Thomas, Michael Frayn, Oliver Stone, Juliette Binoche, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Grant, and Jacqueline Bisset.

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It opens later this month, after being revived as part of the Michael Frayn season at Shefield's Crucible in March.

BBC: Sheridan Smith to star in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

An award for Outstanding Achievement, won last year by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, will also be presented during the ceremony on 12 March.

BBC: Olympic art nominated for South Bank award

The other books on this year's shortlist were Skios by Michael Frayn, England's Lane by Joseph Connolly, Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach, and Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt.

BBC: Howard Jacobson

In addition, Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off - which opened at the Old Vic in December 2011, before transferring to the West End - will tour the UK from March 2013.

BBC: Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones to reunite at Old Vic

Nearly all the playwrights who can fill larger theatres, at least in the West End, are either pensioners (Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett and Harold Pinter) or they are dead.

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