Academy Award winner Helen Mirren will get in touch with her inner Queen—again—when she returns to the West End stage as Elizabeth II in The Audience. Reuniting with The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan, Mirren stars in the world premiere play at London’s Gielgud Theatre. Stephen Daldry directs the production, which also stars Michael Elwyn, Tony nominee Haydn ...

BAFTA-winning actor Edward Fox will replace injured star Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill in the West End production of The Audience. Hardy recently left the production after suffering a fall and cracked ribs. Written by Peter Morgan and starring Oscar winner Helen Mirren, The Audience plays the Gielgud Theatre through June 15.

Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Audience spans 60 ...

Veteran stage actor Robert Hardy has pulled out of Peter Morgan’s The Audience following an accident in which he fell and cracked his ribs. Hardy’s understudy, David Peart, will play the role of Winston Churchill on a temporary basis until the producers find a permanent replacement. The Audience opens at the West End's Gielgud Theatre on March ...

Six years after scoring an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II, audiences can once again catch Helen Mirren channeling the British monarch on the big screen. Peter Morgan’s West End drama The Audience, starring Oscar Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, will be broadcast in movie theaters across the world through the National Theatre Live, according to The Daily Mail ...

They’re at it again: Oscar winner Helen Mirren and The Queen screenwriter Peter Morgan have reunited for the West End world premiere of The Audience, a play in which Mirren reprises and broadens her role as Queen Elizabeth II. Unlike The Queen, which was set in the wake of Princess Diana’s death, The Audience begins when Winston Churchill ...

Broadway alum Nathaniel Parker will take on the role of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, alongside previously announced star Helen Mirren, in the West End production of The Audience, according to U.K.’s Daily Mail. Directed by Stephen Daldry, the new Peter Morgan drama is scheduled to begin performances February 15, 2013 at the Gielgud Theatre. Opening night is set ...

Tony nominee Haydn Gwynne will take on famed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opposite Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in the upcoming West End play The Audience. Directed by Stephen Daldry, Peter Morgan's play will run February 15, 2013 through June 15 at the Gielgud Theatre. Opening night is scheduled for March 5.

In addition to Gwynne, the ...

Two-time Tony nominee and Oscar winner Helen Mirren will play Queen Elizabeth II in a West End production of Peter Morgan’s new play The Audience. Directed by Stephen Daldry, the drama will play London's Gielgud Theatre beginning February 15, 2013. Opening night is set for March 5 and the production will run through June 15. Further casting will ...

Two-time Tony nominee Helen Mirren will play Elizabeth II in a London reading of Peter Morgan’s new play The Audience, according to the New York Post. No director has been set, although Morgan reportedly hopes Stephen Daldry will helm the reading. Following the reading, The Audience hopes to run in London and transfer to Broadway in spring of 2013 ...