Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Coronavirus is driving one Broadway’s most prolific producers to drastically slash ticket prices for several big shows. Starting at noon Thursday, March 12, Scott Rudin will reduce tickets to $50 a pop for shows through March 29.
The productions include Broadway newcomers “West Side Story,” director Sam Mendes’ “The Lehman Trilogy” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett, as well as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and long-running Tony-winner “The Book of Mormon,” which premiered in 2011. “These are shows that are playing to fantastically healthy business,” Rudin told the Hollywood Reporter. “My partners and I want the buildings full — even, and especially, during this crisis — and this is the way to ensure
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