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	Nicholas Hytner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicholas Hytner (born May 7, 1956) is an award-winning British theatrical and opera producer and director.
		Hytner was born in Manchester to a Jewish family and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
		Hytner's film version of the very successful The History Boys is expected in 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Hytner (252 words)

	Guardian \| The Guardian profile: Nicholas Hytner
		Nicholas de Jongh, the spectral drama critic of the London Evening Standard, a man who stalked Trevor Nunn throughout his five embattled years as director like the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, rose to shower his successor, Nicholas Hytner, in praise.
		Nowhere is the depth of the revolution Hytner has set in train at the National, which a year ago appeared exhausted after a long defensive war of attrition with the critics, more apparent than in the £10 ticket season, his first big idea: the first of many it appears.
		Hytner, having declared on the day he took the job that he was "a member of all sorts of interesting minorities", is bent on reinventing what a national theatre means.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4761580-113779,00.html (1698 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: Interview with Nicholas Hytner
		Nicholas Hytner could be seen as the Tony Blair of British Theatre.
		Hytner is proud of the project believing that "we got closer to showing why subsidy works and what it can do.
		Hytner recognises that this can't go on and he predicts that this year will not be as good.
	britishtheatreguide.info /otherresources/interviews/NicholasHytner1.htm (901 words)

	CNN.com - Nicholas Hytner: All the business world is a stage - Jun 16, 2005
		Hytner: I thought it was time for the National Theatre to reflect the richness and the diversity and the energy of a whole range -- not just of cultures in London and the rest of the country -- but a whole range of ways of doing theater.
		Hytner: There is something mysteriously magical about being in the same room, however large the room, as other people who are devoting hours of their time to telling you a story, to weaving a spell around you, to sucking you into a new world.
		Hytner: There are plays, which require a kind of forensic patience, which require the kind of minute concentration, which I'm not necessarily good at unless the context is a whole world.
	www.cnn.com /2005/BUSINESS/06/16/boardroom.hytner?section=cnn_latest (3482 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: Interview with Nicholas Hytner (2)
		Hytner is single and, while he emphasises that he does have a life outside the theatre, knows that he works very long hours and cannot really understand how each of these family men managed to give the job the commitment and energy that it demands and also enjoy time with the wife and kids.
		Hytner emphasises that His Dark Materials represents a genre that he is keen to explore and develop in the future.
		Despite much supposed evidence to the contrary, Hytner does not believe that that the tourist trade is that important to his theatre.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /otherresources/interviews/NicholasHytner2.htm (1185 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Is Nicholas Hytner really as good as the hype?
		To understand why Hytner has inspired such elation, you need to look back, not to April 1 2003, when he officially became the artistic director of the National Theatre, but to September 25 2001, when his appointment was first announced.
		Hytner, then, is completely readdressing the question of a national theatre's responsibilities to its wider - its national - community.
		The European directors Hytner wants to introduce to the National are yet to materialise in any striking fashion; as for European repertory, for the moment it is limited to Cyrano and a Marivaux, neither particularly unapproachable.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1174970,00.html (2403 words)

	Pillow Talk - Nicholas Hytner's fluffy Object of My Affection. By David Edelstein
		The film that Nicholas Hytner has directed (from a screenplay by the playwright Wendy Wasserstein) is slick, sweet, and disastrously unmoving--even people who live to cry at the movies will find themselves depressingly dry-eyed.
		Hytner, an Englishman who made his name in theater (his 1994 revival of Carousel at the Lincoln Center had real weight and scope), hasn't figured out how to create intimacy with his characters on-screen or how to direct his actors so they expose themselves in the myriad microscopic ways stage actors can't.
		To demonstrate their growing closeness, Hytner leads the pair through jazzy swing-dance montages, along with scenes in which they hit each other with pillows (a common cinematic sign of a couple's closeness but not necessarily accurate; as an experiment, I hit my wife with a pillow, and she threw me out of the room).
	www.slate.com /id/3250 (779 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Hytner appointment welcomed
		Nicholas Hytner's appointment as artistic director of the Royal National Theatre has been received warmly by the theatre world.
		Nicholas de Jongh, theatre critic of the Evening Standard, was one of those who had predicted his appointment and said he was the candidate best qualified to do the job.
		"But Hytner is, of all the available candidates, the best qualified for the job in terms of his all round experience and the wide range of his theatrical interests.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1562593.stm (482 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Hytner takes National's top job
		Film and theatre director Nicholas Hytner is to be the next director of London's prestigious Royal National Theatre.
		Hytner is currently directing the National Theatre production Mother Clapp's Molly House added that he would endeavour to find the "widest possible audience" for the venue.
		Hytner's approach to theatre will not be seen as a million miles away from that of his predecessor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1562108.stm (678 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| My job is to astonish
		Nicholas Hytner's arrival as director of the National heralds an exciting new era in British theatre.
		It was Nicholas Hytner with his one-man show at the National, announcing plans for his first year as the new director of Britain's flagship theatre.
		And there was Hytner himself - confident, fluent, witty and occasionally waspish, a most welcome contrast to the man he replaces, Trevor Nunn, who produces brilliant work on stage but bores for England whenever he's required to make a public utterance.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/01/29/bthyt29.xml (1300 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| Profile: Nicholas Hytner
		Latest indications are that Hytner, acclaimed for his film of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III in 1994, may not have turned his back on the glamour of cinema.
		The Hytners, an impressive brood of achievers, come from Manchester, where Nicholas was born on 7 May, 1956.
		Hytner's film career was born out of his working relationship with Alan Bennett, nurtured on the stage at the National.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /theatre/story/0,10937,925620,00.html (1468 words)

	Nicholas Hytner
		Nicholas Hytner had an international stage phenomenon with Alan Bennett's play The Madness of King George, starring Nigel Hawthorne as King George III, the British monarch who lost the American colonies.
		As he loses his senses, he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants, who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority, raising the question of who is really in charge.
		Director Nicholas Hytner couches the story in an immediacy often missing from stagings of Mozart's operas.
	www.dvdvan.com /find/Director/DVD/Nicholas%20Hytner/page-1.html (1041 words)

	Nicholas Hytner delays His Dark Materials \| News \| Advocate.com
		Playbill.com reports that out director Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George) has pushed back the opening of the National Theatre's elaborate two-part stage adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy at London's Olivier Theatre because of technical difficulties.
		Hytner canceled two previews for part 1 and has moved part 2's first preview back a night to December 14.
		In a statement to the press, Hytner said, "When I took this on, I thought it was unstageable.
	www.advocate.com /news_detail_ektid10059.asp (158 words)

	London Theatre Guide - Online / News / Nicholas Hytner is the next director of the National Theatre.
		Nicholas Hytner has been named as the next director of the Royal National Theatre.
		Hytner, 45, who is the director of the current National Theatre production Mother Clapp's Molly House, pledges to find the "widest possible audience" for the venue.
		Hytner said: "I'm thrilled by the challenge of leading the National and of working with a company of outstandingly creative people whom I've loved and admired for many years.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/news/sep01/25thsep01nt.htm (534 words)

	Nicholas Hytner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		An esteemed stage director, Hytner first gained prominence in his native England staging operas at the Kent Opera and the English National Opera.
		From 1985 to 1989, he was associate director at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, where he oversaw such productions as "As You Like It" (1985) and "Edward II" (1986).
		In 1989, the Cambridge-educated Hytner became an associate director of the Royal National Theatre where he staged "Ghetto" (1989) and Alan Bennett's adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" (1990)....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/188747 (202 words)

	Nicholas Hytner - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Nicholas Hytner - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Born in Manchester to a Jewish family, he read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and went on to direct such plays as Ghetto, Miss Saigon, Orpheus Descending (a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy), Alan Bennett's The History Boys and Carousel.
		Nicholas Hytner, External links, 1956 births, Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, British film directors, English theatre directors, Jewish film directors and Producers.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nicholas_Hytner (158 words)

	Paging Esther Williams
		In Nicholas Hytner's strangely aquatic version of "Twelfth Night," spectacle and buffoonery take the place of poetry and insight -- his Shakespeare is all wet.
		Nicholas Hytner seems to have directed not Twelfth Night but its subtitle, What You Will.
		Shakespeare having set the action fantastically on the seacoast of Illyria, a country that no longer existed, Hytner decided to go him one better by driving the actors to wading, diving, tumbling into the sundry pools with which the stage is littered.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/3331 (1160 words)

	Hytner, Nicholas -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		By cutting production budgets and attracting more sponsorship, Hytner was able to initiate a season of plays in the largest of the three National auditoriums, the Olivier, for which most seats cost £10...
		The British poet and dramatist Nicholas Rowe was the first to attempt a critical edition of the works of William Shakespeare.
		Charles Dickens' early novel Nicholas Nickleby is the melodramatic tale of the adventures of a young man as he struggles to seek his fortune in Victorian England.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9398609 (733 words)

	TIME Magazine: TIME 100: Nicholas Hytner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		For the real action in London theater these days, you've got to leave the storied West End palaces and venture into a boxy concrete structure on the other side of the Thames, where Nicholas Hytner has brought fresh life to Britain's National Theatre.
		Hytner's mission has been to add more diversity, in both subject matter and style.
		Hytner has cut the price for two-thirds of the seats in the National's largest theater to a rock-bottom £10, attracting crowds.
	time-proxy.yaga.com /time/subscriber/2004/time100/artists/100hytner.html (290 words)

	Nicholas Hytner wins Best Director \| London Theatre Guide
		Hytner directed Alan Bennett’s wryly feisty comic drama about the internal struggles, educational ideals and impromptu affairs bubbling around in a 1980s grammar school in Sheffield.
		Nicholas Hytner took over as Artistic Director of the National in 2003, one highlight in a successful and eclectic directing career which includes dramas in Manchester, operas in Kent and blockbusting films such as The Madness Of George III, The Crucible and The Object Of My Affection.
		Nicholas Hytner’s previous Olivier glory came back in 1993 when he won the Best Director of a Musical Award for Carousel at the National.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/display/cm/contentId/83645 (248 words)

	Knitting Circle Nicholas Hytner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Nicholas Hytner then went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge to read English, and once again joined Steven Pimlot.
		Hytner is at pains to play down the contentious core of the play - gay sex.
		Forecasters are currently laying odds of 2:1 on Hytner becoming the next artistic director of the National Theatre.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/nicholashytner.html (826 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hynter redefines London theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Nicky Henson provides a fine foil as a slick ladies'-man-cum-psychiatrist, and Nicholas Woodeson is equally adroit as an inspector who becomes embroiled in their dilemmas, which will leave you bewitched and bewildered but never bored.
		Hytner tapped dramatist Nicholas Wright for the production, being shown in two three-hour parts at the Olivier Theatre, before it was announced that a film troika based on the novels was being planned by Scholastic Entertainment and New Line Cinema.
		Hytner and Wright don't flinch from the more controversial aspects of Pullman's books, which have been described as opposing Christian theology.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/2004-01-29-london-theater_x.htm (713 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Hytner and his team have put a contemporary angle on a story set in Rome AD 78 in which sets, props and the stage itself are constructed to different dimensions offering alternate perspectives on a static tale.
		A slanting pillar and a sloping corridor allude to the unhinged mind of the scheming Vitellia, the central character, who puts her confidant Sesto on an emotional roller coaster ride as she ensnares him to plot the downfall of Titus.
		The principals use their eyes to communicate to one another as well as the audience and in the imaginatively staged entrances and exits of the ensembles one senses Hytner's choreographic instincts coming to the fore.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005M200 (829 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Center Stage"
		Nicholas Hytner, director of "The Madness of King George," takes a mild-mannered genre picture and turns it into a rare entertainment.
		Hytner and screenwriter Carol Heikkinen dip right into the world not just of young dancers but of young people, with a minimum of condescension.
		You couldn't make a remotely realistic picture about young ballet dancers without addressing the issue of eating disorders, and if Hytner underscores the problem a little too heavily at times, his touch is delicate where it really counts.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/05/16/center_stage (803 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Handel: Xerxes [1988]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Anne Murray's Xerxes is a tyrant in love, who learns the hard way that he can neither play with, nor command, his subjects' affections; her forthright declamatory singing, not least in the famous "Larghetto", conveys both the petulance and the final grandeur of a man undergoing a sentimental education.
		Nicholas Htytner's 1985 production of Handel's Xerxes was a tremendous celebration for the Handel bicentenary and remains in the reperoire for 2005.
		This production by Nicholas Hytner is a clever, nostalgic, funny at times, and a true updating - unlike the Bondy "Don Carlos" - of an opera with a very complicated plot.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Y3OW (942 words)

	The Object of My Affection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		NICHOLAS HYTNER (Director) earned a distinguished reputation as one of Britain's most lauded theatre directors before turning his attentions to motion pictures.
		For the musical theatre, Hytner staged the original production of "Miss Saigon" which has toured internationally and is still running in London and on Broadway.
		Hytner has also directed operas in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Geneva, Munich, Chicago and Moscow.
	www.foxmovies.com /theobjectofmyaffection/nicholas.html (205 words)

	Nicholas Hytner named next director of Royal National Theatre \| News \| Advocate.com
		BBC reports that openly gay theater (Carousel) and film (The Madness of King George, The Object of My Affection) director Nicholas Hytner has been named the next director of London's prestigious Royal National Theatre.
		The 45-year-old Hytner will begin his five-year term in April 2003, when current director Trevor Nunn steps down.
		Hytner, whose stage work has ranged from Shakespeare to Miss Saigon, said, "I'm thrilled by the challenge of leading the National and of working with a company of outstandingly creative people whom I've loved and admired for many years."
	www.advocate.com /news_detail_ektid14814.asp (141 words)

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