Frost/Nixon the award winning play by Peter Morgan will make its Maine premiere at Good Theater beginning October 29 for a run through November 22. Tony Reilly as Richard Nixon leads a cast of ten in this fast paced drama directed by Good Theater's Artistic Director, Brian P. Allen. Performances are at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland, on MunJoy Hill where Good Theater is the professional company in residence. For tickets or more information contact 207-885-5883.
Performance times and ticket prices for Frost/Nixon are Thursdays ($18) and Fridays ($22) at 7:30, Saturdays at 8:00 ($28/$25) and Sundays at 2:00 ($28/$25). There will be two added performances of Frost/Nixon on Wednesday November 4 at 7:30 ($15), and Saturday November 14 at 3:00 ($22).
Frost/Nixon was a hit on Broadway during 2007 following a successful run in London. It was nominated for three Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards including Best Play, Best Director and Best Leading Actor. Frank Langella won both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his performance as Richard Nixon.
Frost/Nixon goes behind the scenes of the now famous interviews. This fascinating play mixes history, conjecture and fiction to tell the story of how the interviews came to be and how history was changed by these interviews. In addition to our two leads, characters include Swifty Lazar (Nixon's agent), Jim Reston, John Birt and Bob Zelnick (Frost's team), Jack Brennan (Nixon's chief of staff), and even tennis star Evonne Goolagong
The Good Theater cast of Frost/Nixon features Jon Robert Stafford, making his Good Theater debut, as David Frost; Craig Bowden, Paul Haley, Brent Askari, April Singley, and Seth Berner , also making their Good Theater debuts; plus Good Theater favorites Michael Kimball, Bob McCormack, and Janis Greim. Jamie Grant designs the lights, Joshua Hurd is the production stage manager, and Adam Gutgsell is the assistant director.
Critics hailed this play when it opened on Broadway: "Structured as a prize fight between two starkly ambitious men in professional crisis, FROST/NIXON makes it clear that the competitor who controls the camera reaps the spoils." -NY Times. "...a thoroughly modern Shakespearean tragedy...Peter Morgan has given us a behind the scenes look at a well-publicized event, and used his imagination to create a riveting entertainment...most notably, the midnight phone call from an inebriated Nixon to Frost that, like a show stopping song in a musical or an outstanding opera aria, has the audience bursting into applause." -CurtainUp. "...ripe entertainment...The cheerily oblivious limey lightweight and the brooding, mortally wounded political animal: Austin Powers vs. Macbeth." -Washington Post. "...nails the political, media and cultural fever of that era..." -AisleSay.com.
Still to come at Good Theater is the annual Broadway/holiday concerts, Broadway at Good Theater, December 3-6; the Maine premiere of the heart-warming musical The Spitfire Grill, January 21-February 14; and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, March 4-28.
