Sample Press Release
This press release furnished local news media outlets with exciting and informative copy to promote a National Theater Live Broadcast of The Audience at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, VT.
by Jack DesBois
375 words.
by Jack DesBois
375 words.
For immediate release
June 12, 2015
HELEN MIRREN: A TONY AWARD-WINNING QUEEN ELIZABETH II
NATIONAL THEATER OF GREAT BRITAIN BROADCAST OF THE AUDIENCE
ON SCREEN AT TOWN HALL THEATER
Helen Mirren just won the Tony for Best Actress on Sunday, confirming her title as Queen of Broadway.
Her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II, in the National Theater production of Peter Morgan’s The Audience, will be broadcast at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on June 25.
This production, currently sold-out on Broadway, captures Queen Elizabeth’s legendary reign in private meetings with Prime Ministers from 1951 to the present. With Mirren at the helm, and in the capable hands of director Stephen Daldry, The Audience is “a coup de theater of the old school,” according to the Chicago Tribune.
In bringing her Queen to the stage – after winning an Academy Award in 2006 for her portrayal of the same frosty monarch in The Queen and playing the title role in the 2005 mini-series Elizabeth I – Mirren has proven that her magic is no trick. Her performance is “astonishing,” according to one reporter, “by turns prickly and chummy, regal and regular, insecure and temperamental.”
With the help of designer Bob Crowley’s dazzling costumes, Mirren’s transformations from age to age are fantastic. As the New York Post put it, “how can you not see something that happens right before your eyes?!” But miracles of appearance aside, 70-year-old Mirren’s subtle command of the figure at any age – “from the 69-year-old comforting an insecure John Major (Dylan Baker) to the 25-year-old heir apparent nervously schooled by Winston Churchill (Dakin Matthews)” – is complete.
The Audience will be broadcast on Thursday, June 25, at 7 pm at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. Tickets are $17, with a special $10 ticket for students. Tickets may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802 382-9222, at the THT Box Office (Mon-Sun, noon-5 pm) and at the door, if available.
PHOTO CAPTION: Helen Mirren reprises her iconic Queen Elizabeth II in the National Theater broadcast of The Audience at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. Thursday, June 25, at 7 pm. Tickets are $17, with a special $10 ticket for students. Tickets may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802 382-9222, at the THT Box Office (Mon-Sun, noon-5 pm) and at the door, if available.
June 12, 2015
HELEN MIRREN: A TONY AWARD-WINNING QUEEN ELIZABETH II
NATIONAL THEATER OF GREAT BRITAIN BROADCAST OF THE AUDIENCE
ON SCREEN AT TOWN HALL THEATER
Helen Mirren just won the Tony for Best Actress on Sunday, confirming her title as Queen of Broadway.
Her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II, in the National Theater production of Peter Morgan’s The Audience, will be broadcast at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on June 25.
This production, currently sold-out on Broadway, captures Queen Elizabeth’s legendary reign in private meetings with Prime Ministers from 1951 to the present. With Mirren at the helm, and in the capable hands of director Stephen Daldry, The Audience is “a coup de theater of the old school,” according to the Chicago Tribune.
In bringing her Queen to the stage – after winning an Academy Award in 2006 for her portrayal of the same frosty monarch in The Queen and playing the title role in the 2005 mini-series Elizabeth I – Mirren has proven that her magic is no trick. Her performance is “astonishing,” according to one reporter, “by turns prickly and chummy, regal and regular, insecure and temperamental.”
With the help of designer Bob Crowley’s dazzling costumes, Mirren’s transformations from age to age are fantastic. As the New York Post put it, “how can you not see something that happens right before your eyes?!” But miracles of appearance aside, 70-year-old Mirren’s subtle command of the figure at any age – “from the 69-year-old comforting an insecure John Major (Dylan Baker) to the 25-year-old heir apparent nervously schooled by Winston Churchill (Dakin Matthews)” – is complete.
The Audience will be broadcast on Thursday, June 25, at 7 pm at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. Tickets are $17, with a special $10 ticket for students. Tickets may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802 382-9222, at the THT Box Office (Mon-Sun, noon-5 pm) and at the door, if available.
PHOTO CAPTION: Helen Mirren reprises her iconic Queen Elizabeth II in the National Theater broadcast of The Audience at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. Thursday, June 25, at 7 pm. Tickets are $17, with a special $10 ticket for students. Tickets may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802 382-9222, at the THT Box Office (Mon-Sun, noon-5 pm) and at the door, if available.