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Back to News & Press The Nether Q&A talks Friday, 16 January 2015 The Nether will host post-show Q&A talks during the play’s West End run at the Duke of York’s Theatre. With members of the creative team, as well as further guests from the worlds of theatre, the media, gaming and technology industries, there will be 6 Q&A talks after selected performances of the play. All Q&A talks are free for The Nether ticket holders. The Nether offers complete freedom – a new virtual wonderland providing total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. An intricate crime drama and a haunting thriller set in the year 2050, The Nether follows an investigation into the complicated, disturbing morality of identity in the digital world, and explores the consequences of making dreams a reality. Previewing at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 30 January and opening on 23 February, Jennifer Haley’s critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning play The Nether, directed by Jeremy Herrin, is booking for 12 weeks only to 25 April 2015. In a Headlong and Royal Court Theatre co-production, The Nether is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman in association with Tulchin Bartner Productions, Lee Dean & Charles Diamond, 1001 Nights, JFL Theatricals/GHF Productions, Scott & Brian Zeilinger/James Lefkowitz. Tuesday 17 February: Jennifer Haley & Jeremy Herrin - In Conversation How do you write a play about the ethics of online existence? How do you stage a virtual world? Playwright Jennifer Haley and director Jeremy Herrin discuss The Nether and the process behind creating Headlong and the Royal Court’s production of the show, in a discussion chaired by Royal Court Literary Manager, Christopher Campbell. Tuesday 24 February: Gaming Are games a dangerous and anti-social addiction? Might gaming be able to save the world? How is gaming culture changing the kinds of stories that we tell and how we engage with them? Join playwright and gamer Lucy Prebble (ENRON, The Effect) and Iain Simons (Director of the GameCity Festival and co-founder of the National Videogame Archive) to explore how gaming has developed from Pong to Destiny and to discuss where gaming might take us in the future. Chaired by Royal Court Literary Manager, Christopher Campbell. Tuesday 3 March: Theatre and Technology How do we create a theatre for the digital age? Is technology fundamentally changing the ways in which we engage with and make performance? Matt Adams (Artistic Director, Blast Theory) and David Sabel (Head of Broadcast and Digital at the National Theatre) discuss how digital technology is revolutionising performance, chaired by Headlong’s Artistic Associate, Sarah Grochala. Tuesday 10 March: Online Policing and The Dark Web How do you police the entire internet? And how much of the web do we know about? Join Susie Hargreaves (Chief Executive of the Internet Watch Foundation) and Jamie Bartlett (Author of The Dark Net) to discuss how our relationship with the web is constantly changing. Chaired by Headlong’s Artistic Associate, Sarah Grochala. Tuesday 17 March: Living Online Is the web changing us? How does spending time online affect our brains? Can you spend too much time online? Journalist, Liat Clarke (Associate Editor of Wired Magazine) and Spencer Kelly (Presenter of BBC News’s Click) discuss the implications. Tuesday 24 March: The Future of Theatre Design with panel led by Es Devlin How is technology changing the way that we stage and design a production? What new possibilities might digital technology open up for theatre designers in the future? From the Deus Ex Machina of Ancient Greek Theatre to the invention of the electric lantern in the late nineteenth century, technology has had a huge impact on the ways in which we stage a performance. Olivier Award Winning Set Designer Es Devlin (Chimerica, American Psycho, The Nether) and Luke Halls (I Can’t Sing!, Olympic and Paralympic Closing Ceremonies, Master and Margarita) lead a panel of experts to discuss how digital technology is revolutionising the world of theatre design. The West End cast of The Nether comprises David Calder (Doyle), Amanda Hale (Morris), Ivanno Jeremiah (Woodnut) and Stanley Townsend (Sims) who are joined by Zoe Brough and Isabella Pappas who will alternate the role of Iris as they did at the Royal Court. Set designs are by Es Devlin, with costume designs by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Paul Pyant, compositions by Nick Powell, sound by Ian Dickinson and video design by Luke Halls. Jennifer Haley’s other writing includes Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville at the 2008 Humana Festival, Breadcrumbs for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Sustainable Living written in the 2011-2012 CTG Writers’ Workshop and featured at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her play Froggy is in development with The Banff Centre and American Conservatory Theater. Haley’s plays have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73 and the MacDowell Colony. She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles where she founded a writing collective called the Playwrights Union. The Nether was the first play Jeremy Herrin directed for Headlong as Artistic Director. Previously he was Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 2009 until 2012 where his credits included No Quarter, Hero, Haunted Child, The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz, The Priory, Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face. Herrin directed the world premieres of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the Royal Shakespeare Company – the productions transferred to the West End in May 2014 and will open on Broadway in March. He was the recipient of the 2014 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for the productions. Herrin’s other recent credits include Another Country, Uncle Vanya and South Downs for Chichester Festival Theatre all of which transferred to the West End, This House for the National Theatre, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre and The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s Globe. Herrin’s production of David Hare’s The Absence of War will open at Sheffield Theatres next month prior to a UK tour. The Nether is the latest in a number of collaborations between Sonia Friedman Productions and the Royal Court Theatre (Rock ‘n’ Roll, Clybourne Park, Jerusalem in the West End and The River on Broadway) and Headlong (1984 and Chimerica). Development of The Nether was supported by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference 2011, Preston Whiteway, Executive Director; Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director. Up Up

Back to Productions BOEING-BOEING This production began performances on 3rd February and closed on 28th April 2007. By many an airmile the funniest show on the London stage...Impossible to stop laughing. Daily Telegraph Bernard, a successful architect living in Paris, thought he could easily cope with his three air hostess fiancees. It was all a question of timetables and a reliable, long-suffering housekeeper who reluctantly has the role of romantic air-traffic controller. When old school chum Robert arrives, Bernard relishes the chance to show his wide-eyed friend his first-class operation at work. Unfortunately, schedules change, flights are delayed and a new turbo-charged Boeing aircraft is introduced: chaos ensues in this hysterical whirl of mayhem and matchmaking. A dream cast...Takes theatre into the stratosphere. The Guardian Translated by Beverley Cross from Mark Camoletti 's original, Matthew Warchus ' production is designed by Rob Howell , with lighting by Hugh Vanstone , original music by Claire van Kampen and sound by Simon Baker . The curtain call was devised by Bruno Tonioli . Sonia Friedman Productions , Act Productions , Matthew Byam Shaw and Robert G Bartner present “BOEING-BOEING ”. Absolutely terrific...Matthew Warchus's stylish revival is something approaching sublime thanks to a cast on tip-top form. Time Out CAST TAMZIN OUTHWAITE – Gloria ROGER ALLAM – Bernard FRANCES DE LA TOUR – Bertha MARK RYLANCE – Robert DAISY BEAUMONT – Gabriella MICHELLE GOMEZ – Gretchen CREATIVES MATTHEW WARCHUS – Director ROB HOWELL – Designer HUGH VANSTONE – Lighting Designer CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN – Original Music SIMON BAKER – Sound Designer BRUNO RONIOLI – Curtain Call

Back to News & Press King Charles III opens at Broadway's Music Box Theatre to great critical acclaim Monday, 2 November 2015 Variety says “Pigott-Smith is phenomenal...portraying a sense of human goodness and character nobility that can either elevate a monarch or damn him to oblivion. ” Peter Marks at The Washington Post comments that “Bartlett scores one remarkable dramatic coup after another. ” In The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney says, “Bartlett offers a fiendishly clever and yet serious questioning of the role of royalty in the 21st century. ” Mark Kennedy, Associated Press, calls King Charles III “...ingenuous, intelligent and intriguing. Forget the king: Long live the playwright! ” Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III, directed by Rupert Goold, enjoyed huge success in London last year with critically acclaimed sell-out runs at the Almeida Theatre and in the West End. It is currently on a UK-wide tour which today announces seven further dates in 2016 before transferring to Sydney. King Charles III was first produced by the Almeida Theatre and subsequently co-produced at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Stuart Thompson Productions in association with Lee Dean & Charles Diamond and Tulchin Bartner Productions. Directed by the Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold, King Charles III is designed by Tom Scutt, with music composed by Jocelyn Pook, lighting by Jon Clark and sound by Paul Arditti. Mike Bartlett's play explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. Tim Pigott-Smith leads the cast on Broadway, reprising his celebrated role as King Charles III, with Anthony Calf as Mr. Stevens, Oliver Chris as William, Richard Goulding as Harry, Nyasha Hatendi as Spencer and other roles, Adam James as Mr. Evans, Margot Leicester as Camilla, Miles Richardson as James Reiss, Tom Robertson as Cootsey and other roles, Sally Scott as Sarah and other roles, Tafline Steen as Jess and Lydia Wilson as Kate. The Broadway production of King Charles III is produced by Stuart Thompson Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre and will run until 31st January 2016. Up Up

Back to News & Press General on sale begins - The River Monday, 16 June 2014 General on-sale will begin on Monday, June 16 at 12:01 AM for THE RIVER, a new play by Jez Butterworth, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Donnelly and Cush Jumbo, and directed by Ian Rickson. The production is currently on sale to American Express cardholders only. Presented by Sonia Friedman Productions, the Royal Court Theatre production of THE RIVER will open on Sunday, November 16 on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre (West 50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). Previews begin Friday, October 31. The production will play a strictly limited 13-week engagement through Sunday, January 25, 2015. THE RIVER was first developed by Sonia Friedman Productions and was subsequently produced by the Royal Court Theatre. It was presented from October 18-November 17, 2012 in the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by Mr. Rickson, also featuring Ms. Donnelly, who makes her Broadway debut alongside Ms. Jumbo. Hugh Jackman, Laura Donnelly and Cush Jumbo are appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association. The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance of this production. A limited number of $35 day-of seats will be available for every performance of THE RIVER. When performances are sold out, $30 standing room tickets will also be available. Further details will be announced shortly. The production marks the sixth collaboration between Mr. Butterworth and Mr. Rickson. Mr. Rickson has previously directed the world premiere productions of Mr. Butterworth’s Mojo, The Night Heron, The Winterling, Parlour Song and the multi-award-winning London and Broadway production of Jerusalem. A remote fishing cabin, a man and a woman, and a moonless night. Jez Butterworth’s THE RIVER asks when we find each other, are we trying to recapture someone we once lost? The writer director team who brought you Jerusalem returns with a bewitching new story. Circle in the Square’s unique configuration and intimacy has made it a favorite of many stars who have graced its stage over the decades in both classics and new plays, including Colleen Dewhurst, Lillian Gish, George C. Scott, Julie Christie, Al Pacino, James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, Kevin Kline, Joanne Woodward, Rex Harrison, John Malkovich, Nathan Lane, Philip Seymour Hoffman and many others. The 2009 critically acclaimed and Tony Award®-winning revival of The Norman Conquests, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, also played at the theatre. THE RIVER is designed by Ultz, with lighting by Charles Balfour, sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph, music by Stephen Warbeck, and casting by Jim Carnahan. Tickets for THE RIVER are currently available to AmEx cardholders and will be available to the general public on June 16 at Telecharge.com or by calling 800-447-7400. Up Up

Back to News & Press Cinemalive and Digital Theatre present Ghosts Thursday, 29 May 2014 This acclaimed show, starring Lesley Manville, 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. Ghosts is currently nominated for five Olivier Awards; Best Actress, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Lighting Design, Best Director and Best Revival. Reinforcing the calibre of the entire WEST END THEATRE SERIES, previous productions in the series Merrily We Roll Along and Private Lives have both been recognised with a combined eleven Olivier Award nominations. At the 2013 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Richard Eyre was named Best Director for Ghosts. Lesley Manville won the 2013 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as Helene Alving. The universally praised cast of Ghosts also includes Adam Kotz, Jack Lowden, Brian McCardie and Charlene McKenna. Lowden and McKenna were recently nominated for the Ian Charleston Award for their performances in Ghosts. The award recognises outstanding performances by actors under 30 in classic roles. Lowden is now also nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The 2014 Olivier Awards will be presented this Sunday (14 April) at the Royal Opera House. The WEST END THEATRE SERIES is captured live in High Definition by Digital Theatre and distributed by CinemaLive. 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. Multi award-winning theatre, film and television actor Lesley Manville 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 currently running at the Aldwych Theatre, Quartermaine’s Terms at the Wyndham’s Theatre and The Pajama Game for Chichester Festival Theatre which transfers to the Shaftesbury Theatre in May. 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 and the BAFTA award-winning Tumbledown. Eyre recently 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. Screenings of Richard Eyre’s five-star production of Ibsen’s Ghosts is in UK cinemas for one night only, Thursday 26th June 2014. Tickets are on sale now. For more information, ticketing and participating cinemas in the UK and Ireland please visit www.westendtheatreseries.com (from 11th April, 9am) 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 Productions ALL ABOUT EVE This production began performances on 2nd Feb and closed on 11th May 2019. ★★★★ Lily James is excellent and Gillian Anderson is incredible. Absolutely one of those "I was there" moments. Time Out ★★★★ This is event theatre done with tremendous panache Daily Mail Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions produced the world premiere of Ivo van Hove’s highly anticipated stage production of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve. The much-acclaimed film, based on Mary Orr’s original play “The Wisdom of Eve”, remains the only film to receive four female acting nominations. The Emmy Award-winning Gillian Anderson (X-Files, The Fall, A Streetcar Named Desire ) returned to the stage alongside Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Downton Abbey, Romeo and Juliet ). ★★★★ An acting masterclass from Gillian Anderson Financial Times CAST GILLIAN ANDERSON – Margo LILY JAMES – Eve MONICA DOLAN – Karen JULIAN OVENDEN – Bill SHEILA REID – Birdie RHASHAN STONE – Lloyd CREATIVES Adapted for the stage by Ivo van Hove IVO VAN HOVE – Director JOSEPH L MANKIEWICZ – Writer JAN VERSWEYVELD – Set and Lighting Designer AN D'HUYS – Costume Designer PJ HARVEY – Music TOM GIBBONS – Sound Designer JULIA HORAN CDG – Casting

Back to News & Press The Jungle wins South Bank Sky Arts Award Sunday, 1 July 2018 A National Theatre and Young Vic co-production with Good Chance Theatre , The Jungle is directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin . It is currently in previews at the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions , Tom Kirdahy and Hunter Arnold , following a sell-out run at the Young Vic in December 2017. Melvyn Bragg presented the annual Awards at The Savoy Hotel in London, commending the greatest contributors to all aspects of the arts over the past 12 months. The South Bank Sky Arts Awards remains the only awards ceremony in the world to represent the entire spectrum of the arts, with categories for TV Drama, Classical Music, Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Film, Visual Art, Pop, Literature and Opera. In order to transfer the production to the West End, the team behind The Jungle have completely reconfigured the Playhouse Theatre , where the traditional proscenium arch venue has undergone an unprecedented transformation to house Miriam Buether ’s critically-acclaimed set design as seen at the Young Vic. Audiences are invited to sit at the benches and tables of the Afghan café in the Calais camp. The Playhouse Theatre also offers the new experience of watching from the Dress Circle, which has been renamed “Cliffs of Dover”, with views over the dramatically transformed performance space below, enhanced by accompanying video screens, relaying close-up ‘live news broadcast’ style footage of some of the action. The in-the-round transformation reduces the capacity of the theatre to under 450 seats. A proportion of tickets are being offered to refugees and targeted groups in order to maximise diversity and accessibility. Bucket collections and donation stations are available at every single performance of the show to help fundraise for official charity partners, Help Refugees. This is the place where people suffered and dreamed. Meet the hopeful, resilient residents of the Jungle – just across the Channel, right on our doorstep. The Jungle tells stories of loss, fear, community and hope, of the Calais camp’s creation - and of its eventual destruction. Join the residents over freshly baked naan and sweet milky chai at the Afghan Café, and experience the intense, moving and uplifting encounters between refugees from many different countries and the volunteers who arrived from the UK. Official charity partner, Help Refugees , which was established alongside Good Chance Theatre in the Calais Jungle in 2015 and is now the leading UK NGO in a new movement of international humanitarian aid, is supported by the production. The company is made up of actors from around the world; cast members are from Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan, Eritrea, England, Zimbabwe, Syria, Armenia, Congo, Wales, Scotland,The Gambia, Morocco, Lebanon and Germany. Up Up

Back to News & Press Tom Stoppard's Arcadia to play on Broadway Tuesday, 4 January 2011 ARCADIA arrives on Broadway from the West End where this production became an instant sold out hit in 2009 and was deemed “Stoppard’s most brilliant play” (The Observer), “one of the most exquisite plays of the 20th century” (The Independent), and “sexy, sophisticated, and killingly funny.” (The Evening Standard). The Broadway cast will include Margaret Colin, Billy Crudup, Raúl Esparza, Glenn Fleshler, Grace Gummer, Edward James Hyland, Byron Jennings, Bel Powley, Tom Riley, Noah Robbins, David Turner and Lia Williams. ARCADIA will begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) on Friday, February 25, 2011 with an opening night set for Thursday, March 17, 2011. Tickets for this limited engagement are on sale through Sunday, June 19, 2011. Tickets are on sale now online at Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200. In a statement, playwright Tom Stoppard said, “Since its first production in 1993, ARCADIA has become the play of mine which has been done the most in the U.S., so I’m really delighted that it’s coming back to New York. David Leveaux and I have had very good experiences on Broadway with Jumpers and The Real Thing, so I’m especially pleased that ARCADIA is returning under his direction.” Billy Crudup, who received a 2007 Tony Award for his performance in Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, made his Broadway debut in the 1995 production of ARCADIA, in the role of ‘Septimus Hodge.’ In this upcoming production, he will play ‘Bernard Nightingale.’ Crudup also received Tony nominations for his work in The Pillowman (2005), and The Elephant Man (2002). Raúl Esparza (Valentine Coverly) has received four Tony Award nominations for starring roles on Broadway in Speed the Plow (2009), The Homecoming (2008), Company (2007) and Taboo (2004). Lia Williams (Hannah Jarvis) made her Broadway debut in David Hare’s Skylight for which she received a 1997 Tony Award nomination (and an Olivier Award nomination in London). Bel Powley, Tom Riley, and Lia Williams are appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance of this production. David Leveaux’s previous collaborations with Tom Stoppard include the Tony Award-winning revival of The Real Thing (which also played at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway) and the Tony-nominated revival of Jumpers. For both productions, he received Tony Award nominations for his direction. He also received Tony nominations for his direction of Nine, Anna Christie, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. ARCADIA is produced on Broadway by Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berlind, Stephanie P. McClelland, Scott M. Delman, Robert G. Bartner, Olympus Theatricals and Doug Smith. ARCADIA is set in April 1809 in a stately home in Derbyshire. Thomasina, a gifted pupil, proposes a startling theory, beyond her comprehension. All around her, the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard (Lia Williams and Billy Crudup) are piecing together puzzling clues, curiously recalling those events of 1809, in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth. The creative team for ARCADIA will be announced at a later date. ARCADIA performance schedule: Monday through Saturday at 8pm, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2pm through March 20, 2011. Beginning the week of March 21, performances are Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday at 2pm & 8pm, Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 8 pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. ARCADIA premiered in London in 1993 and was instantly proclaimed a modern masterpiece. Writing about the play for the 1995 Broadway premiere Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, “There's no doubt about it. ARCADIA is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.” The many awards ARCADIA has received include the Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. When ARCADIA opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End last year, London critics hailed Stoppard’s play and Leveaux’ direction. Here’s a sampling of what critics said: “David Leveaux’s luscious revival of the Tom Stoppard play ARCADIA is an instant classic. Playgoers should be kept spinning for some months to come.” -- Matt Wolf, The New York Times Online “Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA is that rare thing: entertainment that thrills. A feast of ideas that is sexy, sophisticated, and killingly funny. Leveaux’s assured revival confirms this is Stoppard’s finest play.” -- Henry Hitchings, The Evening Standard “Tom Stoppard’s dazzling masterpiece, ARCADIA , is a glimpse of theatrical heaven. A poignant play with humor, wit and elegance that is much more than a comedy. It is a literary detective story, a play that fills you with enthusiasm. David Leveaux directs a sharp, lucid production that is about transience and loss, as well as love and laughter.” -- Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph “David Leveaux's delicious production of Stoppard’s most brilliant play delivers clarity, and considerable thoughtfulness, amid the zinging repartee and sexual farce. -- Emma John, The Observer “ARCADIA is one of Stoppard’s undisputed masterpieces. Leveaux’s poignant and touching revival gives pure uncomplicated pleasure on so many complicated matters.” -- Michael Coveney, The Independent “ARCADIA gets richer with each viewing. You can’t ask for more in a play. Leveaux's excellent revival reminds us there is an abundance of cleverness, wit, poetry and passion in this moving and intriguing play.” -- Michael Billington, The Guardian Up Up

Back to Productions RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S OKLAHOMA! This production first opened on 26th April 2022 and closed on 25th June 2022. ★★★★★ Punchy, playful & sexy. An absolute knockout! Daily Telegraph Oklahoma! tells a story of a community banding together against an outsider, and the frontier life that shaped America. Eightyyears after Rodgers and Hammerstein reinvented the American musical, this visionary production is funny and sexy, provocative and probing, without changing a word of the text. A stunning reinvention. The best revival yet! Evening Standard This is Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before, re-orchestrated and reimagined for the 21st century. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, Daniel Fish ’s bold interpretation transfers to the Young Vic, direct from an acclaimed run on Broadway and a U.S. tour. The Bard SummerScape production of Rodgers & Hammerstein ’s Oklahoma! in association with Eva Price , Sonia Friedman Productions and Michael Harrison . So revitalised it might've been written yesterday The Guardian CAST ANOUSHKA LUCAS – Laurey Williams ARTHUR DARVILL – Curly McLain PATRICK VAILL – Jud Fry LIZA SADOVY – Aunt Eller MARISHA WALLACE – Ado Annie JAMES PATRICK DAVIS – Will Parker STAVROS DEMETRAKI – Ali Hakim RAPHAEL BUSHAY – Mike GREG HICKS – Andrew Carnes REBEKAH HINDS – Gertie Cummings ASHLEY SAMUELS – Cord Elam MARIE MENCE – Lead Dancer CREATIVES DANIEL FISH & JORDAN FEIN – Directors DANIEL KLUGER & NATHAN KOCI – Orchestrations and Arrangements JOHN HEGINBOTHAM – Choreography LAURA JELLINEK AND GRACE LAUBACHER – Set Designer TERESE WADDEN – Costume Designer SCOTT ZIELINSKI – Lighting Designer DREW LEVY – Sound Designer JOSHUA THORSON – Video/Projection Designer

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 Box Office Opens for King Charles III On Broadway Friday, 4 September 2015 King Charles III, the highly anticipated play about Britain’s future king, will begin previews October 10, 2015, with opening night set for Sunday, November 1, 2015. The full cast and creative team for King Charles III is now complete. Joining Tim Pigott-Smith, reprising his much-raved about role as King Charles III, will be Anthony Calf as Mr. Stevens, Oliver Chris as William, Richard Goulding as Harry, Nyasha Hatendi as Spencer and other roles, Adam James as Mr. Evans, Margot Leicester as Camilla, Miles Richardson as James Reiss, Tom Robertson as Cootsey and other roles, Sally Scott as Sarah and other roles, Tafline Steen as Jess and Lydia Wilson as Kate. Written by Mike Bartlett and directed by Rupert Goold, King Charles III features sets and costumes by Tom Scutt, music compositions by Jocelyn Pook, lighting design by Jon Clark and sound design by Paul Arditti. The Queen is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, Prince Charles ascends the throne with Camilla by his side. As William, Kate and Harry look on, Charles prepares for the future of power that lies before him…but how to rule? Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play, King Charles III is the “bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining” (The Independent) drama of political intrigue by Mike Bartlett that comes to Broadway following a sensational West End run. Directed by Rupert Goold and starring the "magnificent" (The Observer) Tim Pigott-Smith in the title role, King Charles III has been deemed “the most insightful and engrossing new history play in decades” by Ben Brantley of The New York Times. This “bold and brilliant” (The Times of London) production explores the people underneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of Britain's democracy and the conscience of its most famous family. Tickets for King Charles III will be available for purchase in person at the Music Box Theatre box office (open Monday – Saturday, 10 am – 8 pm; Beginning November 8: Sunday, 12 – 6 pm), and are currently on sale online at www.telecharge.com , or by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200. King Charles III had its critically acclaimed world premiere at the Almeida Theatre on April 10, 2014. It premiered in the West End on September 11, 2014. For more information, including full performance schedule, visit www.KingCharlesIIIBroadway.com . ★★★★★ “Theatre doesn’t get much better than this” (The Times) ★★★★★ “Attendance is compulsory” (The Telegraph) ★★★★★ “Tim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career” (Daily Express) ★★★★★ “Long may it reign. Hilarious, Dizzyingly audacious state-of-the-nation political thriller.” (Time Out London) ★★★★★ “A brilliant, provocative piece of drama” (The Financial Times) ★★★★★ “Mike Bartlett has found a grand style to match his subjects...a crowning achievement for all concerned” (Mail on Sunday) www.KingCharlesIIIBroadway.com Up Up