SRO Productions develops and produces new works of film, television, and theater, along with revivals of classic plays and musicals. Under Bartlett Sher, J.T. Rogers, and Cambra Overend, SRO aims to make ambitious works with a global perspective that speak to our current moment.
Current Productions
Jacob McNeal (Academy Award® winner Robert Downey Jr.), a great writer who recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature, grapples with his new relationship with Artificial Intelligence and its place in the literary world. He also struggles with his tenuous relationships: with his son, his agent, his ex-lover, and an ambitious journalist. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar and directed by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher, McNeal tackles what may become of our new future, and how it affects the way we handle our present.
Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, Season 2 of the series, filmed on location in Tokyo, takes us deeper into the city’s criminal underworld, as Adelstein comes to realize that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger.
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Fall “so in love” with your leading couple: multi-award-winner Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty, Ridley) and Tony Award–winning Broadway royalty Stephanie J. Block (Into The Woods, The Cher Show) in her West End debut. This dynamite duo head the summer’s hottest cast alongside Olivier nominee Charlie Stemp (Crazy For You, Mary Poppins), Georgina Onuorah (The Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma), Nigel Lindsay (Victoria, Shrek The Musical), Hammed Animashaun (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Black Ops), and Peter Davison (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small).
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Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the recently announced Dolly Parton musical Hello, I’m Dolly set for Broadway in 2026. “How lucky I am to have the great Bartlett Sher direct my Hello, I’m Dolly musical,” Parton said in a statement.
Deadline
Ayad Akhtar’s new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.
The Atlantic
Tokyo Vice season 2 first look reveals new characters, new dangers
Entertainment Weekly
With bases in both New York and London, SRO formalizes the well-established collaborative efforts of Sher, Rogers and Overend: The three worked together on HBO’s film Oslo, while Sher, as resident director at Lincoln Center Theater, directed the original Off Broadway production in 2016 and the Tony-winning Broadway production in 2017.
Deadline
[The] film nonetheless is an engrossing, unfailingly lucid account of a momentous political breakthrough that interrupted a decades-long impasse. Few will be unmoved by its sorrowful timeliness.
Hollywood Reporter
It’s a moment where the hard work of peacemaking that the film dramatizes is in noticeably short supply, but Bartlett Sher, who makes his feature directing debut with “Oslo,” believes that the message of the movie is even more resonant.
Variety
“It is a piece about hope and wonder,” [J.T. Rogers] said. “And I could use a little hope and wonder right now.”
New York Times
“[A] thrilling production…directed with a master’s hand by Bartlett Sher.”
The New York Times
“Hands down the best new play of the season.”
Washington Post