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The play premieres in September

Hampstead Theatre has announced a full season of eight new productions beginning on 7 September 2023 and running until 16 March 2024.

Anna Ziegler’s play fictionalises the drama around the 1951 discovery of the structure of DNA.

CFT summer SOUTH PACIFIC. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener. Directed by Daniel Evans. 5 July – 4 September 2021, live in the Festival Theatre. Streamed as live on 4, 9, 14, 18, 21, 26, 31 August & 3 September Led by Gina Beck (Matilda, Show Boat, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera) as Nellie, Julian Ovenden (Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Merrily We Roll Along, Grand Hotel, BBC Proms) as Emile, Joanna Ampil (Avenue Q, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon) as Bloody Mary, Keir Charles (Quiz, ...

Wonderful planned productions had to be cancelled or mothballed to next year. By halving the theatre’s seating capacity, a couple of concerts were able to go ahead and a live audience was joined by people at home watching live screenings. Luckily this solution is available for the Christmas offering from Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in an adaptation of Pinocchio by Anna Ledwich.  Normally the show is presented with a cast of 60 plus. This year it has been reduced to two teams of 30 appearing in alternate performances.  The familiar tale tells of a wooden puppet who becomes ...