'Frost/Nixon' National Tour to Star Stacy Keach

Frost/Nixon, the Tony Award winning new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Queen and The Last King of Scotland, will embark on a national tour with award winning actor Stacy Keach, portraying the role of President Richard Nixon. The role of David Frost has not yet been cast.  Michael Grandage, who directed the original London and Broadway productions, will direct the tour.  The tour will hit the road in the fall of 2008 with plans to play America's leading theater cities.

"How was it that a famous British talk-show host, with a playboy reputation, was the one to elicit the apology that the rest of the world was waiting to hear from a former U.S. President? This fast-paced new play takes audiences into the minds of Richard Nixon and David Frost and 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," describe press notes.

Frost/Nixon debuted in a sold-out run at London's Donmar Warehouse before transferring to the West End, winning a 2007 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.

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 Oscar nomination for his screenplay. His other current film work includes The Last King of Scotland, which earned Morgan a British Independent Film Award nomination. Other films include Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, and the recently-released The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson. His film Longford is currently playing on HBO.

Designs for Frost/Nixon are by Christopher Oram, with lighting by Neil Austin, and the music & sound score by Adam Cork. Video design is by Jon Driscoll.

Stacy Keach (President Richard Nixon) has devoted much of his theatrical career to the classics, playing the title roles in Richard III and Macbeth for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, Coriolanus, Cyrano de Bergerac, Peer Gynt, Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV, Edmund in King Lear and the title role in three different productions of Hamlet.  Most recently he played the title role in the Goodman Theatre's critically acclaimed modern adaptation of King Lear.  He rose to prominence in 1966 in the off-Broadway political satire MacBird, which won him the first of three Obie Awards.  He made his Broadway debut in Arthur Kopit's Indians in 1969, winning a best actor Tony nomination.  Other Broadway credits include Deathtrap, Solitary Confinement and The Kentucky Cycle, for which he won a Helen Hayes Award.

The tour route and full casting information will be announced shortly.

Stacy Keach (photo by Thomas Duffe)