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Jonathan Church, CBE (born 1967) is a British stage director. Church was the artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (2001–2005) and since 2006 has been the artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre. In August 2015, Sydney Theatre Company announced that he would be succeeding Andrew Upton as their artistic director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=STC APPOINTS JONATHAN CHURCH AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR )〕 ==Career== At Birmingham, he directed the first revival of the David Hare Trilogy (''Absence of War'', ''Murmuring Judges'' and ''Racing Demon'').〔(Modern Classics ) ''The Guardian'', 23 April 2003〕 Productions he has directed at Chichester include ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'',〔(Return of a stage legend ) ''The Evening Standard'', 24 July 2006〕 the first major revival since its RSC premiere in 1980, and ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui''.〔(The resistible rise of Arturo Ui ) ''The Guardian'', 12 July 2012〕〔(The resistible rise of Arturo Ui, Minerva Studio, Chichester, review ) ''The Telegraph'', 12 July 2012〕 ''The Telegraph'' has credited Church with reviving the fortunes of both the Salisbury Playhouse and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.〔(Charles Spencer: Lady Macbeth at Chichester ) ''The Telegraph'', 23 February 2009〕 In 2006, Church moved to Chichester, and was praised for saving the Chichester Festival Theatre from closure by almost doubling the audience numbers and overseeing a £22m redevelopment to the theatre.〔 A number of Chichester productions during his tenure, including ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''South Downs'', have subsequently gone on to the West End.〔(The irresistible rise of Jonathan Church ) ''The Independent'', 1 July 2012〕 Church's production of ''Singin' in the Rain'' opened at the Palace Theatre in 2012.〔(Singin' in the Rain comes to London's West End: we'll make a splash ) ''The Telegraph'', 15 February 2012〕 Church and the executive director of CFT, Alan Finch, both announced in March 2015 that they would stand down from their positions, at the end of September 2016, in order to make way for "new ideas and new energies". In June 2015, they were received into the Order of the British Empire as a Commander, for their services to the Festival Theatre. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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