Sonia Friedman

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‘Like swapping a Bentley for a Ferrari’: can the Harry Potter stage show survive being chopped in half?

by The Guardian | Oct 7, 2026 | Culture, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, JK Rowling, John Tiffany, Sonia Friedman, Stage, The Guardian, Theatre, West End | 0 |

After a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work? Our writer swishes her cloak, levitates her luggage – and hops aboard the streamlined Hogwarts Express‘Silencio!” Two dozen...

‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard

The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked togetherTom was my hero from...