Act Productions Ltd
About Act Productions
Act Productions is a leading theatre producer in the West End and of national and international tours, and is adviser to The Theatre Fund (www.thetheatrefund.co.uk). With a distinguished history since its founding in 1994, Act remains committed to the development and production of theatre with the utmost creative and commercial integrity.
Current and upcoming productions include: Being Shakespeare, starring Simon Callow (Trafalgar Studios); Yes, Prime Minister (2012 National Tour); the Olivier Award-winning Legally Blonde the Musical (Savoy Theatre).
Past shows managed or produced include: Death and the Maiden, starring Thandie Newton (The Harold Pinter Theatre); Being Shakespeare (2011 Trafalgar Studios); Journey’s End directed by David Grindley (2011 UK tour); Flare Path starring Sienna Miller & directed by Trevor Nunn (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Birdsong starring Ben Barnes, directed by Trevor Nunn (Comedy Theatre); Yes, Prime Minister (Chichester Festival Theatre, transferring to the Gielgud Theatre, then to the Apollo Theatre, then back to the Gielgud Theatre); Onassis (Derby, transferring to the Novello); Krapp’s Last Tape, starring Michael Gambon (Duchess); Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford starring Simon Callow (UK tour/Riverside Theatre) the Olivier Award-winning ENRON directed by Rupert Goold (Noel Coward Theatre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre); the Olivier Award-winning Spring Awakening (Novello Theatre); the Tony award-winning Boeing-Boeing directed by Matthew Warchus (Comedy Theatre, Broadway and UK tour); For King and Country (UK tour); Marguerite directed by Jonathan Kent (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); the Tony and Evening Standard award-winning Frost/Nixon starring Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (Gielgud Theatre and Broadway); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); The Dream (Roundhouse, UK, USA and Australian tour); Whipping It Up starring Richard Wilson and Robert Bathurst (New Ambassadors Theatre and UK tour); A Voyage Round My Father by John Mortimer starring Sir Derek Jacobi (Wyndham's Theatre); Sinatra at the London Palladium directed by David Leveaux (London Palladium and UK tour); Edward Scissorhands directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne (Sadler's Wells, UK and Far East tour); the Tony and Evening Standard Award-winning Mary Stuart directed by Phyllida Lloyd (Apollo Theatre); the Olivier and Evening Standard Award-winning Don Carlos starring Sir Derek Jacobi, directed by Michael Grandage (Gielgud Theatre); the Olivier Award-winning Anything Goes directed by Trevor Nunn (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Reduced Shakespeare Company (Criterion Theatre); Singin’ in the Rain starring Adam Cooper (Sadlers Wells); Dirty Blonde (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Price by Arthur Miller (Apollo Theatre and tour); Humble Boy with Simon Russell Beale and Felicity Kendal (Gielgud Theatre, UK tour); Noises Off by Michael Frayn (Piccadilly Theatre and Broadway); Krapp’s Last Tape with John Hurt (New Ambassadors); The Real Thing, winner of three Tony Awards (Albery Theatre and Broadway).
