Frost/Nixon

by Peter Morgan

Directed by Steven Woolf

September 3–28, 2008

Major Sponsor: Mary Ranken Jordan & Ettie A. Jordan Charitable Foundation

David Frost’s 1977 interviews with Richard Nixon, following the Watergate scandal and the President’s humiliating resignation, drew the largest audience ever for television news. Could this British talk show host, with a playboy reputation and no known political convictions, be the one to elicit the apology the world awaited from the man at the center of one of America’s greatest political scandals? An Olivier, Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee for Best Play.

Steve's Take: Whether you lived through it or learned about it, this chapter in our country's political history, told from a unique point of view, is perhaps even more relevant today as we continue to debate the limits of presidential power.

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Access services at The Rep are sponsored by .

• See excerpts from David Frost's original interviews with Richard Nixon on YouTube.
• Nixon's views on presidential power, an excerpt from a transcript of an interview by David Frost, with questions for discussion at landmarkcases.org.
• Purchase David Frost's book Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews or a DVD of the original interviews at amazon.com.