Back to News & Press Striking new underwater image of Rosmersholm released today Thursday, 21 March 2019 Tom Burke (Strike, The Musketeers ) will play the soulful John Rosmer haunted by history and tradition. Hayley Atwell (Howards End, Captain America ) will be Rebecca West, an enigmatic and unpredictable, free-spirited heroine. Giles Terera (Hamilton , West End) will be Andreas Kroll, a powerful moral voice, who struggles to reconcile his friendship to Rosmer amidst the changing political tides. Henrik Ibsen’s classic examination of a country in state of political flux has been adapted by Duncan Macmillan and is directed by Ian Rickson. The cast also includes Lucy Briers (Wolf Hall, West End/Broadway) as Mrs Helseth, Jake Fairbrother (Lady from the Sea, Donmar Warehouse) as Peter Mortensgaard and Peter Wight (The Birthday Party, West End) as Ulrik Brendel. An election looming. A country on the brink. A rabid press baying for blood. At the centre of the storm is Rosmersholm, the grand house of an influential dynasty. This is where the future will be decided by John Rosmer – a man torn between the idealised hope of the future and the ghosts of his past. Rosmersholm will play at the Duke of York’s Theatre from April 24th, with an opening night of May 2nd. The run will end on July 20th. View the image on our website: https://rosmersholmplay.com/ Produced by Sonia Friedman Productions With Brenda Leff, Colin Callender, John Gore, 1001 Nights Productions, Burnt Umber Productions, Bradford W. Edgerton Living Trust, Tulchin Bartner Productions. 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 Casting is announced for the transfer of Claire Van Kampen's new play Farinelli and the King Friday, 27 March 2015 Shakespeare's Globe and Sonia Friedman Productions are delighted to announce the West End transfer of Claire van Kampen’s critically-acclaimed new play Farinelli and the King, directed by John Dove, designed by Jonathan Fensom and starring Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Jerusalem, Richard III, Twelfth Night), as King Philippe V of Spain. Sam Crane will once again play the acting role of Farinelli, while the singing role will be reprised by opera star, Iestyn Davies and shared with Rupert Enticknap. The rest of the cast will also transfer with Huss Garbiya playing Doctor Jose Cervi, Melody Grove playing Isabella Farnese, Colin Hurley as Metastasio and Edward Peel as De la Cuadra. The Duke of York’s Theatre will be transformed as the magical and intimate atmosphere of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is brought to the West End with onstage seating, candles and live Baroque music played by six onstage musicians, led by Harpsichordist and Musical Director Robert Howarth. Directed by John Dove and designed by Jonathan Fensom, the West End production will open on 14th September 2015 and play for a strictly limited run until December 5th. Opening Night will be on Tuesday 29th September. Set in eighteenth-century Spain, Claire van Kampen's moving and mesmerising new play tells the intriguing true story of Farinelli, once the world’s most famous castrato and one of the greatest celebrities of his time, and his decision to trade fame and fortune in the opera-houses of Europe for a life of servitude at the court of King Philippe V. This enchanting new play explores the dynamics between Farinelli and the royal couple, featuring many of the exquisite arias first sung by Farinelli in the 1730’s. The Duke of York’s Theatre will be transformed for this sumptuous production, lit almost exclusively by the glow of candle-light and with live music played on Baroque instruments. Mark Rylance last appeared in a Globe production in 2012 in Tim Carroll's hugely lauded sell-out productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III, which subsequently enjoyed phenomenally successful West End and Broadway runs, also produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. Mark’s other recent theatre credits include Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, (Royal Court, West End, Broadway) and this year he also starred as Thomas Cromwell in the BBC2 adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall. It has recently been announced that Mark will play the title role in the Steven Spielberg feature film of Dahl’s the BFG. Claire van Kampen, founding Director of Music, Shakespeare’s Globe has created music for over 45 productions there, including The Duchess of Malfi with Gemma Arterton. A theatre specialist on music and text of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, her stage credits also include original scores for Matthew Warchus’ Broadway productions of Boeing-Boeing. La Bete and True West. Claire’s television and film credits include Peter Kosminsky’s Wolf Hall, Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous and Christian Camargo's Days and Nights. John Dove’s previous directorial work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes Dr Scroggy’s War, Blue Stockings, All’s Well That Ends Well, Anne Boleyn, In Extremis, Measure for Measure (LA and New York Tour) and The Winter’s Tale (Tour). He is an Artistic Associate of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh where he has directed Pressure by David Haig, a co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, View From the Bridge, The Price and The Man Who Had All the Luck. John was Associate Director at Hampstead Theatre and has also directed at the Royal Court, The Old Vic, The Lyric Hammersmith, the Bush Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford E15. Jonathan Fensom’s previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes The Changeling, The Duchess of Malfi, (both at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), The Life and Death of King John, Julius Caesar, Gabriel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, King Lear and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Other theatre includes Rain Man, Some Girls, Twelfth Night, Smaller, Journey’s End, What the Butler Saw, East (West End). Jonathan was the Associate Set Designer on Disney’s The Lion King, which premiered at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and has subsequently opened worldwide. His set design for Journey’s End (West End and Broadway) was nominated for a Tony Award in 2007. The production won the Tony Award for Best Revival. Jonathan won the UK Theatre Award for Best Design in 2013. Praised as 'one of the most glorious countertenor voices in the world today' by the Independent and described as 'superb' by the New York Times, Iestyn Davies’ recent awards include the 2013 Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent and the 2014 Gramophone Recital Award for his recent disc Arise, my muse. A versatile performer equally at home on both the opera and concert stage, Iestyn has sung roles for New York's Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Paris' Opera Comique, English National Opera, Milan's Teatro alla Scala and at the Munich and Vienna Festivals. He has also performed in concert and recital at the Barbican, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms and London's Wigmore Hall. Sam Crane starred as Winston Smith in Headlong’s recent critically-acclaimed production of 1984 when it transferred from the Almeida to the West End. His other stage credits include The Humans (BAM New York), Henry IV Parts One & Two and Othello (Globe Theatre), Some Trace of Her and DNA (National Theatre), Kebab (Royal Court) and Ghosts (Bristol Old Vic). He received the Ian Charleson Award for Othello and Ghosts. His screen credits include Desperate Romantics (series), Call the Midwife and Poirot. Rupert Enticknap is a British countertenor who recently played Nerillus in L’Ormindo at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, a ground-breaking collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe and The Royal Opera House. His previous performances at the Royal Opera House include the world premiere of Richter's SUM for ROH2 in the Linbury Studio Theatre. Rupert has worked with numerous conductors worldwide including Laurence Cummings, Alan Curtis, Harry Bicket, Rubén Dubrovsky, René Jacobs, Ottavio Dantone, Fabio Biondi, Christophe Rousset and Jean-Christophe Spinosi. His upcoming engagements include Handel’s Agrippina in Iford under Christopher Bucknall and Florian Leopold Gassmann’s L’Opera Seria at Brussel’s La Monnaie with René Jacobs. Huss Garbiya previously performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in The Frontline, Blue Stockings, and Dominic Dromgoole’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which was later screened in cinemas as part of the 2014 Globe on Screen season, before touring to Asia and Russia. His other stage credits include The Comedy of Errors (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and The Taming of the Shrew (RSC). Melody Grove recently appeared in In Lambeth at Southwark Playhouse. Elsewhere her theatre credits include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (National Theatre of Scotland), Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic), The Importance of Being Earnest (Lyric Belfast/ Lyceum Edinburgh) and Of Mice and Men (Lyceum, Edinburgh). Colin Hurley previously performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in Twelfth Night, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Macbeth, The Golden Ass, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida and In Extremis. For the National Theatre his credits include Remember This, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Mary Stuart, Wild Oats, Richard III and King Lear and for the RSC he has appeared in A Month In The Country, Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida. Edward Peel has performed in numerous productions at Shakespeare’s Globe including ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Eternal Love, Blue Stockings, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Anne Boleyn, Troilus and Cressida and The Winter’s Tale. His extensive credits elsewhere include Enemies at the Almeida Theatre, The Dragon, Twelfth Night and D.H.Lawrence Trilogy for the Royal Court, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Drum Theatre and An Inspector Calls at the National Theatre. He is perhaps best known for his television roles in Juliet Bravo, Cracker, London’s Burning and Doctor Who. Up Up

Back to News & Press Full casting announced for the West End transfer of Patriots Tuesday, 25 April 2023 Joining the previously announced BAFTA-winning actor Tom Hollander (White Lotus, The Night Manager; Travesties ) as Boris Berezovsky, Will Keen (His Dark Materials ) as Vladimir Putin and Luke Thallon (Albion ) as Roman Abramovich are Matt Concannon (Assistant/Daniel Kahneman/Russian Captain), Ronald Guttman (Professor Perelman), Sean Kingsley (Voloshin /Nurse), Paul Kynman (Korzhakov/Yeltsin/FSB Boss/Reporter/Bodyguard) and Jessica Temple (Anna Berezovsky/Newscaster/Journalist/Secretary/Pianist) all reprising their roles from the Almeida Theatre run, and new cast members Josef Davies (Alexander Litvinenko), Ashley Gerlach (Lawyer/Home Office), Howard Gossington (Teacher/Compromised Newscaster), Stefanie Martini (Marina Litvinenko/Nina Berezovsky) and Evelyn Miller (Tatiana/Katya/Judge/Lover). They are joined by understudies Peter Eastland , Lydia Fraser and Matt McClure . Patriots is internationally award-winning writer Peter Morgan ’s (Frost/Nixon ) first new play since The Audience. Peter is best known for writing the multi-award-winning Netflix hit, The Crown. It is the Almeida’s fastest-selling new play and transfers to the Noël Coward Theatre for a limited twelve-week run from 26 May to 19 August 2023, with opening night on 6 June 2023. Directed by the Almeida’s Artistic Director, Rupert Goold (Ink, Enron ), Patriots is a brilliant and startlingly timely story of ambition, loyalty and betrayal in a brave new world. Up Up

Back to News & Press Ink to transfer to the Duke of York's theatre in September Sunday, 16 July 2017 Featuring Bertie Carvel as Rupert Murdoch and Richard Coyle as Larry Lamb. Ink will transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited run from Saturday 9 September 2017 – Saturday 6 January 2018. Over 20,000 tickets for the West End run will be on sale at £20 or less with tickets at all performances from just £10. Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. A young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asks the impossible and launches The Sun’s first editor’s quest: to give the people what they want. No matter the cost. Following a sell-out season at the Almeida, Ink , written by James Graham (This House) and directed by Rupert Goold (King Charles III ), transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season. With a cast featuring Bertie Carvel (Doctor Foster, Matilda ) and Richard Coyle (The Lover/The Collection ), this ruthless, red-topped new play leads with the birth of this country’s most influential newspaper. James Graham said: "It's been such a creatively rewarding experience, building this show at the Almeida. I'm in absolute awe of our actors and the creative team, led by Rupert. And grateful to the audiences who've been coming and supporting the work. After being given the chance to revive This House in the West End earlier this year I think it's really exciting to see so many new and politically-engaged plays being given the chance to find a wider audience." Rupert Goold said: "I’m thrilled the Almeida’s production of Ink will transfer to the West End this autumn and that we are able to share James Graham ’s brilliant play, together with Bunny Christie ’s ingenious set design and our sensational company of actors, with a wider audience. Ink is a play about ambition, truth and the power of the press - and for that reason it has never felt a more timely and significant story to tell." Bertie Carvel ’s theatre credits include: Bakkhai ; Rope (for the Almeida), The Hairy Ape (Old Vic); Damned by Despair ; The Man of Mode ; Life of Galileo ; Coram Boy (National Theatre); Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival); Matilda: The Musical (RSC / West End/Broadway); The Pride (Chichester/ UK tour); Parade (Donmar Warehouse); Faustus (Etcetera Theatre); Professor Bernhardi ; Rose Bernd (OSC/Arcola/Dumbfounded Theatre); Macbeth (Union Theatre / En Masse); Revelations (Hampstead Theatre), and as a director, Strife (Chichester). Television includes: Doctor Foster ; Coalition ; The Wrong Mans ; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ; Babylon ; Restless; Hidden ; The Crimson Petal & The White ; Just William ; Sherlock ; Midsomer Murders ; Waking The Dead ; Primeval ; John Adams ; Doctor Who ; Holby City ; The Genius of Beethoven ; Bombshell ; Hawking . Film includes: Les Misérables . Bertie trained at RADA and got his first job in the BBC Radio Drama company, with whom he has performed in over fifty plays. Richard Coyle ’s theatre credits include: Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory); Polar Bears; After Miss Julie; Proof (Donmar Warehouse); The Lover / The Collection (West End); Look Back In Anger (Theatre Royal Bath); Don Carlos (Crucible, Sheffield / West End); The York Realist (Royal Court & West End). Television includes: Hard Sun; Born to Kill; The Fall; The Collection; AD; Crossbones; Life of Crime; Covert Affairs; Going Postal; Whistleblowers; The History of Mr Polly; Cracker; The Best Man; Gunpowder, Treason and Plot; Strange; Coupling; Film includes: The Food Guide to Love; Pusher; Grabbers; W.E.; 5 Days of War; Prince of Persia; Franklyn; A Good Year; The Libertine; Happy Now; Young Blades; Topsy-Turvy; Human Traffic; Jane Eyre . Ink is James Graham ’s Almeida debut. His work for theatre, television and film includes This House , which had two sell-out runs at The National theatre, and a run at the Garrick Theatre in the West End, was broadcast to cinemas internationally by NT Live and will tour the UK early 2018; Finding Neverland (book) on Broadway; Privacy and The Vote (broadcast live on television on election night 2015) at the Donmar Warehouse; Coalition for Channel 4; Monster Raving Loony for Theatre Royal Plymouth and Soho Theatre, and The Whisky Taster at the Bush Theatre. He remains the writer in residence at the Finborough Theatre. His first feature film X+Y for BBC Films was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival before an international cinema release in Spring 2015. James has been commissioned to write a TV drama set around the events of the 2016 Referendum and a film adaptation of 1984. Rupert Goold is the Almeida’s Artistic Director where he has previously directed Richard III , which was broadcast live to cinemas around the world in July 2016, Medea , The Merchant of Venice , King Charles III and American Psycho , which opened on Broadway in April 2016. He was Artistic Director of Headlong from 2005 until 2013 where his work included The Effect , ENRON , Earthquakes in London and Decade . Other theatre credits include Made in Dagenham in the West End; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway; and No Man’s Land at The Gate, Dublin and in the West End. He has twice been the recipient of the Laurence Olivier, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Director. He was Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2009 to 2012 and was Artistic Director of Northampton Theatres from 2002 to 2005. On film he directed the BAFTA nominated Richard II , part of The Hollow Crown , and Macbeth for the BBC, feature True Story , starring James Franco and Jonah Hill, and an adaptation of his production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III for BBC Two. Rupert was awarded a CBE for services to drama in the 2017 New Year’s Honours. Full casting to be announced. Up Up

Back to Productions HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES This production began performances on 17 April and will close on 16 June 2024. Precise & intelligent. A kind of dramatic pointillism, the moments collecting into a larger image. The New York Times This new piece from Tectonic Theater Project (The Laramie Project ) is conceived and directed by NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony and Emmy nominee Moisés Kaufman and co-written by Emmy nominee Amanda Gronich . Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times cheered, “Moisés Kaufman conducts this impeccable production with symphonic subtlety.” Astonishing. A new, invaluable holocaust stage documentary. New York Stage Review In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unraveled the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity. Riveting. An innovative multi-sensory experience. You're a witness to history being reclaimed. The Washington Post CAST SCOTT BARROW – Karl Höcker & Others NEMUNA CEESAY – Charlotte Schünzel & Others KATHLEEN CHALFANT – Judy Cohen & Others NOAH KEYISHIAN – U/S Karl, Rainer & Others JONATHAN RAVIV – Tilman Taube & Others ERIKA ROSE – Melita Maschmann & Others ANNA SHAFER – U/S Rebecca, Charlotte, Melita ELIZABETH STAHLMANN – Rebecca Erbelding & Others CHARLIE THURSTON – Rainer Höss & Others GRANT JAMES VARJAS – Peter Wirthis & Others CREATIVES TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT MOISÉS KAUFMAN – Conciever and Co-Writer AMANDA GRONICH – Co-Writer DEREK MCLANE – Scenic Design DEDE AYITE – Costume Design DAVID LANDER – Lighting Design BOBBY MCELVER – Sound Design DAVID BENGALI – Projection Design ANN JAMES – Intimacy Coordinator & Sensitivity Specialist AMY MARIE SEIDEL – Associate Director & Dramaturh STEPHANIE YANKWITT – Casting JACOB RUSSELL – Stage Manager GILLIAM LELCHUK – Assistnat Stage Manager

Back to News & Press La Cage Aux Folles announces additional casting Friday, 19 February 2010 Joining five-time Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer as Georges and Olivier Award-winner Douglas Hodge as Albin will be A.J. Shively, a recent University of Michigan graduate, making his Broadway debut as Jean-Michel; Tony nominee Veanne Cox (Company, Caroline, or Change) as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud; Tony-nominee Robin de Jesús (In the Heights) as Jacob; two-time Tony nominee Christine Andreas (My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, On Your Toes) as Jacqueline; Elena Shaddow (Fiddler on the Roof, The Woman in White, Fanny at Encores!) as Anne; Chris Hoch (Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, Shrek the Musical) as Francis; Heather Lindell (Hairspray) as Colette; Bill Nolte (The Producers, 1776) as Tabarro and David Nathan Perlow (White Noise) as Etienne. Also starring as the notorious and dangerous Cagelles will be Nick Adams (A Chorus Line, Guys and Dolls, Chicago), Nicholas Cunningham (La Cage aux Folles/West End), Sean Patrick Doyle (Fiddler on the Roof national tour, Wig Out!), Yurel Echezarreta (West Side Story), Terry Lavell (Hairspray/Las Vegas, Smokey Joe’s Café/national tour) and Logan Keslar (West Side Story/West End, On the Town/Paper Mill Playhouse). The production also features Christophe Caballero, Todd Lattimore, Dale Hensley and Cheryl Stern. More casting will be announced soon. Rehearsals begin Monday, March 1. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES begins previews on Tuesday, April 6 and opens on Sunday, April 18 at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). The production is now on sale through Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at www.telecharge.com/lacage. Also visit www.lacage.com for the production’s newly launched website, including a special video introduction from Kelsey Grammer and the Cagelles. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret. This freshly reconceived production is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Terry Johnson. Georges (Kelsey Grammer) is the suave owner of a glitzy drag club on the French Riviera. Partnered romantically with his high-strung star performer, Albin (Douglas Hodge), the pair live a charmed life—until Georges’ son announces his engagement to the daughter of a conservative right-wing politician who’s coming to dinner. Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Cunningham are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association for its assistance to this production. The original production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES was one of Broadway’s biggest hits of the 1980s. It opened August 21, 1983 at the Palace Theatre, where it played for over four years and 1,761 performances. The show won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical, Best Score (Jerry Herman) and Best Book (Harvey Fierstein). The new production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES played from November 23, 2007 to March 8, 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory, earning across the board raves and moving to the West End’s Playhouse Theatre on October 30, 2008, where it was nominated for seven 2009 Olivier Awards, winning for Best Musical Revival and Best Actor in a Musical for Douglas Hodge and won the 2009 Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical. “A glorious night of showbiz razzle dazzle!” exclaimed Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph. “At last a musical to sweep away those credit-crunch blues. This joyous show deserves every hurrah and standing ovation it receives.” “Suddenly, the West End sparkles,” cheered Sam Marlowe, The Times. “Sew on a sequin, slip into some heels and go.” The production features set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright, wig and makeup design by Richard Mawbey, lighting design by Nick Richings and sound design by Gareth Owen. Orchestrations and Musical Supervision are by Jason Carr. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES will be produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, David Babani, Fran and Barry Weissler and Edwin W. Schloss, Robert G. Bartner, Broadway Across America, Matthew Mitchell, Raise the Roof 4/Richard Winkler/Bensinger Taylor, Jerry Frankel, Independent Presenters Network, Olympus Theatricals, Allen Spivak. Up Up

Back to News & Press A Christmas Carol rehearsal images released Friday, 13 November 2015 Rehearsal photography is released today of the cast and creative team for A Christmas Carol, giving the first, behind-the-scenes look at Academy award-winning actor Jim Broadbent preparing for his long-awaited return to stage as Ebenezer Scrooge alongside fellow cast Adeel Akhtar, Amelia Bullmore, Keir Charles and Samantha Spiro with puppeteers Jack Parker and Kim Scopes completing the ensemble. View the photographs here. This new version of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Patrick Barlow from Charles Dickens' classic story of greed, grief, ghoulish ghosts and eleventh-hour redemption will play a strictly limited run at the Noël Coward Theatre from 30 November to 30 January. Many performances are sold out with best availability in January. From Scrooge and Tiny Tim to Bob Cratchit and Mr. Fezziwig, Patrick Barlow's imaginative adaptation of A Christmas Carol will bring some of Dickens' most memorable characters to life at the Noël Coward Theatre this winter. Coming together to create this innovative new work are some of our most loved and mischievous maverick theatre-makers. The play is written by the Olivier award-winning and Tony nominated Patrick Barlow (The 39 Steps) with whom Jim Broadbent performed for many years in Barlow’s cult comedy troupe The National Theatre of Brent. A Christmas Carol is directed by Olivier award-winning Phelim McDermott, Artistic Director of Improbable, one of Britain’s most inventive theatre companies, who is responsible for the iconic production Shockheaded Peter. McDermott also directed Theatre of Blood at the National Theatre in which Broadbent last appeared on stage. Joining them is the critically-acclaimed designer Tom Pye (The Testament of Mary, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Low Road) and Toby Sedgwick (War Horse, The 39 Steps) as Director of Movement, Peter Mumford will design the lighting and Gareth Fry will design sound. A Christmas Carol and The Mackintosh Foundation are proud to be supporting St Martin-in-the-Fields’ Christmas Appeal by donating 50 pence for each ticket purchased. The appeal raises money to assist homeless people with shelter, food, help and advice. Customers, as part of the purchasing process, will be asked if they would also like to donate 50 pence with each ticket purchased. Registered charity no 1156305/261359. Up Up

Back to Productions SHIFTERS This production began on 12 August and closed on 12 October 2024. ★★★★ 'The perfect bittersweet rom-com' Evening Standard Dre and Des. Young. Gifted. Black. He stayed. She left. Years later, Des and Dre come crashing back into each other’s lives, carrying new secrets and old scars. With the clock counting down until Des has to leave again, memories of their teen years collide with their present and they’re forced to question if destiny has brought them back together for a reason. ★★★★ 'Smouldering and soulful' Time Out Eleanor Lloyd Productions , Chuchu Nwagu Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions are delighted to offer you the opportunity to invest in the West End premiere of Benedict Lombe ’s play Shifters , directed by Lynette Linton in a transfer from the Bush Theatre. Do you believe in destiny? Shifters , “the perfect bittersweet rom-com” (Evening Standard) is transferring to the West End, following a critically-acclaimed incredible, sold-out run at the Bush Theatre. This fierce new romance is “smouldering and soulful” (Time Out) and a must-see for anyone longing for a different kind of love story. Written by Benedict Lombe (Lava , winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Playwriting), directed by Evening Standard Theatre Award winner Lynette Linton (Blues for an Alabama Sky , August in England ) and starring the “tremendous” (The Observer) Tosin Cole (BBC’s Doctor Who, Netflix’s Supacell) and the “irresistible” (London Theatre) Heather Agyepong (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play , Lyric Hammersmith). Shifters is a beautifully intoxicating and relatable reminder of the enduring power of memory and young love. A universal story, full of heart, it’s “laugh out loud funny and tears-to-the-eyes moving” (The Times). ★★★★ 'Laugh out loud funny and tears to the eyes moving' The Times CAST TOSIN COLE HEATHER AGYEPONG CREATIVES BENEDICT LOMBE – Playwright LYNETTE LINTON – Director ALEX BERRY – Set and Costume Design NEIL AUSTIN – Lighting Design TONY GAYLE – Sound Design XANA – Composition SHELLEY MAXWELL – Movement and Intimacy Direction DEIRDRE O'HALLORAN – Production Dramaturg JOEL TRILL – Voice Coach HEATHER BASTEN CDG – Casting

Back to Productions MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG This production began performances on 23rd April, opened on 1st May and ended its strictly limited season on 27th July 2013. ★★★★★ It is, make no mistake, one of the great musical productions of this or any era. The Independent 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’. ★★★★★ Maria Friedman’s glorious revival, rightly transferred to the West End The Daily Telegraph Due to unprecedented demand and huge critical acclaim – including winning the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical (New or Revival) in 2012 – the Chocolate Factory’s production of the Sondheim /Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along directed by Maria Friedman will open at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Chocolate Factory Productions , Neil Street Productions , Sonia Friedman Productions , Bob Bartner & Norman Tulchin , Debbie Bisno , Scott M Delman , Just for Laughs Theatricals , Tanya Link present the Menier Chocolate Factory production of “MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG ”. ★★★★★ The most intelligent, gripping, brilliant musical in town, perfectly realised. Anyone with a heart should come out reeling The Times CAST ASHLEY ROBINSON – Tyler MARTIN CALLAGHAN – Terry/Mr Spencer AMANDA MINIHAN – Scott/Mrs Spencer JULIE JUPP – Dory/Evelyn JENNA RUSSELL – Mary Flynn MATTHEW BARROW – Ru MARK UMBERS – Franklin Shephard AMY ELLEN RICHARDSON – KT ROBBIE SCOTCHER – Jerome ZIZI STRALLEN – Meg Kincaid KIRK PATTERSON – Bunker/Newsman/Reverend JOSAFINA GABRIELLE – Gussie Carnehgie JOANNA WOODWARD – Newswoman/Waitress DAMIAN HUMBLEY – Charley Kringas GLYN KERSLAKE – Joe Josephson NOAH MILLER – Frank Junior TOMMY RODGER – Frank Junior JOSEPH WEST – Frank Junior CLARE FOSTER – Beth BOB HARMS – Swing ELANA MARTIN – Swing CREATIVES Based on the original play by GEORGE S KAUFMAN and MOSS HART GEORGE FURTH – Book MARIA FRIEDMAN – Director SOUTRA GILMOUR – Designer TIM JACKSON – Choreographer DAVID HERSET – Lighting Designer GARETH OWEN – Sound Designer RICHARD MAWBEY – Wigs & Hair CATHERINE JAYES – Musical Supervision/Musical Direction JONATHAN TUNICK – Orchestrations JASON CARR – Dance Arrangements

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 News & Press Nice Work receives ten Tony nominations Tuesday, 22 May 2012 NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT has ten Tony Award nominations include Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Joe DiPietro), Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Kelli O'Hara), Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical (Michael McGrath), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Judy Kaye), Best Direction of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Best Choreography (Kathleen Marshall), Best Orchestrations (Bill Elliott), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Martin Pakledinaz), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Brian Ronan). The nine Drama Desk Award nominations include Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Kelli O’Hara), Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Judy Kaye), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael McGrath), Outstanding Director of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Outstanding Choreography (Kathleen Marshall), Outstanding Book of a Musical (Joe DiPietro), Outstanding Costume Design (Martin Pakledinaz), Outstanding Orchestrations (Bill Elliott). The show won two Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Judy Kaye) and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael McGrath). The Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro, stars twotime Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick and four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara. The production is directed and choreographed by three-time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall. The production is playing at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street). In addition to Matthew Broderick as Jimmy Winter and Kelli O’Hara as Billie Bendix, the production also stars Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons as Millicent Winter, Tony Award-winner Judy Kaye as Estonia Dulworth, Tony Award nominee Michael McGrath as Cookie McGee, Tony Award nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson as Eileen Evergreen, Chris Sullivan as Duke Mahoney, Robyn Hurder as Jeannie Muldoon, Stanley Wayne Mathis as Chief Berry and Terry Beaver as Senator Max Evergreen. The cast also features Cameron Adams, Clyde Alves, Kaitlyn Davidson, Jason DePinto, Kimberly Faure, Robert Hartwell, Stephanie Martignetti, Barrett Martin, Michael X. Martin, Adam Perry, Jeffrey Schecter, Jennifer Smith, Joey Sorge, Samantha Sturm, Kristen Beth Williams and Candice Marie Woods. The creative team includes scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski, sound design by Brian Ronan and orchestrations by Bill Elliott. The music supervisor is David Chase and the music director Tom Murray. This new musical features a veritable hit parade of iconic George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin songs as well as some unknown gems in their catalog, and a book by Joe DiPietro. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT follows Billie Bendix (Kelli O'Hara), a bootlegger who meets wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter (Matthew Broderick) on the weekend of his nuptials. Mayhem ensues. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT is produced on Broadway by Scott Landis, Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman Productions, Roy Furman, Standing CO Vation, Candy Spelling, Freddy DeMann, Ronald Frankel, Harold Newman, Jon B. Platt, Raise the Roof 8, Takonkiet Viravan, William Berlind/Ed Burke, Carole L. Haber/Susan Carusi, Buddy and Barbara Freitag/Sanford Robertson, Under the Wire/Jim Herbert, Emanuel Azenberg, The Shubert Organization. Up Up