Sonia Friedman In Negotiations To Produce Stage Versions of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, And GHOSTS With Kim Cattrall

British Theater Producer Sonia Friedman recently spoke with The New York Times about her current and upcoming projects.

Friedman is currently producing eight shows including two West End hits rumored for transfer to Broadway- La Cage aux Folles and Arcadia.

Along with these works, Friedman is negotiating twenty-two more projects, including a stage version of the film 'Shakespeare In Love,' and Ibsen's 'Ghosts,' starring Kim Cattrall, who has been seen in films like The Incredible Hulk, Ticket to Heaven, Tribute, Police Academy, Mannequin, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Kim Cattrall was also active in theatre and did stints for Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Anton Chekov's Three Sisters. But her major success to date was on television, where she landed on the role of Samantha Jones in Sex and the City. 

Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic comedy film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. The film won seven Academy Awards including Bes Picture, Best Actress (for Gwyneth Paltrow) and Best Supporting Acretss (Judi Dench.)The film centres around the forbidden love of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), the daughter of a wealthy merchant.

Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen written in 1881 and first staged in 1882. The show created a sensation due to its highly controversial content which includes adultery and euthanasia.

The Times reports that despite challenges created by the economy, Sonia Friedman continues to push forward. As the recipient of two Tony Awards (for Boeing-Boeing and The Norman Conquests) she is "well known in the theater here and on Broadway for having a dizzying number of projects going at once, the recession be damned."

To read more of the article visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/theater/13sonia.html