The original cast members of the National Theatre and Broadway production of [*Hadestown*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/24465-hadestown-tickets) will reprise their roles for a limited run in the West End next year. They will take over at the Lyric Theatre from 11 February to 9 March 2025. 

Reeve Carney (*Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark*) will return as Orpheus, André De Shields (*The Full Monty, Warp!, The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehaving*) as Hermes, Amber Gray (*Eureka Day, Here We Are, Natasha,...

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Reeve Carney will return as Orpheus, André De Shields as Hermes, Amber Gray as Persephone, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice, and Patrick Page as Hades.

Initial casting has been set for the return of the Olivier Award-winning play [*Dear England*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43212-dear-england), written by James Graham. The show will return to the National Theatre in London for a 10-week run in March 2025.

Gwilym Lee, who has starred in a number of Shakespeare's plays, as well as the Queen biopic *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), will play the lead role of football manager Gareth Southgate, as he attempts to coach the England men's team to...

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Gwilym Lee will play the lead role of football manager Gareth Southgate, taking over from Joseph Fiennes who received an Olivier nod for his performance.

[*Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/37379-come-alive) has extended performances at the Empress Museum in London until September 2025.

Inspired by the world of *The Greatest Showman*, *Come Alive!* features Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s songs from the 2017 film, with an original storyline, all within a 700-seat Big Top venue. There's also an immersive pre-show experience, with on-site food options, multiple bars, and circus...

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*Come Alive!* features Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s songs from the 2017 film — such as "This is Me" and "Rewrite the Stars" — with an original storyline.

The London transfer of Olivier Award winner James Graham's play [*Punch*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/41716-punch), about the true story of a one-punch crime, has been extended by two weeks at the Young Vic. Performances will now run until 26 April.

Graham (*Best of Enemies, Dear England, This House, Sherwood*) brought Jacob Dunne’s moving memoir *Right From Wrong* to the Nottingham Playhouse stage earlier this year. It tells the story of teenager Jacob Dunne, who punches someone one...

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Graham's play is based on Jacob Dunne’s moving memoir *Right From Wrong* and tells his story of a one-punch crime, which has fatal consequences. 

Nobody puts baby in the corner! First-look artist impressions have been released of new west-London venue Capital Theatre, which will open with a production of [*Dirty Dancing*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43487-dirty-dancing) in October 2025. 

Housed within Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush, the permanent new theatre venue will hold 620 seats, set over 35,000 square feet, with no customer more than nine rows from the performance stage area.

The auditorium has been designed and...

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Check out these images inside west London's new venue Capital Theatre, which opens with a production of *Dirty Dancing* next autumn.

Casting has been announced for [*The Gift*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43087-the-gift), which opens at the Park Theatre in London on 22 January.

Nicholas Burns (*Nathan Barley, Benidorm, Black Mirror*) will take on the lead role of Colin. He is joined by Laura Haddock (*Downton Abbey: A New Era, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Inbetweeners Movie*) as Lisa and Alex Price (*Father Brown*, originated Draco Malfoy in *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* in the West End and on Broadway) as...

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*The Gift* is a comedy that follows Colin after he receives an unexpected cake box from his favourite patisserie, only to find that what's inside is very much not a cake.

Further casting has been announced for the UK premiere of *Here We Are*, which opens at the National Theatre in London on 23 April 2025.

Inspired by two of Luis Buñuel’s films – *The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie* and *The Exterminating Angel* – *Here We Are* is the final musical by Stephen Sondheim. It follows a group of guests at a dinner party, as they realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.

Joining this new production are Chumisa Dornford-May (*Natasha, Pierre & The Great...

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Inspired by two of Luis Buñuel’s films, *Here We Are* is the final musical by Stephen Sondheim and follows a group of guests at a dinner party.

Irish actor Paul Mescal is one of the biggest success stories of recent years. Born in 1996 in Maynooth, north County Kildare, Mescal initially aspired to be a footballer but discovered acting after an injury. He trained at Dublin’s Lir Academy of Dramatic Art and began his career as a stage actor.

Mescal’s mainstream breakthrough came in 2020 when he was cast as diffident student Connell Waldron in the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel *Normal People* opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones....

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The *Normal People* and *Gladiator II* star reprises his role as Stanley Kowalski at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End for three weeks in February.

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It’s been another fantastic, and fantastically varied, year of [London theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/). Multiple inventive revivals put a fresh spin on classic work, from Wilde and Shakespeare to Sophocles, while heartfelt new plays and musicals illuminated our complex world (and our obsession with true crime). 

Here are some of my top picks – and, happily, you still have time to catch a few of these gems.

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With 2024 drawing to a close, we look back on some of the year's theatrical highlights – from spectacular musicals to thrilling plays.

The Bush Theatre will host a one-night fundraising event with Sir Lenny Henry next year to raise vital funds for the venue. [*An Evening with Sir Lenny Henry*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43517-an-evening-with-sir-lenny-henry) will take place on 25 January.

Comedian, actor, and writer Lenny Henry, whose playwriting debut *August in England* was produced by The Bush in 2023, will read from his play, as well as take part in a live Q&A with culture writer and podcaster Nancy Durrant.

The...

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The west London venue has nurtured countless writers such as Michaela Coel, James Graham, and Benedict Lombe, but finds itself in a difficult financial position due to rising costs.

All rise for more [*To Kill a Mockingbird*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/20130-to-kill-a-mockingbird) tickets. Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's seminal American story will be onstage at the [Gielgud Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/gielgud-theatre) through 19 November. Tickets to *To Kill a Mockingbird* are available on London Theatre. [Book *To Kill a Mockingbird* tickets in the West End today. ](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/20130-to-kill-a-mockingbird)

Set in 1930s Alabama, the play follows lawyer Atticus Finch and his family as he defends the wrongfully accused Tom Robinson. Atticus's daughter Scout narrates the action, as she learns the tragic injustices that exist in her small town and the world. 

This stage adaptation opened on Broadway in 2018, where it was nominated for nine Tony Awards. Directed by Bartlett Sher and written by Sorkin, the London production stars [Rafe Spall](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/rafe-spall) as Atticus Finch, Gwyneth Keyworth as Scout Finch, Jude Owusu as Tom Robinson, David Moorst as Dill Harris, Harry Redding as Jem Finch, and Pamela Nomvete as Calpurnia. 

*To Kill a Mockingbird* started performances on 10 March, with an official opening on 31 March. 

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All rise for Harper Lee’s timeless courtroom drama, now in session in the West End. 

Harper Lee wrote *To Kill a Mockingbird*. To date, the American novelist's story of racial injustice has sold over 45 million copies. The popular novel follows lawyer Atticus Finch’s court case, told through the eyes of Scout, Atticus’s daughter. In the *To Kill a Mockingbird* play, the three young characters – Scout, Jem, and Dill – guide the action.

Aaron Sorkin adapts the *To Kill A Mockingbird* play, paired with Bartlett Sher’s visionary direction. The multi-award-winning screenwriter and playwright's work includes *The West Wing,* *The Social Network,* and *The Trial of the Chicago 7.* His version utilises the courtroom tension to show snapshots of an America past, the nation today, and give insight into the future of the United States.

*To Kill a Mockingbird* London shows started with Rafe Spall as Atticus Finch. Since then, Richard Coyle and Matthew Modine have portrayed the iconic literary role on stage. They join Broadway actors Jeff Daniels, Ed Harris, and Greg Kinnear as actors who have played the notorious lawyer.

*To Kill a Mockingbird* picked up six Olivier nominations: Best New Play, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (for David Moorst), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Pamela Nomvete), Best Actor (Rafe Spall), Best Director (Bartlett Sher), Best Set Design (Miriam Buether).

### What is *To Kill a Mockingbird* about?

The *To Kill a Mockingbird* play tells the story of young Scout and her father Atticus Finch, a lawyer tasked with defending a local, Tom Robinson, who is accused of rape. The novel explores justice and racial tension in a small Southern town, and is one of the best-selling novels of all-time.


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What does it take to stand for justice? Matthew Modine stars in this thrilling adaptation of the classic novel by acclaimed writer Aaron Sorkin (*The West Wing*). A shocking crime rocks a small town, and a young girl learns what it means to stand up for what’s right in this award-winning new play. Learn more about *To Kill A Mockingbird* tickets at the Gielgud Theatre today.

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book is one of the great American novels. Since its publication in 1960, schools across the world continue to incorporate the story into the national curriculum. 

The tale is inspired by her own childhood in 1930s rural Alabama; like Atticus, Lee’s father was an attorney who defended two black men. Now, the iconic story plays out in the hit *To Kill a Mockingbird* London production. Join Scout and Jem as they watch their father Atticus Finch defend an innocent African-American man, Tom Robinson, who has been falsely accused of rape. 

The show made its West End debut at the Gielgud Theatre in 2022 with Rafe Spall as Atticus Finch, with Richard Coyle and Matthew Modine taking over the role. Bartlett Sher directs *To Kill a Mockingbird* in London.

## What to Watch For:

- Harper Lee’s novel is renowned for telling its rich fable from the perspective of a child; it’s a coming-of-age tale as well as a snapshot of America. See how Sorkin translates that to the stage, using the three young characters – Scout, Jem, and Dill – to comment on and guide the action.
- It’s also fascinating to map some of the real-life people and places onto Lee’s story – whether it’s her relationship with her own father, or the childhood friend who inspired Dill: none other than Truman Capote, writer of *Breakfast at Tiffany’s* and *In Cold Blood*.
- Sorkin is renowned for his thrilling courtroom dramas, such as *A Few Good Men* (which starred Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in the movie) and *The Trial of the Chicago 7*. His version of *To Kill a Mockingbird* uses the courtroom tension as the basis for the whole play. 
- One of the past criticisms of the work is that the non-white characters don’t get to have much of a say. Sorkin addresses that in this new adaptation – if you know the book, you’ll spot significant changes and additions here for Tom and Calpurnia.
- However, Sorkin’s alterations led to an actual court battle between this new production and the Harper Lee estate, with particularly fraught wrangling over the characterisation of Atticus – who is arguably more flawed here. 

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A time-honoured title, not least against expectation in the UK, gets a vigorous new lease on life in this West End reboot of [*To Kill A Mockingbird*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/20130-to-kill-a-mockingbird), a London transplant of the 2018 New York iteration that made headlines as the most commercially successful straight play in Broadway history. 

Judging by its visceral appeal to a British audience, Harper Lee’s story of racial injustice in 1930s Alabama should resonate no less galvanically here, not least as refashioned by playwright Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher, and with a tremendous performance from [Rafe Spall](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/rafe-spall) inheriting Gregory Peck’s screen role as Atticus Finch. (This novel has long been a stage mainstay in Britain, albeit in a separate adaptation that brought Robert Sean Leonard to London to play Atticus in 2013.)

Times have changed rather significantly since Jeff Daniels opened in this production Stateside, and Sorkin has cannily adjusted his script to capture the changing zeitgeist and a necessarily heightened awareness of racism and societal injustice. 

The result more amply foregrounds the widower Atticus’s relationship with the family housekeeper Calpurnia (Pamela Nomvete) and, on this occasion anyway, rather side lines the narrative potential of Atticus’s daughter Scout, not least because Gwyneth Keyworth is still finding her footing in the role that brought Celia Keenan-Bolger a Tony Award. 

Keyworth looks perfect for the child-woman required of an adult playing a young girl, but may perhaps be held back by accent issues that on this occasion are shared among one or two others in the cast. 

I very much exclude from that line-up the pitch-perfect Spall and Nomvete – and, for that matter, recent drama school graduate Harry Redding, here making an impressive stage debut as Scout’s older brother, Jem (short for Jeremy, just as Scout is short for Jean-Louise). 

And whereas Lee’s 1960 novel takes its sweet time getting to the trial, the courtroom exists at the thematic and physical centre of a production that shifts multiple locales with ease as Miriam Buether’s restless set slides this way and that to accommodate the domestic requirements of the material as well as its legal aspects. 

Scout sets the scene, landing us in the rape trial of Tom Robinson (Jude Owusu), a 25-year-old Black man with three children who is put on the stand with Atticus in his corner and a hunched Mayella Ewell (Poppy Lee Friar) as the accused. Mayella’s father, Bob, is a snarling bigot played with full-throttle fury by the excellent Patrick O’Kane who, it’s intriguing to note, is also the cover for Atticus – which here gives new meaning to playing both sides of the fence.

“Conscience can be exhausting,” says Atticus, in one of the play’s key takeaway lines, and Spall’s great achievement is to locate a rumpled, creased authority within a potentially saintly character who is rescued here from unimpeachable rectitude, not least in a faceoff with Calpurnia that exposes even this upstanding lawyer’s limitations. 

Speaking of “hasten(ing) the change,” Atticus here sounds at times like someone running for office, and it’s no surprise when mention is made near the start of a possible gubernatorial role for this character. I’m not sure Bob Ewell needs on this occasion to be classed as anti-Semitic amongst his other hateful characteristics: that feels in context like a step too far. 

But Spall handles moral outrage with an understated command that invites empathy for this man on all fronts: a small-c crusader who puts decency first whilst acknowledging that no one, himself included, is without flaw.
A cast the size of many a musical includes the award-winning David Moorst as Dill Harris, who fairly blatantly figures as comic relief, and the invaluable Jim Norton (himself a Tony and Olivier winner) in robust form as a notably keen-witted judge. 

That nearly 90 years have passed between the era in which the play is set and today, with arguably very little having fundamentally changed, may give sorrowful pause: how are we to achieve that change which Atticus so movingly anticipates? As a richly emotional evening closes on the rending hymn “Joy Cometh in the Morning,” all one can and must do is look toward a better tomorrow and to those new and more just mornings that, with any luck, lie in wait.

[*To Kill a Mockingbird* is at the Gielgud Theatre to Nov. 19. Book *To Kill a Mockingbird* tickets on London Theatre.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/20130-to-kill-a-mockingbird)

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__Matthew Modine__ plays Atticus Finch in *To Kill a Mockingbird*, __Aaron Sorkin's__ new play based on __Harper Lee's__ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by __Bartlett Sher__, now open at the Gielgud Theatre.

Harper Lee's enduring story of racial injustice and childhood innocence has sold 45 million copies worldwide. In New York, the production has become the most successful American play in Broadway history.


*To Kill a Mockingbird* is at the Gielgud Theatre to 19 November. 

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Following a record-breaking UK and Ireland Tour, the “bona fide West End phenomenon” (Time Out) now returns to London! Running for a strictly limited 10 week season at the Gielgud Theatre from 25 May. 

The Gielgud Theatre is an iconic heritage venue located in the heart of London's bustling West End. Showcasing a wide array of performances ranging from dramatic plays, to musicals, to stand-up comedy, the theatre has been a magical place of storytelling since its doors first opened in the late 1800s. Upon entering the theatre, patrons are greeted by a stunning interior complete with opulent gold leaf detailing, royal red plush seating and ornate carved plaster. The plush Royal Circle boasts excellent sightlines, while the intimate, yet spacious Dress Circle and Stalls ensure every audience member feels close to the action. With a seating capacity of 986 spread across three levels, the theatre boasts an intimate atmosphere making every show a unique experience. 

**How to get to the venue:** Located at Shaftesbury Avenue, one of the easiest methods of reaching is by Tube. The closest station is Piccadilly Circus on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines. There are also many bus routes which stop close to the theatre making it easily accessible from all parts of the city. For those driving, a nearby Q-Park Theatreland car parking facility is available, though the theatre encourages use of public transport due to high congestion in the area.

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The Gielgud Theatre opened on 27 Dec. 1906, and was built for Seymour Hicks. The Gielgud was built as a pair with the [Sondheim Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/sondheim-theatre).

The house was renamed the Globe Theatre in 1909 by its new manager, Charles Frohman from America. It was known as the Globe Theatre for the next 85 years until a 1994 name change to avoid confusion with [Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/shakespeares-globe-theatre) on the South Bank. It was then that the theatre received its current name, the Gielgud.

Hit shows at the Gielgud Theatre include Simon Stephens' [*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time), Jez Butterworth's *The Ferryman* and a gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim's *Company*.  Delfont Mackintosh Theatres own the Gielgud Theatre.

## Gielgud Theatre Seating Information

The auditorium has three levels – Stalls, Dress Circle and Grand Circle.

The Stalls offers very good sightlines with each row being offset from the one in front. The overhang of the Dress Circle becomes apparent from Row R onwards.

The Dress Circle doesn’t have a strong rake. The stage is not obstructed by the overhang of the Upper Circle.

The Upper Circle seats offer good legroom. The seats curve inwards towards the stage.

## Where is *To Kill a Mockingbird* in the West End? 

*To Kill a Mockingbird* is at the Gielgud Theatre. The Gielgud Theatre is located on Shaftesbury Avenue, and is one of six theatres on the West End road.

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The Gielgud Theatre, opened in 1906, was renamed the Globe Theatre in 1909. It received its current name in 1994 to avoid confusion with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

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The Gielgud Theatre is an iconic, intimate London theatre, featuring lavish interiors, located in West End accessible by Tube, bus or car.

The stage adaptation of Harper Lee's novel started performances at the Gielgud Theatre on 10 March. 

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