Frost/Nixon
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Average of 4 stars from 5 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 22, 2007
Closed Aug 19, 2007

Playing at
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

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Running Time:
1hr. 55min.

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

David Frost's interviews with Richard Nixon, following the Watergate scandal and the President's humiliating resignation, drew the largest audience ever for a news interview. Could this British talk-show host, with no known political convictions and a playboy reputation, be the one to elicit an apology from the man who committed one of the biggest felonies in American political history?

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
242 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The no-frills title could lead anyone to assume that Frost/Nixon is strictly going to showcase top-billed Frank Langella and Michael Sheen, as former president Richard Nixon and talk show host David Frost, doing little but recreating excerpts from the famous 1977 Frost-Nixon television interviews, in which the disgraced President finally admitted his complicity in the Watergate cover-up that led to his resignation. Impersonations are certainly all I expected when I saw the play at London's Donmar Warehouse some months ago. No way was I prepared for a Shakespearean work about the repercussions of hunger for lost power. But that -- not to mention the best play of the year -- is what I got.

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Apr 23, 2007