Billy Elliot the Forum

AirplaneGuy2013 wrote:A "fan girl" was at a recent show and Daldry was in attendance she asked him if Billy was coming back and to my shock he replied "I'm working very hard on that." This is the first I have heard Stephen speaking directly to the question. Very cool!

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Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry has attacked the “incredible indifference” of local politicians after Camden council approved a “grotesque” office development.

The film and theatre veteran — best known for his work on Billy Elliot and The Crown — said residents in a quiet courtyard of Victorian social housing near King’s Cross were left feeling “powerless and humiliated” when the scheme was given consent last week.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/f ... 85966.html

Stephen is in early talks to direct a Star Wars standalone movie centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... ks-1030505

Stephen Daldry's latest production is getting rave (5*) reviews. Until Jan. 9th:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... ic/548909/

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 17066.html

Acclaimed British film director and producer Stephen Daldry is to be awarded an honorary degree from the University of Essex this summer.

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2 ... -of-essex/

https://deadline.com/2018/09/the-crown- ... 202466364/

The British director also has three Oscar nominations for Billy Elliot, The Hours, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

It comes after he was beaten last year by The Handmaid Tale’s Reed Morano – a familiar tale for the Netflix drama, which lost out to the Hulu series in a number of key categories.

Following widely-acclaimed, sensation-stirring, and sold-out engagements in London and New York, it's been announced that the West Coast Premiere of the Good Chance Theatre, National Theatre and Young Vic production of THE JUNGLE by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, will take place at San Francisco's Curran this spring.

The production, directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, will be a strictly limited engagement beginning Tuesday March 26, 2019 and will run through Sunday, May 19, 2019.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/T ... e-20190111

.......... and is staged by esteemed director Stephen Daldry ........... busy person ! Saw this production a year or two ago locally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxri0ety0NM

Cast has been announced for the Stephen Daldry directed The Inheritance, per this article by deadline.com

https://deadline.com/2019/08/the-inheri ... 202668699/

Broadway World has a story about Stephen Daldry departing as director of the film adaptation of Wicked:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/S ... n-20201020