Back to Productions MARIA FRIEDMAN LIVE This strictly limited production ran from 22nd April until 27th April 2002. Sonia Friedman Productions presents “MARIA FRIEDMAN LIVE ”. CAST MARIA FRIEDMAN CREATIVES SIMON LEE & JASON CARR – Musical Direction and Arrangements MATTHEW O'CONNOR – Lighting Designer SCOTT GEORGE – Sound Designer

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman: The West End queen driving this prince of Denmark Sunday, 9 August 2015 "The producer with a gift for creativity, winning awards and making money looks to have another hit with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet." Read the full Sunday Times article here . Up Up

Back to News & Press Harry Potter and the Cursed Child wins the South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award Sunday, 9 July 2017 On Sunday 9th July, the winners of the 21st South Bank Sky Arts Awards were revealed at The Savoy Hotel, the only awards to focus on the arts in their entirety and celebrate the best of culture in the UK across 10 categories. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was thrilled to be announced as the winner of the Theatre Award. Congratulations to the entire company and creative team. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Sky Arts on Wednesday 12th July. Up Up

Back to News & Press Sunny Afternoon announces UK Tour beginning in 2020 Monday, 9 December 2019 Sunny Afternoon tells the story of the early life of Ray Davies and the rise to stardom of The Kinks , who exploded on to the 60s music scene with a raw, energetic new sound that rocked a nation. Recipient of four Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical and Outstanding Achievement in Music for Ray Davies , Sunny Aftrernoon features some of The Kinks’ best-loved songs, including You Really Got Me, Waterloo Sunset, All Day and All of the Night and Lola . Producer Sonia Friedman said today, “I’ve loved this musical from the moment Ray Davies , Joe Penhall , Ed Hall and I started to develop it several years ago and am incredibly excited and proud that we are bringing back our joyous and celebratory Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical. For those who missed it the first-time round, UK audiences will have the treat of experiencing it for the very first time or, if you’ve seen it before, you’ll be able to see it again and again! The Kinks helped shape a generation and Ray’s beautifully truthful lyrics and music are as exhilarating and relevant today as the day he wrote them. I’m so happy we will all get a chance to see Sunny Afternoon soon - I’ve missed it in my life.” Ray Davies added, “In these times of political uncertainties, it is a relief to know that Sunny Afternoon is on the horizon to lift our spirits”. Set against the backdrop of a Britain caught mid-swing between the conservative 50s and riotous 60s, this production explores the euphoric highs and agonising lows of one of Britain’s most celebrated bands and the irresistible music that influenced generations. Following a sell-out run at Hampstead Theatre, Sunny Afternoon opened to critical acclaim at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End in October 2014 where it ran for two years ahead of its critically-acclaimed, five-star tour of the UK and Ireland throughout 2016/17. Sunny Afternoon has music and lyrics by Ray Davies with a book by Joe Penhall and original story by Ray Davies . It is directed by Edward Hall and designed by Miriam Buether with choreography by Adam Cooper . Lighting design is by Rick Fisher with sound design by Matt McKenzie . Musical and vocal adaptations are by Ray Davies and Elliott Ware based on original Kinks’ recordings. Producers of the Sunny Afternoon UK tour include Sonia Friedman Productions , Ambassador Theatre Group Productions with Adam Blanshay Productions , Rupert Gavin . Tour schedule and further dates to be announced: www.sunnyafternoonthemusical.com Up Up

Back to News & Press 1984 is Back! Wednesday, 29 April 2015 A new adaptation created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan 1984 returns to West End for 12 week run Prior to international tour 12 June – 5 September 2015 The production, which premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in September 2013, has since played to sell-out houses at the Almeida Theatre, in the West End, and across the UK on a national tour. 101 seats for every performance will be available for £19.84. Casting to be announced. April, 1984. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought and starts a diary. But Big Brother is always watching, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical, award-winning adaptation exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever. 1984 is written and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, set and costume designed by Chloe Lamford, with lighting designed by Natasha Chivers, sound designed by Tom Gibbons and video designed by Tim Reid. George Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, is one of the most influential novels in recent history, with its chilling depiction of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance and incessant public mind-control. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell’s fiction is often said to be our reality. For more informaiton and to book your tickets visit: 1984theplay.co.uk Following the run at the Playhouse Theatre, 1984 will tour to the following venues (exact dates tba): 9- 26 Sep 2015 - Nottingham Playhouse, UK 29 Sep- 3 Oct 2015 - Bath Theatre Royal, UK Jan-Feb 2016 – The Broad Stage, Santa Monica CA, USA Feb 2016 – American Repertory Theatre, Boston MA, USA Mar-Apr 2016 – Shakespeare theatre, Washington DC, USA Up Up

Back to Productions INK – BROADWAY This production began performances on 2nd April, opened on 24th April and closed on 7th July 2019. A huge 5-star hit Evening Standard It’s 1969 London. The brash young Rupert Murdoch ( Bertie Carvel ) purchases a struggling paper, The Sun, and sets out to make it a must-read smash which will destroy – and ultimately horrify – the competition. He brings on rogue editor Larry Lamb ( Jonny Lee Miller ) who in turn recruits an unlikely team of underdog reporters. Together, they will go to any lengths for success and the race for the most ink is on! A truly thought-provoking, unmissable evening The Independent Inspired by real events and a recent hit in London’s West End, James Graham ’s electrifying new play comes to Broadway in the exhilarating Almeida Theatre production, directed by Rupert Goold . In its London run, The Guardian called it “riveting,” and Time Out hailed it as “an incredibly brilliant stunner.” Produced with the Almeida Theatre and Sonia Friedman Productions . Lead production support for INK is made possible by a generous grant from The Roy Cockrum Foundation . Additional support provided by Gary L. Churgin , a Producing Fund Partner . An incredibly brilliant stunner Time Out London CAST BERTIE CARVEL JOHNNY LEE MILLER DAVID WILSON BARNES BILL BUELL ANDREW DURAND EDEN MARRYSHOW COLIN MCPHILLAMY ERIN NEUFER KEVIN PARISEAU RANA ROY MICHAEL SIBERRY ROBERT STANTON TARA SUMMERS CREATIVES American Premiere by JAMES GRAHAM RUPERT GOOLD – Director

Back to News & Press Mark Strong & Lesley Manville in OEDIPUS to open on Broadway Friday, 7 March 2025 New York, NY (Thursday, March 6) - Producers Sonia Friedman Productions , Sue Wagner , John Johnson , and Patrick Catullo , in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company , announced today that the sold-out, West End sensation Oedipus a bold and electrifying adaptation created by Robert Icke after Sophocles - will transfer to Broadway this fall for a strictly limited 14-week engagement. Starring Olivier Award-winners Mark Strong and Lesley Manville , reprising their critically acclaimed and current Olivier-nominated roles as 'Oedipus' and 'Jocasta,' and directed by Icke, Oedipus will begin performances this November at Roundabout's Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street). For more information and to sign up, click here . This production has also been nominated for four 2025 Olivier Awards, including Best Director and Best Revival of a Play, cementing it as one of the most celebrated theatrical events of the year. Strong, last seen on Broadway in the Tony Award®-winning A View From the Bridge (for which he earned a Tony nomination), returns in a career-defining performance. Manville, an Academy Award® nominee, makes her highly anticipated Broadway debut. Hailed as a "tightly sprung, gasp-inducing, modern-day political tale of truth and lies" (The Guardian ), Icke's visionary revival was nothing short of a sensation. After opening at London's Wyndham's Theatre on October 4, 2024, Oedipus became an instant phenomenon, concluding its record-breaking run on January 4, 2025. Across 13 electrifying weeks, it became the highest-grossing limited-run production in Wyndham's history, with its final week setting a new box office record for the storied venue. "Electric" (Observer ) and urgent, it didn't just bring Greek tragedy back to the West End—it redefined it. Named the Observer's No. 1 Best of Culture 2024, this Oedipus played like a political thriller, gripping audiences in breathless suspense until its final, devastating moment. It's election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. After his revelatory Oresteia , Icke (1984 , The Doctor ) transforms Sophocles' epic tragedy into an essential, explosive, sensual human thriller catapulting the secrets of the past into a high-stakes present. Led by Olivier Award winners and current 2025 nominees Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, this production "set the stage on fire" (The Guardian ). Manville's 'Jocasta' is "magnetic and magnificent" (iNews ), while Strong delivers a "fearless, sometimes fearsome" (Independent ) performance, brimming with raw intensity and tragic inevitability. Their chemistry is "dazzling" (Sunday Times ), their presence "transfixing" (Financial Times ), and together, they drive the drama toward its shattering conclusion. Robert Icke's Oedipus was originally produced in Dutch by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival. This fall, Broadway audiences will experience what London critics and theatergoers already know: Oedipus isn't just a revival. It's a revelation. Up Up

Back to Productions LEOPOLDSTADT – WEST END This production opened on 25th January 2020 and closed on 30th October 2021. ★★★★★ Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. Magnificent. The Independent At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann’s extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and – for Austrian Jews – the Holocaust in which 65,000 of them were murdered. It is for the survivors to pass on a story which hasn’t ended yet. ★★★★ Tom Stoppard delivers an unforgettable play from the heart Telegraph Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (The Times ), Tom Stoppard ’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber , is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good. Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. Tom Stoppard ’s most humane and heart-breaking play. ★★★★ Tom Stoppard’s new masterwork is an early contender for play for the year. Evening Standard CAST SEBASTIAN ARMESTO – Jacob/Nathan/Ludwig JENNA AUGEN – Rosa CARA BALLINGALL – Jana RHYS BAILEY – Young Nathan FAYE CASTELOW – Gretl JOE COEN – Policeman/Zac FELICITY DAVIDSON – Hilde MARK EDEL-HUNT – Civilian/Fritz CLARA FRANCIS – Wilma ARTY FROUSHAN – Leo ILAN GALKOFF – Pauli CAROLINE GRUBER – Emilia SAM HOARE – Percy NATALIE LAW – Hanna AVYE LEVENTIS – Sally AIDAN MCARDLE – Hermann MACY NYMAN – Hermine NOOF OUSELLAM – Otto DOROTHEA MYER-BENNETT – Eva JAKE NEADS – Mohel/Policeman AARON NEIL – Ernst ALEXANDER NEWLAND – Kurt SADIE SHIMMIN – Poldi GRIFFIN STEVENS – Aaron ELEANOR WYLD – Nellie CREATIVES TOM STOPPARD – Playwright PATRICK MARBER – Director RICHARD HUDSON – Set Design BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL – Costume Design NEIL AUSTIN – Lighting Design ADAM CORK – Sound and Original Music EMILY JANE BOYLE – Movement AMY BALL CDG – Casting VERITY NAUGHTON – Children's Casting

Back to News & Press 32 Tony Award nominations for SFP's Broadway productions and co-productions Monday, 30 April 2018 The staggering 32 nominations are as follows: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child BEST PLAY Based on an Original New Story by J.K. Rowling , Jack Thorne and John Tiffany . A new play by Jack Thorne BEST DIRECTOR John Tiffany BEST LEAD ACTOR Jamie Parker BEST FEATURED ACTRESS Noma Dumezweni BEST FEATURED ACTOR Anthony Boyle BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Steven Hoggett BEST SCENIC DESIGN Christine Jones BEST COSTUME DESIGN Katrina Lindsay BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Neil Austin BEST SOUND DESIGN Gareth Fry Mean Girls BEST MUSICAL BEST BOOK Tina Fey BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin BEST DIRECTOR Casey Nicholaw BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Casey Nicholaw BEST LEAD ACTRESS Taylor Louderman BEST FEATURED ACTRESS Ashley Park BEST FEATURED ACTOR Grey Henson BEST SCENIC DESIGN Scott Pask, Finn Ross & Adam Young BEST COSTUME DESIGN Gregg Barnes BEST SOUND DESIGN Brian Ronan BEST ORCHESTRATIONS John Clancy Farinelli and the King BEST PLAY Claire van Kampen BEST LEAD ACTOR Mark Rylance BEST SCENIC DESIGN Jonathan Fensom BEST COSTUME DESIGN Jonathan Fensom BEST LIGHTING DESIGN Paul Russell Travesties BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY BEST DIRECTOR Patrick Marber BEST LEAD ACTOR Tom Hollander BEST SOUND DESIGN Adam Cork 1984 BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY Tom Gibbons Up Up

Back to News & Press Evening Standard nominations announced Monday, 22 November 2010 Nominations included David Suchet (All My Sons) for Best Actor, Sheridan Smith (Legally Blonde) for Best Actress, Legally Blonde for Best Musical and Howard Davies (All My Sons) for Best Director. The Royal Court Theatre production of Clybourne Park, which is to be transferred to the West End by SFP, was also nominated for Best Play with Sophie Thompson receiving a nomination for Best Actress for her performance. Up Up

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

Back to News & Press Patriots is transferring to the West End Thursday, 18 August 2022 Patriots is international award-winning writer Peter Morgan ’s (Frost/Nixon) first new play since The Audience. He is best known for writing the multi-award-winning Netflix hit, The Crown. Patriots is the Almeida’s fastest-selling new play and transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre for a limited twelve-week run from 26 May to 19 August 2023, with Opening Night on 6 June 2023. Directed by the Almeida’s Artistic Director, Rupert Goold (Ink, Enron), Patriots is a brilliant and startlingly timely story of ambition, loyalty and betrayal in a brave new world. BAFTA-winning actor Tom Hollander (The Night Manager; Travesties) reprises his starring role as Boris Berezovsky, the ‘kingmaker’ behind Vladimir Putin, with Will Keen (His Dark Materials) also returning to play Putin and Luke Thallon (Albion) as Abramovich. Further casting will be announced in due course. “If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes” 1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today’s patriot can fast become tomorrow’s traitor.As a new generation of oligarchs fights to seize control, Patriots follows billionaire businessman Boris Berezovsky from the president's inner circle to public enemy number one. The full creative team for Patriots is Director: Rupert Goold , Set Designer: Miriam Buether , Co-Costume Designers: Deborah Andrews and Miriam Buether , Lighting Designer: Jack Knowles , Movement Director Polly Bennett , Sound Designer and Composer: Adam Cork , and Casting Director: Robert Sterne . Up Up