Back to Productions THE DUMB WAITER This production began performances on 2nd February with press night on 8th February and ended its strictly-limited seven week run on 24th March 2007. Groundbreaking... Outstanding performances. Daily Telegraph In an airless basement room, two killers await confirmation of the identity of their next 'hit.' They're a team from way back. Today something has disturbed their normally efficient routine. Unseen forces bear down on them in their precarious and darkly funny world. Meanwhile, increasingly bizarre orders keep arriving via a serving hatch? It's Tarantino meets Tony Hancock in a comedy of menace played for truth. The Times To coincide with the play's 50th anniversary, Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs will star in a major West End revival of Harold Pinter 's classic comedy of menace, The Dumb Waiter . The Dumb Waiter was first produced at Hampstead Theatre Club in 1960, directed by James Roose Evans with Nicholas Selby as Ben and George Tovey as Gus. More recently, in 2004, Douglas Hodge directed Toby Jones and Jason Watkins in the Oxford Playhouse Production. In 1987 Robert Altman directed John Travolta and Tom Conti in the film version of Pinter 's one act play. Menace and absurdity, delivered with panache Financial Times CAST LEE EVANS – Gus JASON ISAACS – Ben CREATIVES HAROLD PINTER – Playwright HARRY BURTON – Director PETER MCKINTOSH – Designer

Back to Productions BENT This production began performances on 5th October 2006 and closed on 13th January 2007. Spellbinding? An enthralling revival. The Observer BENT follows a personal journey from the cabarets and clubs of a hedonistic city to the inhuman excesses of a totalitarian regime, as a gay man discovers the true meaning of love and self-acceptance against almost impossible odds. A transcendent love story, Bent has touched a universal nerve in the more than fifty countries that it has been seen in and is now a standard on UK drama, history and literature syllabuses. Bent is a technically accomplished, artistically ambitious evening. It makes you wince. Daily Mail This is the first major production of BENT , Martin Sherman 's landmark play, in over seventeen years. This new production, starring Alan Cumming and directed by Daniel Kramer also features a new song, especially written for the show, by Chris Lowe of The Pet Shop Boys and Martin Sherman . Raw, brutal and totally brilliant...Alan Cumming in a breathtaking and doubtless soon-to-be award winning performance. Daily Express CAST ALAN CUMMING CREATIVES MARTIN SHERMAN – Playwright DANIEL KRAMER – Director

Back to News & Press The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson touring & coming to the West End in 2022 Monday, 4 April 2022 ★★★★★ The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, WhatsOnStage ★★★★ The Times, Evening Standard, The Observer, Independent, The Stage, Metro Robert Icke ’s (Animal Farm, The Wild Duck, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, 1984 ) sold- out, five-star Almeida Theatre production, The Doctor , will tour to Brighton (5-10 September), Bath (13-17 September) and Richmond (19-24 September) before transferring to the Duke of York’s Theatre from 29 September – 11 December 2022. Olivier Award winner, Juliet Stevenson , ‘ delivering one of the peak performances of the theatrical year’ (The Guardian), will reprise her role as Professor Ruth Wolff. Juliet won a Critics’ Circle Award and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance in this role. Juliet Stevenson said “I am beyond thrilled that The Doctor is travelling to Brighton, Bath and Richmond and then onto the West End. So much has happened in the last two years since we first played the show - I am so excited to share these new resonances and conversations with audiences, everywhere we go. Never has this debate been more needed”. The Doctor , by Robert Icke , very freely adapted from Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler , has been critically lauded since it opened at the Almeida in August 2019. The play headlined the Adelaide Festival in 2020, before it was due to transfer to the West End. This was delayed until 2022 due to the outbreak of Covid-19. This is the third West End transfer for Robert Icke and Juliet Stevenson, following the critical and commercial smash-hit productions of Mary Stuart and Hamlet . She most recently voiced one of the puppets in Robert Icke’s current production of Animal Farm . In a divisive time, in a divided nation, a society takes sides. The latest smash-hit by “Britain’s best director” (Telegraph) is a "provocative, wonderfully upsetting" (Independent) whirlwind of gender, race and questions about identity, "one of the peaks of the theatrical year" (Guardian) and a "devastating play for today" (Financial Times). The production has designs by Hildegard Bechtler , lighting by Natasha Chivers , sound and composition by Tom Gibbons and casting by Julia Horan . Further casting will be announced in due course. 3800 STALLS TICKETS - PRICED AT JUST £25 will be available across the run exclusively for NHS employees and blue light workers (which includes emergency services, those who work in the social care sector and the armed forces). These tickets are available via the official box office ATG Tickets (just select the ‘NHS/Blue Light’ option whilst booking, and present one ID per transaction when you arrive). The Doctor is produced by Ambassador Theatre Group Productions & Almeida Theatre, Gavin Kalin Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions & Wessex Grove . Up Up

Back to News & Press Kristin Scott Thomas, Rufus Sewell and Lia Williams star in Old Times by Harold Pinter Monday, 8 October 2012 Tickets go on sale today (9th October, 2012) for Harold Pinter’s enigmatic play Old Times.Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Rufus Sewell and Lia Williams, Old Times is directed by Ian Rickson, designed by Hildegard Bechtler, with lighting by Peter Mumford and sound by Paul Groothuis and is now booking for a strictly limited season until 6th April, 2013. Locked away in a secluded farmhouse, Kate, Deeley and Anna reminisce about their early days together in London but, with conflicting memories and underlying sexual tensions, the past suddenly feels vividly present. Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams will alternate the roles of Kate and Anna, with Rufus Sewell playing Deeley. A detailed performance schedule will shortly be available on the show’s website. Old Times will be the first of Pinter’s plays to be performed in the newly renamed Harold Pinter Theatre. Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of the late and much celebrated Nobel Prize-winning playwright, has said “With this production in this theatre, it’s a dream come true.”Old Times first played at London’s Aldwych Theatre on June 1st, 1971, starring Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin and Vivien Merchant and was directed by Peter Hall. Ian Rickson and Kristin Scott Thomas have previously worked together on the critically-acclaimed productions of Pinter’s Betrayal and Chekhov’s The Seagull. Prior to Betrayal Rickson had also directed Pinter’s The Hothouse at the National Theatre and in 2006 directed Harold Pinter himself in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, which was recorded for film by BBC4. Old Times marks the fifth Pinter play that Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP) has produced in the West End in recent years, succeeding Celebration, The Dumb Waiter, No Man’s Land and Betrayal. As with all SFP productions there will be a range of accessible seat prices, which will include over one hundred £10 seats for every performance, across all levels, many bookable in advance. Kristin Scott Thomas (Kate/Anna) was last on stage playing Emma in Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre (then the Comedy Theatre). She also starred as Arkadina in the celebrated production of The Seagull at the Royal Court Theatre, for which she won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, reprising the role on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre the following year. Her other theatre credits include Jonathan Kent’s production of As You Desire Me and Michael Blakemore’s production of Three Sisters, both at the Playhouse Theatre in London. Her extensive film credits include Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Bel Ami, The Horse Whisperer, The English Patient, I Loved You So Long, Leaving, Tell No One, Gosford Park and Four Weddings and a Funeral, for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress. She is currently filming Only God Forgives opposite Ryan Gosling and Invisible Woman opposite Ralph Fiennes, due for release next year. For television, Kristin’s credits include Body and Soul. Rufus Sewell’s (Deeley) performance as Jan in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll garnered him the Evening Standard, London Critics’ Circle and Olivier Awards for Best Actor when it played in the West End, followed by Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Actor when the play transferred to Broadway. He also received an Olivier Award nomination for his role in another Tom Stoppard play, Arcadia (National Theatre), and other notable theatre credits include Making it Better (Hampstead Theatre / West End), Luther (National Theatre), Rat in the Skull (Royal Court), Macbeth (Queen’s Theatre) and Brian Friel’s Translations (on Broadway). Rufus’s film work includes Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Illusionist, The Holiday, The Legend of Zorro, A Knight’s Tale, Dark City and Carrington; and he has won acclaim for leading roles for television including Zen, Pillars of the Earth, Eleventh Hour, John Adams, The Taming of the Shrew, Charles II, Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm. Rufus has four films set for release: All Things to All Men, The Occult, I’ll Follow You Down and the groundbreaking Hotel Noir; and he also stars in the upcoming BBC drama, Restless. Lia Williams(Anna/Kate) first performed at the Harold Pinter Theatre, then the Comedy Theatre, as Ruth in Pinter’s The Homecoming with Ian Holm. Other Pinter plays include; The Room, Celebration (Almeida / New York), The Lover/The Collection (Donmar Warehouse) and The Hothouse (National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson). Harold Pinter directed Lia in Oleanna (Royal Court / West End) with David Suchet. Other theatre work includes Hannah Jarvis in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia on Broadway, David Hare's Skylight with Michael Gambon on Broadway, the National Theatre and West End (Olivier & Tony Nominated for Best Actress), Alan Ayckbourn's The Revengers' Comedies (Critics Circle-winner and Olivier Nominated for Best Comedy performance), Absurd Person Singular (West End), As You Like It (RSC), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre), My Child (Royal Court), Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Gate Theatre, Dublin / Best Actress Award). TV includes; Coup, Doc Martin, May 33rd (BAFTA Nominated), The Russian Bride (FIPA Best Actress), Shot Through the Heart, Mr Wroe's Virgins and Seaforth. Film includes; Michael Winner's Dirty Weekend, The King is Alive and Firelight. Radio includes; TS Elliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land, Faith Healer and The Lady from the Sea. Film directorial credits include three short films; The Stronger (BAFTA nominated and winner Raindance), Feathers and Dog Alone. Theatre directorial credits include; The Match Box (Liverpool Playhouse / Tricycle, London). Lia is soon to direct a screenplay for the BBC and is developing a documentary about the First Nations Batchewana people in Ontario, Canada. Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He was married to Antonia Fraser, with whom he lived from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. He wrote twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, twenty-one screenplays including The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman and Sleuth, and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exiles, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own plays including his last, Celebration, paired with his first, The Room, at the Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000. In 2005 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Other awards include the Companion of Honour for services to Literature, the Legion D’Honneur, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Molière D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. He received honorary degrees from eighteen universities. Ian Rickson was Artistic Director at the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006, during which time he directed Krapp’s Last Tape, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Fallout, The Night Heron, Boy Gets Girl, Mouth to Mouth (also in the West End), Dublin Carol, The Weir (also West End and Broadway), The Lights, Pale Horse and Mojo (also at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre), Ashes & Sand, Some Voices and Killers. His last production for the Royal Court, The Seagull, transferred to Broadway. Other theatre includes Hamlet (Young Vic), Jerusalem (Royal Court, West End and Broadway), Betrayal (Comedy Theatre), The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), The Hothouse and The Day I Stood Still (NT), Parlour Song (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Roundabout Theatre, New York), The House of Yes (Gate) and Me & My Friend (Chichester Festival Theatre). His film credits include Fallout, Krapp’s Last Tape and The Clear Road Ahead. Up Up

Back to News & Press Bend It Like Beckham Casting Update Thursday, 3 December 2015 Jamie Muscato’s theatre credits include Sweeney Todd for Welsh National Opera, House of Mirrors and Hearts for the Arcola Theatre, Dogfight for Southwark Playhouse, The Light Princess for the National Theatre, Rock of Ages at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Blitz for the Theatre Royal Stratford East, Love Story at the Duchess Theatre, Les Miserables on tour internationally, Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith and Novello Theatres and Lift at the Trafalgar Studios. His film credits include Les Miserables, The Euphoria of Drowning and Wild Oats. On television his credits include Cilla and My Parents Are Aliens. Sohm Kapila, Buckso Dhillon-Woolley and Harveen Mann play Aunties, Irvine Iqbal and Karl Seth play Uncles, with Sejal Keshwala, Serina Mathew and Sharan Phull as Cousins. Rakesh Boury, Jorell Coiffic-Kamall, Tom Millen, Daniel Bolton play footballers, with Teetu played by Raj Bajaj. The Harriers are played by Michelle Bishop, Lisa Bridge, Chloe Chambers, Genesis Lynea, Kayleigh McKnight, Leanne Pinder, Kirstie Skivington and Danielle Young. Rekha Sawhney and Shahid Khan are the production’s Indian Heritage Singers. Bend It Like Beckham The Musical is a celebratory fusion of culture, music, emotions and fun, bursting with warmth, humour and heart. Jess needs extra time. She is facing the most important decision of her life: live up to family expectations of university, career and marriage, or follow in the footsteps of her hero David Beckham. When the talented teenager is spotted playing football in Southall, a world of unexpected opportunities opens up before her. But as her sister’s traditional Indian wedding approaches, can she keep her family happy and still follow her dreams? Bend It Like Beckham The Musical is directed by Gurinder Chadha, with original music by Howard Goodall and lyrics by Charles Hart, new book by Paul Mayeda Berges & Gurinder Chadha; choreography and musical staging by Aletta Collins; set design by Miriam Buether; costume design by Katrina Lindsay; lighting design by Neil Austin; sound design by Richard Brooker; musical direction by Nigel Lilley and orchestrations by Howard Goodall & Kuljit Bhamra. The cast CD was released in September 2015 by Sony Classical, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Recorded over several performances at the Phoenix Theatre to capture the excitement of a live performance, the original cast album which features seventeen tracks from the show including Girl Perfect, Heer, Bend It, People Like Us, UB2 and Glorious, made the number one slot in the Itunes soundtrack album chart. Bend It Like Beckham The Musical is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions, Deepak Nayar Productions, Bend It Films, Fischer & Vaswani Productions, Tanya Link Productions & Zeilinger Productions, Lost Marbles & Two Way Split, Delman Jacobson, DOIT Media & Entertainment (India) and Reliance Entertainment. Up Up

Back to Productions NICE FISH This production began performances on 15th November 2016 and closed on 11th February 2017. Wonderful performances. Expertly directed. Bewitching New York Times On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It’s the end of the fishing season and on the frostbitten, unforgiving landscape, two old friends are out on the ice and they are angling for something big, something down there that is pure need, something that, had it the wherewithal, would swallow them whole. Deliriously funny. Claire van Kampen’s cleverly staged production is a knockout Variety Direct from a sold-out season in New York, Academy and Bafta Award-winner Mark Rylance returns to the West End to perform in Nice Fish , a hit new comic play written by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins and directed by Claire Van Kampen . Mark Rylance , in a unique collaboration with critically acclaimed Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins , draws on his teenage years in the frozen winters and culture of the American Midwest. Nice Fish is an ice fishing expedition where the ordinary and extraordinary collide. The full New York cast will transfer to London for this limited season. Ron (Mark Rylance ) and Erik (Jim Lichtscheidl ) play the odd couple, whose ordinary lives are comically exposed in this sublimely playful, profound and very funny play. Kayli Carter , Bob Davis and Raye Birk join them on their journey across the pond to perform in Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre this winter. A chance to see a great actor like Mark Rylance cutting loose. A whimsical, ultimately resonant portrait of lost souls waiting to hook or be hooked Time Out New York CAST RAYE BIRK KAYLI CARTER BOB DAVIS JIM LICHTSCHEIDL MARK RYLANCE CREATIVES CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN – Director TODD ROSENTHAL – Set Designer ILONA SOMOGYI – Costume Designer JAPHY WEIDEMAN – Lighting Designer SCOTT W. EDWARDS – Sound Designer CLAIRE VAN KAMPEN – Original Music JIM CARNAHAN CSA – Casting

Back to News & Press Sonia Friedman named Broadway Briefing's 2018 Broadway Showperson of the Year Monday, 17 December 2018 Previous winners include Bette Middler and Lin Manuel Miranda. Noma Dumezweni , currently starring in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , said: ‘She doesn't write shows. She doesn't direct them. She doesn't design them. She makes them happen. (That's a proper super power, sheathed in a fabulously shaggy coat, with a touch of glitter thrown in, in lieu of a cape.) Sonia Friedman is a true teller of stories. Because she trusts and follows her gut, when the right stories call, she helps and makes them live. It's a feeling she has.’ Read the full piece here . Up Up

Back to Productions UNCLE VANYA FILM Following a theatrical cinema release, BBC Arts commissions Uncle Vanya on Film from Sonia Friedman Productions and Angelica Films for BBC 4. ★★★★★ A masterpiece of love, sadness and a very timely air of ennui... Quite a marvel, quite a must-see. The Telegraph This dramatic and darkly humorous adaptation - which sees a conflicted family forced to confront their despair, and each other, while living together on their isolated estate - has even greater resonance following recent world events. ★★★★★ An extraordinary, transfiguring leap from stage to screen… This is not, like the NTLive broadcasts, an attempt to transmit a theatrical event. It is a new thing. The film crackles with fresh intensity – and gains new shadows from the timing of its release… . It is often said that an elderly play is nevertheless a play for today. This one truly is. The Observer BBC Arts has commissioned a breathtaking film of Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson’ s stunning new adaptation of the Anton Chekhov masterpiece, Uncle Vanya from Sonia Friedman Productions and Angelica Films. A specially commissioned version of the original stage production, directed by Olivier Award-nominated Ian Rickson , produced during lockdown, and filmed without an audience, the two-hour film features a superlative cast including Toby Jones , Richard Armitage , Rosalind Eleazar , Aimee Lou Wood , Anna Calder-Marshall , Dearbhla Molloy , Peter Wight and Roger Allam , and is directed for screen by Ross MacGibbon . Uncle Vanya , produced by Sonia Friedman Productions , opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in January 2020 to five-star reviews, heralded by critics as ‘the perfect Chekhov’ (The Guardian ). Despite playing to sold-out audiences from January, and currently nominated for four Olivier Awards, Uncle Vanya ’s success was cut short in March 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19 and the abrupt closure of theatres around the world. As the first British theatre production closed by the pandemic to be filmed in situ, the production team adhered to strict protocols to ensure the safety of both cast and crew. This involved the cast being in isolation and on a COVID-19 testing schedule to allow them to perform together, and the crew have worked in protective masks and PPE while remaining socially distanced throughout the entire process. ★★★★★ It is excellent. A great work of art. It will touch your heart and soul. BBC News CAST AMY LOU WOOD – Sonya TOBY JONES – Vanya ROASALIND ELEAZAR – Yelena RICHARD ARMITAGE – Astrov ROGER ALLAM – Serebrayakov ANNA CALDER-MARSHALL – Nana DEARBHLA MOLLOY – Mariya PETER WIGHT – Telegrin CREATIVES ANTON CHEKHOV – Original Playwright CONOR MCPHERSON – Adaptation ROSS MACGIBBON & IAN RICSON – Directors

Back to News & Press The Inheritance wins 2 WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play and Best Supporting Actress Sunday, 3 March 2019 On 3rd March, the 19th annual WhatsOnStage Awards, the only major UK theatre awards which are judged and voted for by the general public, were held at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The Inheritance was awarded Best New Play, with Vanessa Redgrave also being voted Best Supporting Actress in a Play. Up Up

Back to News & Press Full Casting Announced for Travesties Monday, 11 December 2017 Travesties will star Tom Hollander as Henry Carr with Peter McDonald reprising his role as James Joyce from the Menier Chocolate Factory production, Seth Numrich as Tristan Tzara, Nicholas Woodeson as Lenin, Scarlett Strallen as Gwendolen, Sara Topham as Cecily, Opal Alladin as Nadya and Patrick Kerr as Bennett. Tony nominee Patrick Marber will return to direct after the sold-out productions at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory and the West End. Travesties will begin preview performances on Thursday, March 29, 2018 and opens officially on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, June 17, 2018 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). Travesties returns to Broadway in a "near-miraculous production" of "mind-bending splendor" (New York Times ). In 1917 Zurich, an artist – Tristan Tzara, a writer – James Joyce, and a revolutionary – Lenin, collide in a kaleidoscopic thrill-ride that's "wickedly playful, intensely entertaining, infectiously theatrical" (Time Out London ). Roundabout reunites with playwright Tom Stoppard (Indian Ink , The Real Thing ) and director Patrick Marber (Howard Katz , After Miss Julie ) for a dazzling revival from London's Menier Chocolate Factory (Sunday in the Park with George ). The creative team includes Tim Hatley (Set and Costume Design), Neil Austin (Lighting Design), Adam Cork (Sound Design and Original Music) and Polly Bennett (Movement). Roundabout is additionally pleased to welcome returning actors Sara Topham (The Importance of Being Earnest ), Patrick Kerr (The Ritz ) and Opal Alladin (Hedda Gabler ). TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets for Travesties are first made available to subscribers and donors. Whether you are interested in the best value or VIP experiences, Roundabout has a package option for you. Visit roundabouttheatre.org or call 212719-1300 for more info. Sign up for Roundabout’s email club at roundabouttheatre.org to be notified when tickets go on sale to the public. For groups of 10 or more please call 212-719-9393 x 365 or email groupsales@roundabouttheatre.org . PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Travesties will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 8:00PM, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2:00PM and Sunday matinees at 3:00PM. TRAVESTIES is made possible with Bank of America as a Proud Sponsor. Partial underwriting support for Travesties provided by Ravened Curry. Up Up

Back to News & Press Sunny Afternoon announces West End extension Monday, 4 January 2016 Tickets for new booking period are now on sale. Click here to book. With a book by Joe Penhall, music and lyrics and original story by Ray Davies, and directed by Edward Hall, Sunny Afternoon has established itself as a firm favourite with audiences and critics alike since it opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in October 2014. Fifty years ago The Kinks were sitting at Number One in the UK charts with their single ‘Sunny Afternoon ’. The band’s popularity has not faded since the 1960s, with crowds of all ages filling the Harold Pinter Theatre night after night. Featuring some of The Kinks’ best-loved songs, including You Really Got Me, Waterloo Sunset and Lola , Sunny Afternoon marks the 50th anniversary of the band’s rise to fame. Following a sold-out run at Hampstead Theatre, this world premiere production, with music and lyrics by Ray Davies, new book by Joe Penhall, original story by Ray Davies, direction by Edward Hall, design by Miriam Buether and choreography by Adam Cooper, opened at the Harold Pinter theatre on 28 October 2014. Lighting is by Rick Fisher, sound by Matt McKenzie and the Musical Supervisor and Musical Director is Elliott Ware. Up Up

Back to News & Press SFP in the news 2007 to 2008 Friday, 4 May 2007 A selection of press quotes from 2007 to 2008. THE STAGE Friedman's reputation has soared in the West End where she is frequently described as the most exciting producer in town HARPER'S BAZAAR Sonia Friedman has breathed new life into London's West End THE STAGE Phenomenal energy, drive and attention to detail THE TELEGRAPH One of London's most prolific producers EVENING STANDARD Sonia Friedman listed as one of London's 1000 Most Influential People 2007. Puts her faith in new plays and presents more of them than any other at a time when the straight play is a dying West End species. This attractive, powerful and ruthless sister of singer Maria Friedman makes cunning use of stars and, now working for herself, is to try her hand at musicals. VARIETY, DAVID BENEDICT One of the U.K.’s most prolific legit producers, Friedman is immensely shrewd at the tricky business of juggling personal taste and box office potential. Over the past 18 months, her Sonia Friedman Prods. has presented 14 shows in London and on Broadway, nabbing eight Olivier nominations and four Tony nominations. Her London hits of Tom Stoppard's “Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “Boeing-Boeing” are Broadway-bound for the 2007-08 season. A rare and defiant commercial supporter of new writing -- a risky economic prospect -- she has around two dozen projects in development, only a few of which are new musicals. “Plays remain paramount in the repertoire of this company,” she says. TIME OUT Friedman is the uncrowned queen of Theatre Land who is responsible for a string of hits in the West End and on Broadway - with commercial theatre in her hands there's hope for the West End yet... MARK SHENTON, THE STAGE AND SUNDAY EXPRESS She's a force of nature and of nurture, in terms of bringing projects to fruition... THE GUARDIAN PROFILE ON SONIA FRIEDMAN I don't think there will ever be a theatre project that will be big enough, this is a woman who needs an empire... GUARDIAN, LYN GARDNER (on Faith Healer) Its success marks the arrival of producer Sonia Friedman as a force on Broadway. Moving in on Broadway was a natural step for Friedman, who has become uncrowned queen of the West End over the past six years. GUARDIAN, MICHAEL BILLINGTON The most urgent need is for dynamic young producers to succeed the senior generation. Only two have made their mark in recent years: the admirable Sonia Friedman. THEATREGOER There is little Sonia Friedman can't pull off... NICHOLAS DE JONGH, EVENING STANDARD Miss Friedman is not the old style producer - she is shrewd, adventurous, and young! SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE - SIMON FANSHAWE INTERVIEW The guiding light of the process is Sonia Friedman, the prodigious producer who has just earned four Tony nominations for Brian Friel?s Faith Healer, on Broadway, as well as stunning reviews for a new London production of Michael Frayn's Donkeys' Years. Despite the accolades for these revivals, though, she has a kind of demented enthusiasm for new writing. TIME OUT As soon as she's got one of your plays in hand you know for certain it is going to happen... DAILY TELEGRAPH, CHARLES SPENCER Sonia Friedman has reached the very peak of her theatrical field. Read full article here . Up Up