Back to Productions BY THE BOG OF CATS This production began performances on 19th November 2004 and closed on 26th February 2005. In Hester Swane, Marina Carr has created a protagonist who echoes Medea, seemingly doomed to undergo similar trials as her ancient Greek forbear. By the Bog of Cats is a reworking of one of the most famous of the ancient Athenian tragedies, Medea by Euripides, which was first performed as far back as 431 BC. CAST HOLLY HUNTER – Hester Swane DARREN GREER – The Ghost Fancier SORCHA CUSACK – Monica Murray KATE COSRELLO – Josie Kilbride ELLIE FLYNN WATTERSON – Josie Kilbride CHLOE O'SULLIVAN – Josie Kilbride BARBARA BRENNAN – Mrs Kilbride BRID BRENNAN – Catwoman GORDON MACDONALD – Carthage Kilbride DENISE GOUGH – Caroline Cassidy TREVOR COOPER – Xavier Cassidy WARREN RUSHER – Young Dunne COLETTE KELLY – Waitress AOIFE MADDEN – Waitress PATRICK WALDRON – Father Willow ADAM BEST – Joseph Swane CREATIVES MARINA CARR – Playwright DOMINIC COOKE – Director HILDEGARD BECHTLER – Designer NICKY GILLIBRAND – Costume Designer JEAN KALMAN – Lighting Designer GARY YERSHON – Composer GARETH FRY – Sound Designer LIZ RANKEN – Movement Director LISA MAKIN – UK Casting

Back to Productions HAMLET – ANDREW SCOTT This production began its limited season on 9th June and closed on 2nd September 2017. ★★★★★ Andrew Scott is superb as Hamlet: he draws us with him through the famous soliloquies, making them feel fresh and alive Financial Times Following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Olivier Award-winning director Robert Icke’s new production of Hamlet which played in the West End for a limited season. ★★★★★ Moving seamlessly from the Almeida to the West End, Robert Icke's production of Hamlet remains extraordinarily, heartbreakingly beautiful Time Out Starring BAFTA and Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Birdland, Cock, Pride ) as the Danish Prince and Jessica Brown Findlay as Ophelia, Hamlet is brought to the stage by the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning creative team behind 1984 and Oresteia. Robert Icke ‘one of the most important forces in today’s theatre ’ (The Observer ) previously directed Mary Stuart, Uncle Vanya, Oresteia, Mr Burns and 1984 for the Almeida Theatre. Hamlet is produced by ATG , Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre , who are renowned for introducing ground-breaking, critically acclaimed transfers to the West End. ★★★★★ The Observer CAST BARRY AIRD – Fransisco/Gravedigger MADELINE APPIAH – Guildenstern DERBHLE CROTTY – Gertrude MARTY CRUIKSHANK – Player Queen JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY – Ophelia CALUM FINLAY – Rosencrantz JOSHUA HIGGOTT – Horatio DANIEL RABIN – Reynaldo DAVID RINTOUL – Ghost/Player King ANDREW SCOTT – Hamlet MAANUV THIARA – Marcellus LUKE THOMPSON – Laertes PETER WIGHT – Polonius ANGUS WRIGHT – Claudius MATTHEW WYNN – Bernardo/Player 3/Priest MARK DESEBROCK ANDY HAWTHORNE PENELOPE MCGHIE CREATIVES ROBERT ICKE – Director HILDEGARD BECHTLER – Designer NATASHA CHIVERS – Lighting Designer TIM GIBBONS – Sound Designer TAL YARDEN – Video Designer DANIEL RAGGETT – Associate Director JULIA HORAN – Casting

Back to Productions THE INHERITANCE – BROADWAY This production opened on 27th September 2019 and closed on 12th March 2020. Here is the play of this year and last year and quite possibly next year as well. Evening Standard It begins with a gathering of young, gay New Yorkers. Each have a story aching to come out… Perhaps the most important American play of the century. A richly imagined world that has the innate thrill of a page-turner. The Telegraph Profoundly touching and wickedly hilarious, Matthew Lopez ’s highly-anticipated two-part play, The Inheritance , asks how much we owe to those who lived and loved before us and questions the role we must play for future generations. Brilliantly re-envisioning E. M. Forster’s masterpiece Howard’s End to 21st-century New York, it follows the interlinking lives of three generations of gay men searching for a community of their own – and a place to call home. The Inheritance is a life-affirming journey of tears and laughter, through conflicts and connections, heartbreak and hope. A new play, generations in the making. A highly entertaining, rollercoaster epic. Pierces your emotional defences and enfolds you in its narrative. The Guardian CAST JORDAN BARBOUR JONATHAN BURKE ANDREW BURNAP DARRYL GENE DAUGHTY JR. DYLAN FREDERICK KYLE HARRIS JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY PAUL HILTON SAMUEL H.LEVINE CARSON MCCALLEY LOIS SMITH KYLE SOLLER SRTURO LUÍS SORIA CREATIVES MATTHEW LOPEZ – Playwright STEPHEN DALDRY – Director BOB CROWLEY – Designer JON CLARK – Lighting Designer PAUL ARDITTI – Sound Arditti PAUL ENGLISHBY – Music

Back to News & Press Centre stage: the women in charge of theatreland Thursday 24 October 2013 Theatreland’s top jobs and auditoriums are being snapped up by visionary women who are simultaneously challenging the status quo and producing sell-out runs. Nick Curtis goes behind the scenes. The most dynamic independent producer on Shaftesbury Avenue and Broadway is Sonia Friedman. To read the full article click here . Up Up

Back to News & Press La Cage and View win Drama League Awards Sunday 23 May 2010 LA CAGE AUX FOLLES has been named Distinguished Revival of a Musical and A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Distinguished Revival of a Play at the 2010 Drama League Awards. The awards were announced at the 76th Annual Drama League Awards held on May 21, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. Up Up

Back to News & Press Merrily We Roll Along transfers to The Harold Pinter Theatre Friday 22 February 2013 Due to unprecedented demand and huge critical acclaim – including winning the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical (New or Revival) for 2012 – the Chocolate Factory’s production of the Sondheim/ Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along directed by Maria Friedman will begin previews at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 23 April. It will open 1 May for a strictly limited 12-week season. Set over three decades in the entertainment business Merrily We Roll Along charts the turbulent relationship between three friends Franklin, Mary and Charley. Starting in 1980 and travelling backwards in time, this powerful and moving story features some of Sondheim’s most beautiful songs including ‘Good Thing Going’, ‘Not a Day Goes By’ and ‘Old Friends’. The impressively talented cast includes Mark Umbers, Jenna Russell and Damian Humbley, as Franklin Shepard, Mary Flynn and Charles Kringas respectively. Mark Umbers has appeared in the Chocolate Factory’s production of Sweet Charity, My Fair Lady, The Browning Version and the BBC’s The Scarlet Pimpernel. Jenna Russell won an Olivier Award and a Tony nomination for her role as Dot in the Chocolate Factory’s production of Sunday in the Park with George. Her other notable credits include Guys and Dolls, Soho Cinders, Into the Woods and Season’s Greetings. Damian Humbley starred in Lend Me A Tenor – the Musical, The Woman in White and the Chocolate Factory’s production of The Last Five Years. The production co-stars Josefina Gabrielle (Olivier nominated for Sweet Charity) as Gussie Carnegie, Clare Foster (Crazy for You, Regent’s Park/West End) as Beth and Glyn Kerslake (Road Show, Chocolate Factory) as Joe Josephson. The ensemble features Matthew Barrow, Martin Callaghan, Amanda Minihan, Kirk Patterson, Amy Ellen Richardson, Ashley Robinson, Robbie Scotcher, Zizi Strallen and Joanna Woodward. Making her directorial debut, Maria Friedman’s extensive performing credits include Maria Friedman: Re-arranged, which transferred from the Chocolate Factory to Trafalgar Studios (Olivier Award nomination for Best Entertainment); Fosca in Sondheim’s Passion (Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical); Mother in Ragtime (Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical); Maria Friedman, by Special Arrangement which transferred from the Donmar Warehouse to the Whitehall Theatre (Olivier Award for Best Entertainment); Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre (Olivier Award nomination); Sunday in the Park with George (Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Performance of the Year by an Actress in a Musical) and Lady in the Dark (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical) both at the National Theatre; West End and Broadway productions of The Woman in White (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical/Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut). Orchestrations are by long-time Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick whose credits include the Chocolate Factory’s production of Road Show and the original Broadway productions of Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along and Into the Woods. He is one of just 11 people to have won all four major American show business awards: Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy. Design is by award-winning Soutra Gilmour, whose work includes the Chocolate Factory’s recent production of Torch Song Trilogy, the recent Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth currently playing at the Trafalgar Studios. David Hersey was Lighting Consultant for the National Theatre for ten years. He has also received Tony Awards for Best Lighting Design for Evita, Cats and Les Misérables and Olivier Awards for Burning Blue, The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night (RSC). He was lighting designer for the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along. Sound designer Gareth Owen was nominated for the Tony and Olivier for End of the Rainbow and the Tony for the Chocolate Factory’s A Little Night Music. He currently has fifteen shows running around the world, including Disney’s Little Mermaid, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. Musical supervision and direction is by Catherine Jayes who was musical supervisor and director for the Chocolate Factory’s production of Road Show. She is an associate director of Cheek by Jowl and has worked as musical supervisor/director for many Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre productions. For this production audiences will be able to take advantage of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s dynamic pricing policy with 100 seats* at £25.00 in the stalls and dress circle on sale for every performance until Saturday 1 June. The production will be presented by Chocolate Factory Productions, Bob Bartner, Just for Laughs Theatricals, Tanya Link, Neal Street Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions. *These seats will NOT be restricted view Up Up

Back to Productions A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG This production began performances on 25th September 2001 and closed on 26th January 2002. Sonia Friedman for the Ambassador Theatre Group and Adam Kenwright presnt “A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE EGG ” by Peter Nichols . CAST CLIVE OWEN/EDDIE IZZARD – Bri VICTORIA HAMILTON – Sheila ELIZABETH HOLMES-GWILLIM/SEOPHIE BLEASDALE – Joe JOHN WARNABY – Freddie ROBIN WEAVER – Pam PRUNELLA SCALES – Grace CREATIVES PETER NICHOLS – Playwright LAURENCE BOSWELL – Director ES DEVLIN – Designer ADAM SILVERMAN – Lighting Designer FERGUS O'HARE – Sound Designer

Back to News & Press To Kill A Mockingbird opens in the West End to critical acclaim and immediately extends due to public demand Thursday 31 March 2022 Barry Diller and Sonia Friedman today announce the extension of the critically acclaimed West End production of Harper Lee ’s To Kill a Mockingbird – a new play by Aaron Sorkin – with the production now running at the Gielgud Theatre until 19 November, 2022. Bartlett Sher directs a cast of over thirty - Rafe Spall (Atticus Finch), Harry Attwell (Mr Cunningham/Boo Radley), Amanda Boxer (Mrs Henry Dubose), Poppy Lee Friar (Mayella Ewell), John Hastings (Bailiff), Simon Hepworth (Mr Roscoe/Dr Reynolds), Laura Howard (Miss Stephanie/Dill’s Mother), Lloyd Hutchinson (Link Deas), Gwyneth Keyworth (Scout Finch), Tom Mannion (Sheriff Heck Tate), David Moorst (Dill Harris), Pamela Nomvete (Calpurnia), Jim Norton (Judge Taylor), Patrick O’Kane (Bob Ewell), Jude Owusu (Tom Robinson), Harry Redding (Jem Finch), David Sturzaker (Horace Gilmer) and Natasha Williams (Mrs Dubose’s Maid), with Helen Belbin , Laurence Belcher , Paul Birchard , Ryan Ellsworth , Rebecca Hayes , Danny Hetherington , Matthew Jure , Anna Munden, Tiwai Muza, Oyin Orija and Itoya Osagiede making up the ensemble and understudies, with Candida Caldicot on organ and Frank Dawkins on guitar. To Kill a Mockingbird is running the All Rise ticket scheme in an exclusive partnership with TodayTix , offering £15 seats for every performance across the run. The initiative provides access at affordable prices to as wide an audience as possible. More than 1,400 tickets will be released each month. So far more than 2,000 tickets have been sold via the scheme with a further 10,000 being made available through to November starting from next week. In addition to the All Rise initiative, there is an opportunity to purchase £15 tickets via Today Tix daily rush – where a limited number of additional seats will be available on each performance day via the app. The TodayTix app can be downloaded onto iOs or Android devices for free via the app store; or you can access online via TodayTix.com. Set in Maycomb, Alabama in 1934, To Kill a Mockingbird has provided American literature with some of its most indelible characters: lawyer Atticus Finch, the tragically wronged Tom Robinson, Atticus’ daughter Scout, her brother Jem, their housekeeper and caretaker Calpurnia and the reclusive Arthur “Boo” Radley. For the past six decades and for every generation, this story, its characters and portrait of small-town America have helped to, and continue to, inspire conversation and change. Harper Lee’s enduring story of racial injustice and childhood innocence has sold more than 45 million copies of the novel worldwide. 2020 marked the 60th anniversary of its publication. Sher and the original Broadway creative team - Miriam Buether (Set), Ann Roth (Costume), Jennifer Tipton (Lighting), Scott Lehrer (Sound), Adam Guettel (Original Score), Kimberly Grigsby (Music Supervision) and Campbell Young Associates (Hair & Wigs) – are joined by Serena Hill as Casting Director, Hazel Holder as Voice & Dialect Coach, Titas Halder as Associate Director, Rasheka Christie-Carter as Assistant Director, Tavia Rivée Jefferson as Cultural Coordinator, and Candida Caldicot as Musical Director. For latest news sign up at www.tokillamockingbird.co.uk . Up Up

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Back to Productions DON JUAN IN SOHO This production previewed from 17th March and opened on 28th March 2017. The strictly-limited run closed on 10th June 2017. ★★★★ David Tennant dazzles with a beguiling, fleet-footed charm The Guardian “Please don’t be charmed, he’s not a lovable rogue...” Loosely based on Molière tragicomedy 'Don Juan', this savagely funny and filthy modern update transports the action to contemporary London and follows the final adventures of its debauched protagonist – a cruel seducer who lives only for pleasure. The rudest, raunchiest, most unabashedly guilty pleasure in town The Hollywood Reporter David Tennant returns to the West End in March 2017 to play the title role in Patrick Marber ’s Don Juan in Soho. Direction is by Patrick Marber with set and costume designs by Anna Fleischle (who won the Olivier Award for Hangmen at the same venue) and sound and music by Adam Cork . Further casting will be announced at a later date. Marber ’s Don Juan in Soho , which premiered to great acclaim ten years ago at the Donmar Warehouse, is now produced in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw , Nia Janis and Nick Salmo n for Playful Productions in association with Sonia Friedman Productions . Funny, acerbic and biting The Times CAST DAVID TENNANT – Don Juan CREATIVES PATRICK MARBER – Playwright and Director ANNA FLEISCHLE – Set and Costume Designer ADAM CORK – Sound and Music

Back to News & Press Full cast announced for terrifying psychological thriller The Haunting of Hill House at Liverpool Playhouse Wednesday 11 November 2015 The production is a collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and HAMMER to create the first major UK stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel. The production will play at the Williamson Square venue from Monday 7 December to Saturday 16 January. This Christmas at the Playhouse, following the international and West End success of Ghost Stories, the horror genre makes a return with The Haunting of Hill House. Emily Bevan plays Eleanor. Emily can currently be seen in ITV’s Doc Martin and she is also known for her roles in J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (BBC) and playing one of the leads in the BAFTA award-winning supernatural drama series In The Flesh (BBC). Her other credits include The Ark (BBC), The Thick of It (BBC) and Phone Shop (Channel 4). Chipo Chung plays Theodora. Chipo is a well-known face from stage and screen, her theatre credits include Fu Manchu Complex (Oval House Theatre) and Phaedre (National Theatre) and for the Everyman & Playhouse she has appeared in The Mayor Of Zalamea and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Her many television and film roles include Fortitude (Sky), Camelot (Channel 4), Black Mirror (Channel 4) and In the Loop. Jane Guernier plays Mrs Dudley and Celia Markway. Jane has worked extensively with Told by an Idiot including the productions And the Horse You Road In On and Beauty and the Beast. Her other stage and screen credits include Brand (RSC), Shelf Life (National Theatre of Wales) and The Bletchley Circle (ITV). Joseph May plays Luke. Joseph is well known for the role of Andy Button in Episodes (BBC), while his other screen credits include I Live with Models (Comedy Central), Holby City (BBC) and Mistresses (ABC). His theatre credits include No Naughty Bits (Hampstead Theatre) and Serious Money (Birmingham Rep). Martin Turner plays Dr Montague. Renowned for his stage and screen roles, Martin’s most recent stage roles include The King's Speech (Chichester Festival Theatre), Medea (National Theatre), Twelve Angry Men (Garrick Theatre) and A Life of Galileo (RSC). On screen he has appeared in New Tricks (BBC) and Law and Order: UK (ITV). Martin is well known for playing the role of Banquo in Rupert Goold’s production on Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, the West End, Brooklyn Academy of Music and on film. This stage version of The Haunting of Hill House is adapted by Anthony Neilson. His previous theatre credits include The Wonderful World of Dissocia, National Theatre Scotland; Realism, Edinburgh International Festival; Narrative, Royal Court Theatre and The Censor, Finborough Theatre. The production is directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still. Her credits as director and co-designer include From Morning To Midnight and The Revenger's Tragedy (both National Theatre) and Coram Boy (National Theatre and Broadway); Rats' Tales, Manchester Royal Exchange (also adaptor); Rusalka and The Cunning Vixen, Glyndebourne Opera. Shirley Jackson established herself as one of America’s leading horror authors of the 20th Century thanks to a writing style of cryptic symbolism in the Gothic mold in which abnormal behaviour seemed perilously ordinary. As well as The Haunting of Hill House, her notable works include The Hangsaman and The Lottery. Such is the standing of The Haunting of Hill House in the horror cannon that Stephen King, in his book Danse Macabre, calls the novel "one of the finest books ever to come out of the genre". An alternative theatre experience over the festive period, the 150-year-old Playhouse is the perfect setting for this terrifying psychological thriller. Up Up