Christopher Hampton
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Date of Birth:
January 26, 1946 (76)
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Christopher's plays, musicals and translations have won many awards including four Tonys and three Oliviers. Prizes for his screenplays include an Oscar, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year and awards at the Cannes and Venice film festivals. Plays include Appomattox, The Talking Cure, Tales from ...
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Christopher Hampton Biography
Christopher's plays, musicals and translations have won many awards including four Tonys and three Oliviers. Prizes for his screenplays include an Oscar, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year and awards at the Cannes and Venice film festivals. Plays include Appomattox, The Talking Cure, Tales from Hollywood, The Philanthropist, Savages, Total Eclipse; adaptations from novels Youth Without God (Horvath), Embers (Marai), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos); plus translations of plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Moliere, Horvath, Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller. Screenplays include Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement, A Dangerous Method, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed.Christopher Hampton Awards and Nominations
Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Book of a Musical ![]() |
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Christopher Hampton, Sunset Boulevard | ||
Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre ![]() |
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Christopher Hampton, Sunset Boulevard | ||
Olivier Awards - 1991 - BBC Award for the Play of the Year | ||
Christopher HamptonWhite Chameleon | ||
New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1987 - Best Foreign Play ![]() |
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Christopher Hampton, Les Liaisons Dangereuses | ||
Tony Awards - 1987 - Best Play | ||
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Evening Standard Awards - 1983 - Best Comedy ![]() |
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Christopher HamptonTales of Hollywood | ||
Olivier Awards - 1983 - Play of the Year | ||
Christopher HamptonTales From Hollywood | ||
Tony Awards - 1971 - Best Play | ||
Christopher Hampton, The Philanthropist | ||
Evening Standard Awards - 1970 - Best Comedy ![]() |
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Christopher HamptonThe Philanthropist |
Christopher Hampton News

by A.A. Cristi - Jun 23, 2022
LML MUSIC has announced the release of the new album from Broadway vocalist Elizabeth Ward Land – Still Within the Sound of My Voice: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt – on CD and digital and streaming formats on Friday, July 15.

by A.A. Cristi - Jun 9, 2022
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced the nominees for theatrical excellence for 2020 and 2021. This year's awards have been combined due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2022
Two legends in experimental theater – the iconic writer/director Martha Clarke and the Tony Award-winning La MaMa ETC – will collaborate for the first time when La MaMa presents the world premiere of Ms. Clarke’s newest full-length work, GOD’S FOOL.

by Stephi Wild - May 16, 2022
The Orange Tree Theatre today announces the full cast for Pierre Marivaux's The False Servant, translated by Martin Crimp, whose prolific international career began at the Orange Tree Theatre, including the recent hit revival of Dealing with Clair. Before his final season as Artistic Director of the OT, Paul Miller, directs Uzair Bhatti, Will Brown, Julian Moore-Cook, Phoebe Pryce, Lizzy Watts and Silas Wyatt-Barke.

by Michael Major - May 3, 2022
Glenn Close has given a new update on the Sunset Boulevard film adaption, revealing that it is 'getting closer.' Close originated the role of Norma Desmond on Broadway in 1994 before returning to the role in the recent revival.

by Stephi Wild - May 3, 2022
Yasmina Reza's ART is now playing at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale. ART will run through May 15th.

by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2022
Yasmina Reza's comedy “Art” hits the Kelsey Theatre stage April 29 - May 1 on the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor.

by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 13, 2022
Bad behavior has never been so much fun. Foursome Productions presents the first L.A. revival of Yasmina Reza’s scathingly funny, Tony Award®-winning God of Carnage. Peter Allas directs a visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre for a limited three-week run, May 13 through May 29.

by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 7, 2022
How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art? These are just some of the questions that are asked, but not necessarily answered in Yasmina Reza’s award-winning play, ART. ART will open at Empire Stage on April 29th and run through May 15th.

by Stephi Wild - Mar 30, 2022
The greater Binghamton area's only professional, non-profit Equity theatre, Chenango River Theatre, under the direction of new Producing Artistic Director Zach Curtis will open their 2022 season on June 3.
Christopher Hampton Videos

by Stephi Wild - Jan 24, 2022
June and Lurie Walker, the proud new owners of a creaky old gothic house, have a haunting new houseguest – and she’s ravenously hungry. When Beatrice arrives, she burrows deep into their existence and unearths secrets with explosive consequences.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jan 2, 2021
Leicester's Curve theatre is now streaming a virtual version of Sunset Boulevard in Concert.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Apr 12, 2020
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'That this episode of Broadway Rewind features something Toxic, something Royal and something Academic.' We drop by New World Stages for a look at the David Bryan and Joe DePietro musical, The Toxic Avenger. We also visit with two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and the cast of Roundabout's production of The Philanthropist, but we kick it off at the opening night of director Neil Armfield's production of Eugene Ionesco's Exit The King, which starred Academy Award winners Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon, Tony Award winner Andrea Martin and Lauren Ambrose. Geoffrey Rush told Ridge, 'I just phoned my wife and said, 'Darling I just made my Broadway debut and it's a marker. It's not what I aimed for. I had never really, seriously ever thought about it... I used to listen to a lot of Broadway musical theatre back in the mid 60's when I was in high school. Next to the Beatles, I was listening to Angela Lansbury in Mame or Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence or Zero Mostel in Fiddler. I'm pretty well seasoned in that kind of energy, and to be able to bring a weird and wonderful play like Exit the King into that arena, has been just so special.'

by Stage Tube - Feb 17, 2020
Pasadena Playhouse presents The Father, written by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Jessica Kubzansky, February 5 to March 1, 2020.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Oct 16, 2019
Porchlight Music Theatre presents Sunset Boulevard at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics and books by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, Sunset Boulevard stars Hollis Resnik and is directed by Michael Weber, choreographed by Shanna VanDerwerker and music directed by Aaron Benham.

by TV - Opening Night Special - Sep 25, 2019
The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre was the place to be last night as Florian Zeller's new play, The Height of the Storm officially opened. Translated by two-time Tony Award Winner Christopher Hampton (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and directed by Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee Jonathan Kent (Long Day's Journey into Night), the play features Olivier and Tony Award Winner Jonathan Pryce, three-time Olivier Award Winner Eileen Atkins, Lucy Cohu, Amanda Drew, James Hillier and Lisa O'Hare.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Sep 20, 2019
Get a first look at Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of The Height of the Storm, written by Tony Award nominee Florian Zeller (The Father), translated by two-time Tony Award Winner Christopher Hampton (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and directed by Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee Jonathan Kent (Long Day's Journey into Night).

by BroadwayWorld TV - Sep 5, 2019
Two of the greatest actors of their generation come together in one unforgettable story of a shared life, and all of its complexities. The pair, along with the show's creatives, recently met the press, chatting with our own Richard Ridge about the production.

by A.A. Cristi - Mar 22, 2019
Stage West presents the regional premiere of The Father, a Tragic Farce, written by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton

by BroadwayWorld TV - Feb 19, 2019
King Kong has just dropped an all new TV spot! The commercial features footage from the show, including, of course, the iconic puppet.