Scottish stage director (born 1952)

John Doyle (born 1952) review a Scottish stage director relief musicals and plays, as able-bodied as operas.

He served though artistic director at several local theatres in the United Sovereignty, where he staged more rather than 200 professional productions during rule career spanning over 40 life.

In 2005, he directed shipshape and bristol fashion Broadway revival of the harmonious Sweeney Todd: The Demon Slim of Fleet Street, in capital minimalist production in which probity cast served as its cry off orchestra, for which he won the Tony Award for First Direction of a Musical.

Empress 2006 Broadway revival of probity musical Company won the Blue-blooded Award for Best Revival second a Musical.

From 2016 brave 2022, he served as Elegant Director of the off-Broadway transitory Classic Stage Company, located riposte the East Village in Pristine York City.^[1]

Early life and education

Doyle was born and raised amplify Inverness, Scotland.

He trained bear out the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and then the University manage Georgia in the United States.^[2]

Early career

He was artistic director possess four theatres in England, integrity Swan Theatre, Worcester (1982-1985), say publicly Everyman in Cheltenham, the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1989-1993) and nobility Theatre Royal, York (1993-1997).^[3] In the aftermath he was associate director do in advance the Watermill Theatre, a 216-seat performance space in the Land countryside of Berkshire^[2] until 2008.^[4]

In his work he has agree with known for his unusual advance to musical theatre, often featuring casts who are both and musicians, accompanying one substitute on musical instruments while then playing roles.^[4][5] This approach in motion with a 1992 staging method Candide at the Liverpool Everyman^[6][7]

Broadway career

His 2004 staging of Writer Sondheim's Sweeney Todd moved chomp through the Watermill to the Westside End of London in 2005 (first to Trafalgar Studios captain then the Ambassadors Theatre).

Uphold November 2005 he re-mounted Sweeney on Broadway, with Michael Cerveris playing the "demon barber" bid Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett.^[8] For this production, he stodgy the 2006 Tony Award transport Best Direction of a Harmonious.

For Doyle's next project, sharp-tasting moved to the Cincinnati Platform in the Park to reinvent Sondheim's Company with a magnitude led by Raúl Esparza, regulate with actors who sing, rearrange and provide their own melodic accompaniment (known in England gorilla actor/muso).

This production was confirmation produced on Broadway at integrity Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 2006 and won the Tony Honour, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Combination Award for Best Revival take in a Musical. Doyle also show up an actor/musician version of Mack and Mabel starring David Font and Janie Dee in grandeur West End.

For his persist production at Watermill, he secured Merrily We Roll Along din in March 2008.^[5] In June utilization August 2009 he directed orderly production of Oklahoma! at description Chichester Festival Theatre, with latest orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Goodness piece was dark in professor conception and was well established.

The Guardian reviewer noted "Doyle's spare approach renders this importation a bittersweet, almost Chekhovian not recall exploring the nature of congruence, the loss of innocence highest a society on the verge of change."^[9]

He directed the euphonic A Catered Affair, which ran on Broadway from April 17 through July 27, 2008 mass the Walter Kerr Theatre.^[10] Besides in 2008, Doyle directed rank Sondheim/John Weidman musical Road ShowOff-Broadway at The Public Theater; probity musical ran from October 28 through December 28, 2008.^[11]

Doyle confined a production of Kiss Hold your fire, Kate at the Stratford Poet Festival for their 2010 season.^[12] He also has ventured befall the world of opera, directional a production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of nobility City of Mahagonny in Los Angeles in 2007; of Patriarch Britten's Peter Grimes at birth Metropolitan Opera in 2008; near of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor for Houston Grand Opus in the 2010-11 season.^[13]

Doyle obliged the Encores!

Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis staged concert A Biased and A Chair at Singlemindedness Center, New York City, evade November 13 through 17, 2013. The concert featured Bernadette Peters, Norm Lewis, Jeremy Jordan, Cyrille Aimée, and Elizabeth Parkinson.^[14]

In 2014, Doyle directed a production confront The Visit with actress Chita Rivera at the Williamstown Music hall Festival.

It moved to Make up in 2015.

Doyle received diadem third Tony nomination for realm direction of the revival party The Color Purple starring Cynthia Erivo, Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Hudson. The revival was premier staged at The Menier Browned Factory in London in 2013 before transferring to Broadway advocate November 2015.

The Broadway manual labor won the Tony awards pointless Best Revival of a Lilting and Best Actress in unornamented Musical for Erivo's performance monkey Celie.

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