matches your interests and preferences. How: Finding out what you, and other customers, would like. Why: To deliver relevant marketing and advertising that matches your interests and preferences. We have a legitimate interest to do so as this helps make our products or services more relevant to you. Information about your date of birth How we use your date of birth information Why? To ensure that for our Friends and Family mailing list we only send information about age relevant productions. To prevent us inviting Friend and Family to inappropriate productions. Technical Information we collect from you We automatically collect certain limited information about your device and your visits to our websites which may be considered personal information. This information may include the type of data set out below. Device data The type of device or platform that you use to access our website, such as a computer or mobile device. How: To administer our websites and for our own troubleshooting, analysis, testing, research and statistical purposes Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website How: To improve and optimise our websites and the way content is presented Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website How: Protect our website Why: To prevent and detect fraud against either you or us. If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. The aim is to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities How: To allow you to use interactive features of our website Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website Location data Your use of our websites and services may generate geographical data, e.g. the location or time zone of a device, or an IP address which we may collect. How: Postcode data is collected and stored Why: To improve our marketing communications to you How: Protect our website and your online account Why: To prevent and detect fraud against either you or us. If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. The aim is to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities How: Protect our website Why: To prevent and detect fraud against either you or us. If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. The aim is to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities How: To administer our websites and for our own troubleshooting, analysis, testing, research and statistical purposes Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website Log data about your visit Information about your unique visit to our website, such as URLs, your internet service providers, the number and timing of clicks to and from our website, which events you view, page response times, download errors, length of visit to our website pages, page interaction data (e.g. scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), email engagement rates and activities and methods to browse away from the page. How: To administer our websites and for our own troubleshooting, analysis, testing, research and statistical purposes Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website How: To improve and optimise our websites and the way content is presented Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website How: To measure the effectiveness of advertising, and deliver relevant advertising which matches user interests and preferences Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website Information we receive from other sources Certain third parties may provide us with personal information about you. In each case, it is the third party’s responsibility to ensure that is has obtained your consent to share your personal information with us. Where possible, we will ask a third party to confirm that it has the right to pass this information to us. Third party services You may give us permission to access your personal information in other third-party services, e.g. you may link your account to Facebook or Instagram, which allows us to access content on these platforms. How: To improve and optimise our websites and the way content is presented Why: To allow us to create the best possible experience for you whilst using our website How: To understand more about you Why: To allow us to create the best possible customer experience and offer our customers relevant products Collation of personal information We may collate different categories of information that we collect about you. Where this is the case, and where such collated data amounts to personal information, we will process this data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 3. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION We will never sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your personal information to third parties without your consent except to the extent required by applicable laws and regulations, or as set out in this Privacy Policy. However, we share your data with the following categories of companies as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement of our websites and the services we provide. Exceptional circumstances We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if: We undergo a change of control or any of our business or assets are sold or transferred (in which case we may disclose your personal information to the buyer to enable them to continue providing services to you); We are under a duty to disclose or share your information to comply with any legal obligation (for example, a court order); or We need to protect our rights, property, the safety of our website users/customers or to help prevent fraud or crime. This may include exchanging personal information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection or with governmental and law enforcement authorities. Anonymised data We may anonymise personal information so that you can no longer be identified from such information. 4. YOUR INFORMATION AND DIRECT MARKETING Where you have consented or where we have a legitimate interest, we will use your personal information to contact you via email with relevant information about SFP. How to stop marketing messages from SFP You can stop receiving marketing messages from us at any time. You can do this: By clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any marketing email; or By emailing us at mypersonaldata@soniafriedman.com . Once you do this, we will update your profile to ensure that you don’t receive any further marketing messages. However, please note that it might take a few days for our systems to be updated, so you might continue to receive messages from us whilst we process your request. 5. THIRD PARTY LINKS Our websites and communications with you may provide links to the websites of third parties. Please remember that when you use a link to go from one of our websites to another website, or you request a service from a third party, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, or your dealings with any other third-party service provider, are subject to that website’s or third-party service provider’s own rules and policies. We do not monitor, control, or endorse the privacy practices of any third parties. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website that you visit or third-party service provider that you deal with, and to contact them if you have any questions about their respective privacy policies and practices. This privacy policy applies solely to personal information collected by us through our websites and does not apply to these third-party websites and third-party service providers. 6. HOW WE KEEP AND STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION Retaining your personal information. We keep your personal information for as long as we require for the purposes for which it was collected (see above). Once the relevant purpose has been satisfied we will securely delete or anonymise your personal information unless we are required to retain a copy of such information under applicable law. Where we store your personal information. All personal information that you provide is stored on our secure servers or those of our suppliers which may be situated outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Your information may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Where we transfer personal information outside of the EEA we will ensure that adequate contractual safeguards are in place (e.g. the European Commission’s standard data protection clauses or “model clauses”), to ensure the security of your personal information is maintained when it is processed by the third party. 7. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION We are committed to keeping your personal information secure. We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of all personal information we hold (and endeavour to only work with third parties who provide equivalent protections) in accordance with industry best practices. However, please note that there are inherent security implications of disclosing personal information online for which we cannot be held responsible. 8. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION You have rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you, and have the right to: A copy of your personal information which we hold about you; Request that we correct any personal information that is inaccurate or out of date; Withdraw your consent to processing at any time if we have relied on your consent to process your personal information; Request in certain circumstances that your personal information is removed from our systems where it is no longer necessary for us to hold your personal information; Request in certain circumstances that we transmit your personal information that we hold elsewhere (known as “data portability”); Object to us processing your personal information. In this instance, we will stop processing your personal information if we are relying on it for our own or someone else’s legitimate interests (except if we can demonstrate compelling legal grounds for the processing), processing it for direct marketing or processing it for research (unless such processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest); Restrict the processing of your personal information, if you contest the accuracy of the personal information that we hold about you. This means we must stop any processing activities until we have verified the accuracy of the personal information, or we no longer need your personal information; and Contact us directly and be given an explanation about any automated decision-making and profiling that produces a legal (or similarly significant) effect on you. 9. CHANGES TO HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY To ensure that you continue to be aware of how we use your personal information, we will update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect any changes to our use of your personal information. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. If we make significant changes to this Privacy Policy, we will make that clear the next time you access our website or notify you by some other means of contact such as email, so that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use our website and/or services. However, we encourage you to review this privacy notice periodically to be informed of how SFP uses your personal information. 10. HOW WE USE COOKIES We use cookies on our website. For more information on cookies, please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about the cookies we use and how to manage and delete cookies. 11. ANY QUESTIONS? We hope this Privacy Policy is helpful in setting out the way we use your personal information, and your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or you want to exercise your rights, please get in touch with us by: Sending an email to mypersonaldata@soniafriedman.com ; or Writing to: Marketing Department, Sonia Friedman Productions, 5th Floor, 65 Chandos Place, WC2N 4HG. In addition, if you: Wish to request a copy of your personal information, please email mypersonaldata@soniafriedman.com ; or Have a concern or wish to make a complaint about any aspect of our privacy practices, including the way we’ve handled your personal information, you can report it to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”). You can find details about how to do this on the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by calling their helpline on 0303 123 1113. Thank you for visiting our website.

Back to Productions THE DRESSER – TV “The Dresser” aired on Saturday 31st October 2015. Starz , in partnership with the BBC , is producing and airing the television adaptation of Ronald Harwood ’s classic play “The Dresser ,” set against the backdrop of World War II and inspired by Harwood’s own experiences as a dresser for the distinguished British actor/manager Sir Donald Wolfit. 'The Dresser ' marks Sonia Friedman Productions second television drama production, following directly after SFP 's current partnership with Playground Entertainment o n the six-part mini-series adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s 'Wolf Hall'. The movie for television is being directed by Richard Eyre , and stars Anthony Hopkins (Noah, Thor, Silence of the Lambs) as “Sir” and Ian McKellen (The Hobbit franchise, X-Men franchise, Lord of the Rings franchise) as his dresser “Norman.” “The Dresser ” represents the first time Hopkins and McKellen have worked together. It is executive produced by Colin Callender of Playground Entertainment , Sonia Friedman for Sonia Friedman Productions , Polly Hilly , BBC Head of Independent Drama and Ben Stephenson , Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning . “The Dresser ” was commissioned by Stephenson on behalf of BBC Drama and BBC Arts and will air on BBC Two in the UK and STARZ in the U.S. Carmi Zlotnik , Managing Director of Starz , said, “‘The Dresser ’ is a timeless and poignant story about the relationship between artists, and to have this classic play brought to life on-screen by such acting giants as Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen is thrilling. We are glad to be working in partnership again with the BBC and Colin Callender on this very special project, and to be establishing a relationship with acclaimed theatre producer Sonia Friedman .” "This production is a testament to the commitment of the BBC and Starz to bring quality drama to the screen,” Executive Producer Colin Callender said. “It is also a testament to Ronald Harwood's glorious writing that we have been able to bring together such a wonderful creative team from the worlds of film, television and the theatre." The movie directed by Richard Eyre and produced by Colin Callender 's Playground Entertainment and Sonia Friedman Productions. CAST ANTHONY HOPKINS – Sir IAN MCKELLEN – Norman EMILY WATSON – Her Ladyship SARAH LANCASHIRE – Madge CREATIVES RICHARD EYRE – Writer and Director STEPHEN WARBECK – Music BEN SMITHARD – Cinematographer

Back to News & Press Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof extends due to public demand Friday, 29 March 2019 Chocolate Factory Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions and Michael Harrison presentThe Menier Chocolate Factory production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Book by Joseph Stein Music by Jerry Bock Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Director Trevor Nunn ; Choreographers Jerome Robbins & Matt Cole ; Set Designer Robert Jones Costume Designer Jonathan Lipman ; Hair and Make Up Designer Richard Mawbey Lighting Designer Tim Lutkin ; Sound Designer Gregory Clarke Musical Supervisor & Director Paul Bogaev ; Orchestrations Jason Carr Trevor Nunn ’s critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof , which opened this week at the reconfigured Playhouse Theatre, has extended its run due to public demand – the production, which broke box office records with the highest advance of any show at the theatre, is now booking until 28 September. Nunn directs a cast including Andy Nyman (Tevye), Judy Kuhn (Golde), Nicola Brown (Chava), Harriet Bunton (Hodel), Dermot Canavan (Lazar Wolf), Stewart Clarke (Perchik), Joshua Gannon (Motel), Matthew Hawksley (Fyedka), Louise Gold (Yente), and Molly Osborne (Tzeitel), as well as Miles Barrow , Sofia Bennett , Philip Bertioli , Lottie Casserley , Elena Cervesi, Lia Cohen , Talia Etherington , Shoshana Ezequiel , Isabella Foat, Fenton Gray , James Hameed , Adam Linstead , Adam Margilewski , Robert Maskell , Benny Maslov , Robyn McIntyre , Gaynor Miles , Ellie Mullane , Tania Newton , Craig Pinder , Valentina Theodoulou and Ed Wade . ★★★★★ ‘Musically, geopolitically, emotionally, this Fiddler raises the roof.’ The Guardian Direct from its sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Tony and Olivier award-winning director Trevor Nunn’s ‘exuberant revival’ (Daily Telegraph) of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof transfers to the West End for a strictly limited run. The Playhouse Theatre has been specially transformed into an immersive space for this ‘shiveringly intimate chamber musical about family’ (The Times). ★★★★★ ‘An evening to be celebrated as a spikily poignant reminder of what it is to be human in politically dark times. Both whirlingly energetic and achingly moving, it marks itself out straight away as one of the most uplifting nights possible to be had in the West End right now.’ The Arts Desk Old traditions and young love collide in this joyous and timely celebration of life. Tevye’s daughters’ unexpected choice of husbands opens his heart to new possibilities, as his close-knit community also feel winds of change blowing through their tiny village. Featuring the iconic score including ‘Tradition’, ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker’, ‘Sunrise, Sunset’ and ‘If I Were a Rich Man’, and featuring original choreography from Tony Award-winning Jerome Robbins alongside new choreography by Matt Cole, Fiddler on the Roof ‘bursts from the stage’ (Financial Times), bringing new life to one of the most beloved musicals of all time. Visit the website: https://fiddlerwestend.com/ Up Up