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23-690: CSC is led by Producing Artistic Director Jill Rafson. John Doyle previously served as Artistic Director from 2016 until 2022. CSC's 199-seat Lynn F. Angelson Theater is the former Abbey Theatre located at 136 East 13th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Village near Union Square, Manhattan , New York City. CSC's productions have been cited repeatedly by the major Off-Broadway theater awards: Obie Award , Drama Desk Award , Outer Critics Circle Award , Drama League Award and 1999 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. Recent productions include: Turgenev 's A Month in

46-678: A 1992 staging of Candide at the Liverpool Everyman His 2004 staging of Stephen Sondheim 's Sweeney Todd moved from the Watermill to the West End of London in 2005 (first to Trafalgar Studios and then the Ambassadors Theatre ). In November 2005 he re-mounted Sweeney on Broadway , with Michael Cerveris playing the "demon barber" and Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett . For this production, he received

69-663: A mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot , based on Agatha Christie 's detective series. In a 1989 episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller , she was cast as a princess. She portrayed a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly and fictional Finnish Princess Anna (with "a voice like a tuba ") in the 1991 screen comedy King Ralph . A year later she appeared in Shining Through alongside her future brother-in-law, Liam Neeson, with both actors playing Nazis . In 1993, Richardson appeared in

92-645: A production of The Visit with actress Chita Rivera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival . It moved to Broadway in 2015. Doyle received his third Tony nomination for his direction of the revival of The Color Purple starring Cynthia Erivo , Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Hudson . The revival was first staged at The Menier Chocolate Factory in London in 2013 before transferring to Broadway in November 2015. The Broadway production won

115-568: A true story about a murderous con artist. In 2007, she played the mother in The Last Mimzy with Timothy Hutton and Chris O'Neil. She also starred in the television drama Wallis & Edward , playing the lead role of Wallis Simpson , lover of Edward, Prince of Wales . In 2009–10, Richardson appeared as Catherine Parr , sixth wife of Henry VIII, in the fourth (and final) season of Showtime 's hit period drama The Tudors . The role reunited her with her former husband Tim Bevan , who

138-515: Is a Scottish stage director of musicals and plays, as well as operas. He served as artistic director at several regional theatres in the United Kingdom , where he staged more than 200 professional productions during his career spanning over 40 years. In 2005, he directed a Broadway revival of the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , in a minimalist production in which the cast served as its own orchestra, for which he won

161-522: The BBC 's Lady Chatterley opposite Sean Bean . In 1996, she played fashion designer Anita Campbell-Green in the Disney live-action remake of the animated 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil . In 1998, in the television drama The Echo , she played Amanda Powell. The next year, she played in the science fiction horror film Event Horizon as Lieutenant Starck, executive officer of

184-541: The Chichester Festival Theatre , with fresh orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick . The piece was dark in its conception and was well received. The Guardian reviewer noted "Doyle's spare approach renders this as a bittersweet, almost Chekhovian experience exploring the nature of identity, the loss of innocence and a society on the brink of change." He directed the musical A Catered Affair , which ran on Broadway from April 17 through July 27, 2008 at

207-598: The Hollywood film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Endless Love (2014), Red Sparrow (2018), The Turning (2020), The Sandman (2022), Little Bone Lodge (2023) and The Gentlemen (2024). Joely Kim Richardson was born in Marylebone , London, to the theatrical Redgrave family , the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson (1928–1991), and

230-653: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1985. Possessing an early ambition to become a professional tennis player, she spent two years at a tennis academy in Florida . Richardson then turned to acting. In 1985, she portrayed, by flashbacks , the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film Wetherby . After a leading role in Peter Greenaway 's cult success Drowning by Numbers (1988), her first major role in front of

253-575: The Tony Award , Drama Desk Award , Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Doyle also staged an actor/musician version of Mack and Mabel starring David Soul and Janie Dee in the West End. For his last production at Watermill, he directed Merrily We Roll Along in March 2008. In June through August 2009 he directed a production of Oklahoma! at

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276-673: The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical . His 2006 Broadway revival of the musical Company won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical . From 2016 to 2022, he served as Artistic Director of the off-Broadway theater Classic Stage Company , located in the East Village in New York City. Doyle was born and raised in Inverness , Scotland . He trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and then

299-1272: The University of Georgia in the United States . He was artistic director of four theatres in England, the Swan Theatre, Worcester (1982-1985), the Everyman in Cheltenham, the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1989-1993) and the Theatre Royal, York (1993-1997). Subsequently he was associate director of the Watermill Theatre , a 216-seat performance space in the English countryside of Berkshire until 2008. In his work he has become known for his unusual approach to musical theatre , often featuring casts who are both actors and musicians, accompanying one another on musical instruments while simultaneously playing roles. This approach started with

322-652: The Walter Kerr Theatre . Also in 2008, Doyle directed the Sondheim/John Weidman musical Road Show Off-Broadway at The Public Theater ; the musical ran from October 28 through December 28, 2008. Doyle directed a production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival for their 2010 season. He also has ventured into the world of opera, directing a production of Kurt Weill 's Rise and Fall of

345-678: The 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace after director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette . In 2003, Richardson took on the role of Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck , based on the complicated lives of two plastic surgeons filled with romance in Miami. Her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, appeared in several episodes, playing her character's mother. In 2005, Richardson starred in Lies My Mother Told Me , based on

368-607: The 2006 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical . For Doyle's next project, he moved to the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park to reinvent Sondheim's Company with a cast led by Raúl Esparza , again with actors who sing, dance and provide their own musical accompaniment (known in England as actor/muso). This production was then produced on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2006 and won

391-822: The City of Mahagonny in Los Angeles in 2007; of Benjamin Britten 's Peter Grimes at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008; and of Gaetano Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor for Houston Grand Opera in the 2010-11 season. Doyle directed the Encores! Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis staged concert A Bed and A Chair at City Center, New York City, from November 13 through 17, 2013. The concert featured Bernadette Peters , Norm Lewis , Jeremy Jordan , Cyrille Aimée, and Elizabeth Parkinson . In 2014, Doyle directed

414-2194: The Country with Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling ; Rodgers & Hammerstein 's Allegro ; Brecht 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle with Christopher Lloyd , and Galileo with F. Murray Abraham ; Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 's Passion with Melissa Errico , Judy Kuhn , and Ryan Silverman; Chekhov 's Ivanov with Ethan Hawke , The Cherry Orchard with Dianne Wiest and John Turturro , Three Sisters with Maggie Gyllenhaal , Jessica Hecht , Juliet Rylance and Peter Sarsgaard , Uncle Vanya with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Denis O'Hare , and Peter Sarsgaard, and The Seagull with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming ; David Ives ' The Heir Apparent , Venus in Fur with Nina Arianda (Broadway transfer 2011/2012, Tony Award nom., Best Play), The School for Lies with Hamish Linklater , and New Jerusalem with Richard Easton ; Unnatural Acts , conceived by Tony Speciale; Anne Carson 's An Oresteia ; and Shakespeare 's Hamlet with Peter Sarsgaard, The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin , A Midsummer Night's Dream with Bebe Neuwirth , and Richard III , Richard II , and Hamlet with Michael Cumpsty . Prominent artists who have worked at Classic Stage Company include F. Murray Abraham , Wes Bentley , Zoe Caldwell , Kathleen Chalfant , Alan Cumming , Peter Dinklage , Mamie Gummer , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Ethan Hawke , Amy Irving , Bill Irwin , Cherry Jones , Ron Leibman , Taylor Mac , Camryn Manheim , Frances McDormand , Kate Mulgrew , Bebe Neuwirth , Cynthia Nixon , Chris Noth , Jim Parsons , Mandy Patinkin , Christina Ricci , Joely Richardson , Amber Chardae Robinson , Juliet Rylance , Ruben Santiago-Hudson , Peter Sarsgaard , Liev Schreiber , Taylor Schilling , Tony Shalhoub , Mira Sorvino , Jean Stapleton , David Strathairn , Michael Stuhlbarg , Jason Sudeikis , John Douglas Thompson , Uma Thurman , Stanley Tucci , and John Turturro . Classic Stage Company has won awards for many of its productions. John Doyle (director) John Doyle (born 1952)

437-675: The Tony awards for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical for Erivo's performance as Celie. Joely Richardson Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is a British actress. She is notable for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck (2003–2010) and Katherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors (2010). Her credits include 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000), Return to Me (2000), Anonymous (2011),

460-733: The age of three in the 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade , directed by her father. Richardson and her sister Natasha's early education began at the independent St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith . At age 14, Richardson moved to boarding school at the independent Harry Hopman Tennis School in Tampa, Florida . In 1983, she graduated from the Thacher School in Ojai, California , then returned to London to study at

483-517: The granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave (1908–1985) and Rachel Kempson , Lady Redgrave (1910–2003). Actress Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) was her sister and actor Liam Neeson is her brother-in-law. She is the aunt of Micheál and Daniel Neeson and the niece of actors Lynn Redgrave (1943–2010) and Corin Redgrave (1939–2010) and cousin of actress Jemma Redgrave , who is five days younger than Richardson. Joely appeared as an extra at

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506-532: The research and rescue ship Lewis and Clark , sent to rescue crew of the long-lost experimental ship Event Horizon . One year later, Richardson appeared opposite Mel Gibson in the film The Patriot , an American film set in the American Revolution . Also in 2000, she appeared opposite Hugh Laurie in Maybe Baby , Ben Elton 's film adaptation of his book Inconceivable . She was cast in

529-418: Was part of the show's production team. Joely joined the cast of TV series Titanic: Blood and Steel in which she played the role of Countess Markievicz . In 2015 she co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the zombie thriller film Maggie . Richardson married film producer Tim Bevan in 1992; they divorced in 2001. The couple had a daughter, actress Daisy Bevan , born in 1992. Richardson

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