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 in the fantasy children's film "Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box". R. Kurt Osenlund of "Slant Magazine" said "the ever-versatile Sheen brings an artful hamminess to his role" but Matt Pais of "RedEye" found him "insufficiently zany" in "a part that Robert Downey Jr. would nail but never accept." His second film role of 2014 was a minor role in the political thriller "Kill the Messenger". Also in 2014, he starred in IFC's six-episode "The Spoils of Babylon", a television parody of classic, sweeping miniseries, in which he played the husband of Kristen Wiig's character. In 2015, Sheen starred opposite