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Frost/Nixon
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Written by	Peter Morgan
Characters	David Frost Richard Nixon
Date premiered	2006
Place premiered	Donmar Warehouse, London
Original language	English
Subject	The Frost/Nixon interviews
Genre	Drama
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Frost/Nixon is a play by the British screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan. Its subject is the series of televised Frost/Nixon Interviews that former US President Richard Nixon granted David Frost in 1977 and that ended with a tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

Performance history

The play premiered at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London in August 2006. Directed by Michael Grandage, and starring Michael Sheen as the talk-show host and Frank Langella as the former president, Frost/Nixon received enthusiastic reviews in the British press. It then played at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End, also starring Langella and Sheen as Nixon and Frost.

On March 31, 2007, the play began previews on Broadway. It officially opened as a limited engagement at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on April 22, 2007 and closed on August 19, 2007, after 137 performances. The cast included Langella, Sheen, Rene Auberjonois (John Birt), Shira Gregory (Evonne Goolagong), Corey Johnson (Jack Brennan), Stephen Kunken (James Reston Jr.), Stephen Rowe (Swifty Lazar/Mike Wallace), Triney Sandoval (Manolo Sanchez), Armand Schultz (Bob Zelnick) and Sonya Walger (Caroline Cushing).

Awards and nominations

Tony Awards

• Best Play (Peter Morgan) (nominated)
• Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Frank Langella) Winner
• Best Direction of a Play (Michael Grandage) (nominated)

Drama Desk Awards

• Outstanding New Play (Peter Morgan) (nominated)
• Outstanding Actor in a Play (Frank Langella) Winner
• Outstanding Director of a Play (Michael Grandage) (nominated)
• Outstanding Music (Adam Cork) (nominated)

Drama League Awards

• Distinguished Production of a Play (nominated)
• Distinguished Performance (Stephen Kunken) (nominated)
• Distinguished Performance (Michael Sheen) (nominated)

Outer Critics Circle Award

• Outstanding Broadway Play (nominated)
• Outstanding Actor in a Play (Frank Langella) Winner
• Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Stephen Kunken) (nominated)
• Outstanding Direction of a Play (Michael Grandage) (nominated)
• Outstanding Lighting Design (Neil Austin) (nominated)

Feature film

Ron Howard directed a film adaptation of the play.^[1] The film was produced by Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Films for Universal Pictures; shooting began on August 27, 2007.^[2] Langella and Sheen reprised their roles for the film.

References

External links

• Official sites:
  • The Original Interviews Website
  • London production
• Frost/Nixon at the Internet Broadway Database
• Michael Billington, "Frost/Nixon", The Guardian,(London) 22 August 2006
• Paul Taylor, "Frost/Nixon, Donmar Warehouse, London: Closing shots convey the drama of a TV classic", The Independent (London), 22 August 2006
• Charles Spencer, "Brief but gripping encounters", The Telegraph (London), 23 August 2006
• Benedict Nightingale, "Frost/Nixon", The Times Online (London), 22 August 2006
• Ben Brantley, "When David Faced a Wounded Goliath", The New York Times, 23 April 2007 (Broadway production)
• H. Stewart, "Frost/Nixon", The Blog Apple, 13 June 2007 (Broadway Production)