Frost/Nixon

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, is coming to ASU Gammage March 31 – April 5, 2009.

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.

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.

Running Time: 2 hrs., no intermission