Queen Elizabeth Comes to Broadway
Mar 11, 2015•4 min•Ep. 167
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Episode description
Helen Mirren won an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie “The Queen.” Now she picks up the famous handbag again in the play The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote “The Queen,” and directed by Stephen Daldry.
The play, originally seen in London's West End, depicts the Queen in her weekly meetings with various prime ministers, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson and David Cameron.
The Audience is on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre through June 28.
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