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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back to Productions THE HUMAN VOICE This production opened on 17th March 2022 and ran for a strictly limited 31 performances, closing 9th April 2022. Ruth Wilson shines. Financial Times We’ve never been more connected. We’ve never been more alone. Two-time Olivier Award-winner Ruth Wilson stars in The Human Voice – the searing story of a woman's heartbreak over the course of a final phone call with her former lover. A slick production by Ivo van Hove. iNews Reunited with groundbreaking director Ivo van Hove for the first time since their acclaimed Hedda Gabler, Ruth Wilson returns to the West End for 31 performances in this explosive reimagining of one of theatre’s greatest roles. Jean Cocteau ’s stunning monologue is more illuminating about love and loneliness than ever. Supported by Arts Council England Produced with the kind permission of the Chairman of the Comite Jean Cocteau This splendidly truthful actress handles the script’s emotional hairpin turns with poise and nuance. Evening Standard CAST RUTH WILSON CREATIVES Adaptated by IVO VAN HOVE JEAN COCTEAU – Writer JAN VERSWEYVELD – Designer

Back to News & Press Full casting announced for the Olivier Award nominated West End Transfer of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour Sunday, 2 April 2017 Olivier Award-nominated for Best New Comedy and Best Supporting Actress for the entire company, Vicky Featherstone ’s smash-hit production of Lee Hall ’s adaptation of Alan Warner ’s The Sopranos sees Caroline Deyga (Chell), Karen Fishwick (Kay), Kirsty MacLaren (Manda), Frances Mayli McCann (Kylah) and Dawn Sievewright (Fionnula) reprise their roles, with Isis Hainsworth joining the company as Orla. Joining the company on stage are Amy Shackcloth (Musical Director/Keyboard), Lilly Howard (Assistant Musical Director/Keyboard), Emily Linden (Guitar) and Becky Brass (Percussion). The production opens on 15 May, with previews from 9 May. With tickets from just £10 and all previews priced at £30 and under, over 30,000 tickets will be priced at £30 and under throughout the run. ★★★★ ‘Big hearted and enjoyably coarse, but with moments of real poignancy, this is a fearless portrait of adolescence, fuelled by songs and Sambuca.’ Evening Standard From the creator of Billy Elliot (Lee Hall ) comes the uplifting and moving story of six Catholic school girls from Oban, let loose in Edinburgh for the day. Funny, raucous and heart-breaking, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is adapted from Alan Warner ’s brilliant novel about six young friends on the cusp of change. Featuring, amongst others, the songs of ELO, Our Ladies is a glorious anthem to friendship, youth and growing up disgracefully. Prepare thyself for 24 hours of holy chaos. Contains singing, hilarity, sambuca and strong language. ★★★★ ‘A high spirited, hilarious, exhilarating and poignant portrait of essentially good, naïve girls having a reckless stab at being bad, and being brave, eager to experience everything life can throw at them and discovering important stuff about themselves and their friendships in the process.’ Mail on Sunday Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award, a Herald Angel Award, a Little Devil Herald Award and a Stage Ensemble Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, the production also received a Tonic Award at the inaugural awards just last week. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and Live Theatre, and presented in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott M. Delman, Gail Berman Theatricals and Tulchin Bartner Productions in association with William Court Cohen, Ashley M. DeSimone & Jeremiah J. Harris. Up Up

Back to Productions FUNNY GIRL This production began performances on 7th April and closed on 8th October 2016. If Sheridan Smith was a star before the lights went up on Funny Girl last night, she was twice the star by the time she took the thunderous curtain-call. Daily Telegraph This musical classic tells the fascinating bitter-sweet story of Fanny Brice ( Smith ), whose vocal talents and comedic ability see her rise from Brooklyn music hall singer to Broadway star and her tempestuous relationship with gambler Nicky Arnstein. Featuring some of the most iconic songs in film and theatre history, including “People” and “Don’t Rain On My Parade”. ★★★★ Smith is a constant joy to watch The Guardian Funny Girl , starring multi-award-winning stage and screen star Sheridan Smith , transferred to the Savoy Theatre following its sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory. This bold new production, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill , a book by Isobel Lennart from an original story by Miss Lennart , with revisions by Harvey Fierstein , is directed by Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Itch & Spring Awakening on Broadway) and promises to be the must-see musical of 2016. ★★★★ Only a fool would rain on Sheridan Smith’s parade Time Out CAST SHERIDAN SMITH – Fanny Brice VALDA AVIKS – Mrs Meeker NATASHA J BARNES – Emma/Mrs Nadler/Cover Fanny Brice DARIUS CAMPBELL – Nick Arnstein MARILYN CUTTS – Mrs Brice MAURICE LANE – Mr Keeney BRUCE MONTAGUE – Florenz Ziegfeld JOEL MONTAGUE – Eddie Ryan GAY SOPER – Mrs Strakosh PHILIP BERTIOLO – Cornet Man/Tenor Soloist/Ensemble EMMA CAFFREY – Bubbles/Ensemble SANCHIA AMBER CLARKE – Swing LUCINDA COLLINS – Swing JOELLE DYSON – Ensemble REBECCA FENNELLY – Polly/Ensemble LUKE FETHERSTON – John/Cornet Man/Ensemble MATTHEW GOODGAME – Director/Renaldi/Paul/Ensemble LEAH HARRIS – Ensemble KELLY HOMEWOOD – Vera/Ensemble SAMMY KELLY – Mimsey/Ensemble SAM MURPHY – Swing TOM MURPHY – Swing CLARE RICHARD – Swing OLIVER TESTER – Swing CREATIVES JULE STYNE – Music BOB MERRILL – Lyrics ISOBEL LENNART – Book HARVEY FIERSTEIN – Revised Book MICHAEL MAYER – Director LYNNE PAGE – Choreography MICHAEL PAVELKA – Set Designer MATTHEW WRIGHT – Costume Designer MARK HENDERSON – Lighting Designer RICHARD BROOKER – Sound Designer ALAN WILLIAMS – Musical Supervisor/Musical Arrangements CHRIS WALKER – Orchestrations THEO JAMIESON – Musical Director CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES – Wigs, Hair and Make-Up PIPPA AILION CDG/JIM ARNOLD CGD – Additional Casting NICK TRUMBLE – Dialect Coach RICHARD FITCH – Associate Director REBECCA HOWELL – Associate Choreographer ANDY BARNWELL – Orchestral Manager

Back to News & Press Full cast announced for major revival of Mrs. Warren's Profession, starring Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter Monday, 24 March 2025 Sonia Friedman Productions today announces full principal casting for the upcoming major revival of George Bernard Shaw ’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession , directed by Dominic Cooke . Joining the previously announced Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter are Kevin Doyle , Robert Glenister , Reuben Joseph and Sid Sagar . Newly edited for this production by Dominic Cooke, Mrs. Warren’s Profession opens at the Garrick Theatre on 22 May, with previews from 10 May. The strictly limited run will end on 16 August. “I am my mother’s daughter. I am like you. But my work is not your work, and my way is not your way.” Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Estranged from her wealthy mother, she delights in a glass of whisky, a good detective story, and is determined to carve herself a sparkling legal career in an age ruled by men. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune and paid for her daughter’s expensive education - but at what cost? Four-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ) joins forces with her daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton, Dear Octopus ) for the very first time, reuniting with the extraordinary director Dominic Cooke (Hello, Dolly!, Good ) to bring George Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic crashing into the 21st Century. George Bernard Shaw’s play, written in 1893, was banned by the Lord Chamberlain for 30 years due to its candid discussion of prostitution and wasn’t performed in London until 1925. Up Up