Frost/Nixon (play) notable performances. An all-female cast "Frost/Nixon" opened January 18, 2018, at Strawberry Theatre Workshop in Seattle. Amy Thone played Nixon with Alexandra Tavares as Frost. The Strawshop production was directed by Greg Carter, and received TPS Gregory Award nominations for Outstanding Sound Design, Outstanding Acting Ensemble, Outstanding Production, as well as individual performer nominations for Thone and Sarah Harlett, who played Jim Reston. Ron Howard directed a film adaptation of the play. The film was produced by Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Films for Universal Pictures. Shooting began on August 27, 2007. Langella and Sheen reprised their roles for the
Michael Sheen of 2011 was a supporting role in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris". Allen noted that "Michael had to do the pseudo-intellectual, the genuine intellectual, the pedant, and he came in and nailed it from the start". Sheen enjoyed playing "someone who's just absolutely got no sense that he's overstepping the mark or that he's being a bore." The film opened the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and became Allen's highest-grossing film to date. Also in 2011, Sheen starred in "Beautiful Boy", an independent drama focusing on the aftermath of a school shooting, voiced the enigmatic and mysterious villain House in the