Robert Fox (producer) production of "The Boy from Oz" starring Hugh Jackman which also recently finished a record-breaking tour of arenas in Australia; and "The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh starring Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum. Fox is currently co-producing two new plays: on Broadway, "The Vertical Hour" by David Hare starring Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy, and in the West End, "Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen at the Gielgud Theatre. Fox executive-produced the film of "Closer" (Columbia TriStar) directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. Before that he produced "The
Michael Sheen Inspector". "The Times" wrote of "a scathingly brilliant and inventive performance" while "Variety" noted that the actor "adds comic finesse to his apparently ceaseless repertoire". "The Evening Standard", while conceding that the performance was "technically brilliant", expressed bemusement as to why "one of the most mercurial and inspiring actors we have seems set on impersonating Rik Mayall throughout". Also that year, he took part in the Old Vic's "24 Hour Play", in which "The Telegraph" felt he "dazzled". In 2005 film work, Sheen starred in "Dead Long Enough", a small-budget Welsh/Irish film, with his longtime friend, Jason Hughes. In addition,