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, again starring Langella and Sheen. 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 and closed on August 19, after 137 performances. The cast included Langella, Sheen,
Remy 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).
TimeLine Theatre Company in
Chicago ran the play from August 21 to October 10, 2010. In regional theatre,
Frost/Nixon made its Ohio premiere at the Rabbit Run Theatre in
Madison, Ohio. The U.S. Rocky Mountain regional premiere was directed and designed by John Thornberry for Longmont Theatre Company in
Longmont, Colorado, and ran from November 4 to 19, 2011. The show received its Philadelphia premiere with New City Stage Company December 5, 2013 to January 4, 2014. The show was a combination of the stage play and the screenplay for
the film Frost/Nixon and received wide acclaim. Dan Olmstead, who portrayed Richard Nixon, received a
Barrymore Award nomination, and Russ Widdall, who portrayed David Frost, received a citation from
Philadelphia Weekly for one of the 2014's most notable performances. ==Awards and nominations==