"At the recent Tony Awards who won the award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the play ""The Audience"" by Peter Morgan?"
"Fellowes, a brother-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales; Janvrin was the ""deputy"" private secretary until 1999. However, the film is accurate in depicting Janvrin as the person who delivered the news of Diana's accident to the Queen at Balmoral during the night. The film's screenwriter Peter Morgan adapted his script for the stage, under a new title, ""The Audience"", with Helen Mirren continuing her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II. The play opened in London and then transferred to the Broadway stage, where Mirren won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film exceeded box-office expectations; with a"
"Vincent Canby in the NY Times, 26 April 1995). Then again in 2002 for August Strindberg's ""Dance of Death"", co-starring with Sir Ian McKellen, their fraught rehearsal period coinciding with the terrorist attacks on New York on 11 September 2001 (as recorded in her ""In the Frame"" autobiography, September 2007). On 7 June 2015‚ Mirren won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play‚ for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in ""The Audience"" which also won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and made her one of the few"
"Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2011, she starred as Violet in """" at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2017, Reid stars as Queen Elizabeth II in the Mirvish Productions presentation of ""The Audience"" at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. The role was originated in the West End and on Broadway by Helen Mirren. She has twice won the Dora Mavor Moore Award, in 1993 for ""Fallen Angels"" and in 1995 for ""Six Degrees of Separation"". She won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (Sterling Award) for her performance in """". In 2006, she was made a Member"
"present day. Three prime ministers are omitted from the play; Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath are not featured. Tony Blair originally did not feature in the play, but was added when the play transferred to Broadway, replacing James Callaghan who was excluded from subsequent productions. Advice regarding the political and historical content of the weekly audiences was provided by Professor Vernon Bogdanor (Emeritus Professor of Government at Oxford University) the former Tutor of David Cameron, Prime Minister from 2010 until 2016. ""The Audience"" is written by British playwright and screenwriter Peter Morgan. Its premiere production opened in"
"would join Helen Mirren on Broadway in ""The Audience"". The play depicts meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and important historical figures. Baker played former Prime Minister John Major. The play opened on March 8, 2015. Baker is a prolific narrator of audiobooks, having narrated a wide range of books, from fiction (""The Grapes of Wrath"", ""The Corrections"") to biographies (""Steve Jobs"") to ""Argo"", the true story of how six Americans were rescued from Iran by the CIA and Hollywood. He garnered the 2002 Audie Award for Abridged Fiction for his reading of ""The Corrections"" by Jonathan Franzen. Baker has also"
"after 525 performances and 11 previews. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast featured James Earl Jones (Troy Maxson), Mary Alice (Rose), Ray Aranha (Jim Bono), Frankie Faison (Gabriel), and Courtney B. Vance (Cory). The production won the Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (James Earl Jones), Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (Mary Alice), and Best Direction of a Play (Lloyd Richards), as well as the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Actor in a Play (Jones), and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Alice). It also"
"experience."" Smith also served as playwright Peter Morgan's consultant on the London and New York productions of The Audience, his award-winning drama about Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers, starring Helen Mirren. Smith's biography of Charles, Prince of Wales, ""Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life,"" was published by Random House on April 4, 2017. In his review for ""The New York Times Book Review"", William Boyd wrote, ""What's remarkable about [Smith's] portrait of Prince Charles is that he emerges as a man not deeply tainted by the complacent values of the world in which he"
"Benedict Campbell as Brown, Kevin Klassen as Blair and Ben Carlson as Cameron. The 'Traviata' model handbag by British designer Launer London received a surge in popularity and was subsequently re-issued by the brand following the use of one as a prop in ""The Audience"" both in the West End and on Broadway. It is the style often used by Queen Elizabeth II. The play is cited in the credits of the fifth episode of season 1, and in the third episode of season 2, of the Netflix series ""The Crown"". In the credits, both episodes are said to have"
"cast featured Kate Nelligan (as Lyssa Dent Hughes), Elizabeth Marvel, Lynne Thigpen (as Judith B. Kaufman), Penny Fuller, and Hal Holbrook. There were also recorded voices of several real-life ""Television/Radio Personalities"" such as Charlie Rose. Lynne Thigpen won the 1997 Tony Award, Best Featured Actress in a Play. A benefit reading of the play took place on May 8, 2017 at the Second Stage Theatre's Tony Kiser Theatre (New York City). Directed by Christine Lahti, the cast featured Keri Russell, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Groff, Victor Garber, Julie White, Raúl Esparza, Zoe Kazan and Quincy Tyler Bernstine. The reading benefited She"
"include ""Death Of A Salesman"" (starring Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter), ""Twelfth Night"" (starring Richard Wilson), ""Hamlet"" (starring David Tennant), ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (starring Judi Dench), ""Love's Labour's Lost"" and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". In 2013, Englishby scored Peter Morgan's ""The Audience"", starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. ""The Audience"", with Mirren, transferred to Broadway in 2015, with Kristin Scott Thomas taking up the role in the West End. In 2014, Englishby wrote the music for David Hare's ""Skylight"", starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, which also transferred to Broadway from the West End in 2015. Other"
"The UK's National Theatre has been a huge success here with their season of live broadcasts under the banner 'NT Live', featuring big name casts such as Helen Mirren, whose recent turn as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience was a sell out everywhere. (This was in partnership with another West End theatre and the NT are keen to help other theatres maximise their potential through live broadcasts). The Globe and the Royal Shakespeare Company are also producing work for live broadcast and recorded exhibition. As digitisation of cinemas matures, the Event Cinema industry is growing. The strongest territory is"
"2015. Helen Mirren reprises her role of Queen Elizabeth II in this production, alongside fellow original cast members Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Elwyn, Richard McCabe and Rufus Wright. A West End revival began at the Apollo Theatre, opening on 5 May 2015, following previews from 21 April 2015, with Dame Kristin Scott Thomas as Queen Elizabeth II. For the 2015 production, the role of James Callaghan was removed to allow them to feature another former prime minister Tony Blair and the script was updated pending a General Election. Following the General Election on 7 May 2015, the scene featuring David Cameron"
"satirical magazine, has given the royal family working-class nicknames, as though they were characters in a soap opera. Queen Elizabeth II's nickname is ""Brenda"". ""The Crown"", a biographical story about the reign of the Queen by Netflix was released globally on November 4, 2016. It is based on an award-winning play, ""The Audience"", and is a biopic drama television series, created and written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix. The show received critical accolade and has won many awards, including that of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the"
"chauffeurs to report on their comings and goings. He is shown being overwhelmed by the chaos of the Suez Crisis and eventually forced out of office by his Conservative Party colleagues, at the urging of the American government. He also appeared in Peter Morgan's stage play ""The Audience"" (2013); in the premiere, he was played by Michael Elwyn). In the 2015 West End revival version, featuring Kristin Scott Thomas as the Queen, Eden is portrayed by Scottish actor David Robb. His scene in the play is a prediction of Eden's audience with the Queen the day before the invasion of"
"Laurence Luckinbill, Robin Strasser, and Susan Browning. The play received four 1978 Tony Award nominations: Tony Award for Best Play; Anita Gillette for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and Cliff Gorman for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Ann Wedgeworth won the 1978 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The play premiered in the West End at the Gielgud Theatre in February 1996, with Tom Conti and Sharon Gless. Gless later recorded a two-disc audiobook of the play with David Dukes for LA TheatreWorks. A portion of the ""Chapter Two"" 1977"
"to a Broadway audition and a role in the 2012 revival of ""Annie"". She had to prepare herself for the role by taking dance lessons and doing vocal training. She was initially the standby for all the orphans, until the original lead left, when she began alternating the title role for a few months, then closing the show as Duffy and understudy to Annie. While still starring in the play, she appeared in the Emmy-winning series ""The Americans"". In 2015, she co-starred with Helen Mirren in ""The Audience"" on Broadway, as young Queen Elizabeth II. She also got a small"
"Magazine"" wrote: ""she's [Sutton Foster] got the full package: girlish gawkiness and Broadway brass, the legs and the lungs. Foster is a big reason the show is just about the cutest thing to hit Broadway since Annie's dimples, with perkily retro songs by Jeanine Tesori and clever staging by director Michael Mayer..."" Foster went on to win the 2002 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her performance. During the run, Foster appeared in concert"
"644 performances. The play has been revived four times on Broadway: The 1995 production starred Cherry Jones as Catherine Sloper, Philip Bosco as Dr. Austin Sloper, Jon Tenney as Morris Townsend, and Frances Sternhagen as Lavinia Penniman and was directed by Gerald Gutierrez. The play won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, with Jones, Sternhagen and director Gerald Gutierrez winning Tonys as well. A Broadway revival began previews in October 2012 at the Walter Kerr Theatre for a limited engagement, with direction by Moisés Kaufman and starring Jessica Chastain, David Strathairn, Dan Stevens, and Judith Ivey. In"
"used in the play. Veronica Hamel, Dick Latessa, Larry Linville, and Alice Playten were among the cast replacements throughout the run. Baranski won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play,and Joseph G. Aulisi was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. A reading was held in September 2013, directed by Kathleen Marshall and starring Martin Short, Matthew Broderick, Andrea Martin and Julie White, with the possibility of a Broadway production. In March 2016, Independent Theatre Pakistan mounted a production in Lahore, Pakistan. In an interview, Simon said: "" 'I was going"
"Leary (Edgar), Maureen Anderman (Carol), Earle Hyman (Oscar), and Irene Worth (Elizabeth). The show starred Irene Worth (who had originated leading roles in Albee plays ""Tiny Alice"" and ""Listening"") and Earle Hyman alongside a youthful cast headed by Broadway debutante Frances Conroy, with costars such as Maureen Anderman, who had appeared in Albee's 1975 play ""Seascape"" and the 1976 revival of his ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"".), Tony Musante, and Celia Weston. The play received Tony Award nominations for Anderman and Hyman, as Featured Actress and Actor. It was produced at the Seattle Repertory Theatre from January 11 to February"
"In April 2015 he played David Cameron once again in a new production of Peter Morgan's play ""The Audience"", alongside Kristin Scott Thomas as Queen Elizabeth II, directed by Stephen Daldry. In this production at The Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue, Dexter also played former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Dexter was cast as SS Commander 'Dietrich' in the WWII drama ""The Exception"" directed by David Leveaux, which had special screenings at the Toronto and Tribeca film festivals (September 2016 & April 2017), ahead of its general release in June 2017. Mark Dexter Mark Lee Dexter (born 21 April 1973) is an English"
"which was based on a Sarah Waters novel. She returned to the stage in February 2013 as Lady Macbeth, alongside James McAvoy in the title role, in ""Macbeth"" at the Trafalgar Studios. In 2015, Foy played the English queen Anne Boleyn in the six-part drama serial, ""Wolf Hall"". Foy's performance as Boleyn was met with critical praise, and compared to Geneviève Bujold's iconic performance in ""Anne of the Thousand Days"". Foy would go on to be nominated for the 2016 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. In 2016, Foy began portraying the young Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's"
"the television production of ""Brideshead Revisited"". She received an Emmy and British Academy Television Awards nomination for her work. Quick has also appeared in many theatre, film and television productions. Her stage work has included roles in Shakespeare's ""Troilus and Cressida"" to Brecht's ""The Threepenny Opera"". In 2009, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in ""How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilla?"", an episode of the television documentary drama ""The Queen"". Quick had played the same character as a younger woman in Alan Bennett's play, ""A Question of Attribution"". She said of how she prepared for the television role: I"
"and is taken from the acclamation at the Coronation Service. The first act contrasts the personalities of the two monarchs, as they engage in a battle of wiles. Elizabeth is portrayed as a woman who has given up on love and family in order to maintain a firm grasp on power, while Mary is portrayed as a reckless, impulsive woman ready to risk power for love. The second act concentrates on Mary's term as a prisoner of Elizabeth, during which time she reflected on her own pending execution. Eileen Atkins played Elizabeth in the play's British and American debuts. Bolt's"
"to Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee... Intensely moving, skillfully crafted piece."" ""The Daily Express"", ""The Evening Standard"", ""The Guardian"", ""The Times"", ""Time Out"", ""Metro"", ""Radio 4"" and ""The Sunday Times"" also reviewed it very positively. In late 2009, the play was named at no. 9 in The Times Top Twenty Plays of the Decade. It also received three Olivier Award nominations (one in 2008, before the transfer, then nods for Best New Play and Best Actress in a Play in 2009). That Face That Face is a two-act play written by Polly Stenham. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre"
"widely acclaimed production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, described by Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph as – “A brilliant play, brilliantly served.”. Michael Buffong, Ray Fearon and Jenny Jules all won MEN Awards. The cast were: – A second revival ran on Broadway from April 3, 2014, to June 15, 2014, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The play won three 2014 Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Sophie Okonedo) and Best Direction of a Play (Kenny Leon). On 31 January 2016 the BBC broadcast"
"play in 1994) as The Angel. In February 2018, the 2017 Royal National Theatre production transferred to Broadway for an 18-week engagement at the Neil Simon Theatre. The majority of the London cast returned, with Lee Pace replacing Tovey as Joe, and Beth Malone playing the Angel at certain performances. Previews began on February 23, 2018 with opening night on March 25. The production won for Best Revival of a Play at that year's Tony Awards, with Garfield and Lane winning for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play and Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a"
"March 5, 2012 to April 15, 2012. The cast starred Jane Alexander (Elizabeth), Michael Hayden (Sam), Laila Robins (Jo), Peter Francis James (Oscar), and Catherine Curtain (Lucinda). The production received nominations for the 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play; 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play, Laila Robins; and 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor, Peter Francis James and Outstanding Revival. Laila Robins won the 2012 Richard Seff Award. The London premiere took place on March 6, 2007 (previews) at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, directed"
"Supporting Actor (Tom Murphy); Best Actress (Marie Mullen); Best Supporting Actress (Anna Manahan); and Best Director (Garry Hynes), the first female recipient of a Tony Award for directing a play. The play was produced in Australia in 1998 and again in 1999. The 1999 production was a tour by the Royal Court Theatre Company, appearing at the Adelaide Festival Centre (May – June 1999) and Wharf 1 (July 1999) and directed by Garry Hynes. The production returned to Ireland in 2000 as part of a final national tour. The play was revived in July 2010 at the Young Vic Theatre"
"second series won the Royal Television Society Scotland award for Comedy. In 2016, Forsyth wrote two one-off Playhouses for Sky. Elizabeth, ""Michael & Marlon"" was based on the apocryphal story that on 9/11, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson hired a rental car and drove from New York to Ohio. The Playhouse was shot in late 2015, starring Brian Cox, Elizabeth Taylor, Joseph Fiennes. It also featured Carrie Fisher in one of her final roles. Before the planned 2017 transmission of the show adverse reaction to the casting of Fiennes as Jackson, particularly from Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson, saw"
"Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Laurie Metcalf), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashād), Best Direction of a Play (Sam Gold) and Best Costume Design of a Play (David Zinn). Metcalf won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. A Doll's House, Part 2 A Doll's House, Part 2 is a 2017 play written by Lucas Hnath. The play premiered at the South Coast Repertory, in April 2017, before transferring to Broadway at"
"in ""A Matter of Life and Death"" at the National Theatre. In 2003 she played Marie in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of ""Beauty and the Beast"" by Laurence Boswell. She has performed many shows at the Stephen Joseph Theatre with Alan Ayckbourn, including ""The Boy Who Fell Into a Book"", in which she originated the role of the Queen in 1998. In 2002, Atkinson was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ""Eden End"" as Lillian, by the Barclays Theatre Awards, an award recognising regional British theatre. Dorothy Atkinson Dorothy Caroline Atkinson (born 1966) is an English"
"drama about the power-sharing deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that was struck in the Granita restaurant in London in 1994. In 2006, Morgan received his Academy Award-nomination for ""The Deal""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s follow-up, ""The Queen"", that showed how the death of Princess Diana impacted Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Royal Family. His work on the film eventually awarded him a Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press, and Helen Mirren won numerous awards for playing the title role. 2006 also saw the release of ""The Last King of Scotland"", the screenplay of which Morgan adapted with Jeremy Brock. In"