FROST/NIXON Comes to Charlotte February 10-15

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
February 2, 2009 Liz Bertrand/704.348.5787/lbertrand@ncbpac.org
Lauren Platts/704.348.5803/lplatts@ncbpac.org

THE NATIONAL TOUR OF
THE DONMAR WAREHOUSE PRODUCTION
FROST/NIXON
STARRING STACY KEACH
COMES TO CHARLOTTE, FEB. 10 - 15
Charlotte, NC – FROST/NIXON, the 2007 Tony Award®-nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, comes to the Belk Theater for a limited one week run, Feb. 10 – 15. Tickets start at $20 and are available at BlumenthalCenter.org, by phone at 704-372-1000 or in person at the Belk Theater box office (130 N. Tryon St.). The production is part of the Stanford Broadway Lights Series.
Performance Schedule: Tues, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m.; Wed, Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m.; Thurs, Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.; Fri, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m.; Sat, Feb. 14 at 2 & 8 p.m.; Sun, Feb. 15 at 2 & 7:30 p.m.
Celebrated stage and screen actor Stacy Keach takes on the role of President Richard Nixon and is joined by Alan Cox as David Frost. Artistic Director of the Donmar, Michael Grandage, who directed the original London and Broadway productions, directs the tour with associate director Seth Sklar-Heyn.
How was it that a famous British talk-show host with a playboy reputation was the one to elicit the apology the world was waiting to hear from former U.S. president Richard Nixon? This fast-paced new play shows the determination, conviction and lengths that these two men, and their closest confidantes, went to as they took the stage in one of the most hard-fought political interviews in history.
FROST/NIXON debuted in a sold-out run at London’s Donmar Warehouse before transferring to the West End, winning a 2006 Evening Standard Award. The show opened on Broadway in April 2007, and played a limited five-month engagement where it garnered Tony nominations for Best Play and Best Direction.
Critics in London and New York raved about the production. “A victory! FROST/NIXON is a nail-biting thriller with the zing of a comedy,” The New York Times enthused. The New York Post exclaimed that it’s “A prize fight you watch with the kind of fascinated delight rare in the theater.” And The Philadelphia Inquirer said “Morgan’s arresting play captures the moment, the era – and the audience. By aiming its stage lights on the two men, FROST/NIXON illuminates history. In the process, we are brighter.”
FROST/NIXON is Peter Morgan’s first stage play and was developed with Matthew Byam Shaw. He received the Best Screenplay Award at the 2006 Venice Film Festival for The Queen starring Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen. The Queen also earned Morgan Golden Globe, New York Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics and British Independent Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. His other film work includes The Last King of Scotland, which earned Morgan a British Independent Film Award nomination. Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, and The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson. His film Longford is currently in rotation on HBO.
Designs for FROST/NIXON are by Christopher Oram, with lighting by Neil Austin, composition and sound designs by Adam Cork and video design is by Jon Driscoll.
The Donmar Warehouse is one of the UK’s leading producing theatres, a subsidized (not-for-profit) company located in London’s Covent Garden. Under the artistic directorship of Michael Grandage the theatre has garnered critical acclaim at home and abroad. The theatre produces at least 6 productions a year and a touring program. Donmar generated productions have received 30 Olivier Awards, 15 Critics’ Circle Awards, 15 Evening Standard Awards, and 13 Tony Awards from 9 Broadway productions.
Donmar generated work in New York includes Cabaret on Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall (1998); Electra starring Zoë Wanamaker at the McCarter Theatre and later on Broadway (1998; Tony Award nomination: Best Play); The Blue Room with Nicole Kidman and Iain Glen (1998); the multi award-winning The Real Thing (Tony Award Best Play Revival) directed by David Leveaux in 2000; True West directed by Matthew Warchus; The Public Theater and Donmar collaboration of Take Me Out (winner of the Tony Award for Best New Play) (2002/2003); Twelfth Night/Uncle Vanya at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2003); and Nine (2003). The Donmar Warehouse production of Mary Stuart featuring Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter opens on Broadway in the Spring of 2009.
Frost/Nixon is produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, Independent Presenters Network (IPN), Broadway Across America, Fox Theatricals, Mary Lu Roffe, LTD and The Donmar Warehouse.
The North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center serves the Carolinas as a leading cultural, entertainment and education provider. For more information, call 704-372-1000 or visit BlumenthalCenter.org. The Center receives operating support from the Arts & Science Council and the North Carolina Arts Council. The Center is also supported through the generous aid of its sponsors, including Presbyterian Hospital, The Official Healthcare Provider; U.S. Airways, Official Airline of Blumenthal Performing Arts Center; and Stanford Financial Group, sponsor of the Stanford Broadway Lights Series.
AT A GLANCE…
WHAT: FROST/NIXON
WHEN: February 10 – 15
WHERE: Belk Theater (130 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte)
COST: Tickets start at $ 20
TIX/MORE INFO: BlumenthalCenter.org; 704-372-1000 or at the performing arts center
box office in the Belk Theater lobby
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