Gemma Arterton and Kwame Kwei-Armah Announced for Donmar Warehouse 2016 Season

Artistic Director Josie Rourke and Executive Producer Kate Pakenham announce today a new autumn season of plays in Covent Garden to run alongside the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy at King's Cross. Kwame Kwei-Armah returns to the London stage to direct the UK premiere of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... by Kemp Powers, set on the historic night in 1964 when Cassius Clay celebrated winning the world heavyweight title with Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcom X. Following this, Josie Rourke will direct Gemma Arterton, who stars in the title role in Bernard Shaw's SAINT JOAN, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc.

Kwame Kwei-Armah returns to the UK with a new production of Kemp Powers' compelling play One Night in Miami... A fictional account of a real night in 1964, the play imagines a 22 year old Cassius Clay, fresh from his world heavyweight boxing title win choosing to celebrate with his three closest friends - activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and football star Jim Brown. The cast includes David Ajala as Jim Brown, Francois Battiste as Malcolm X, Sope Dirisu as Cassius Clay and Arinze Kene as Sam Cooke.

Artistic Director Josie Rourke will revive Bernard Shaw's seminal play Saint Joan. Gemma Arterton will play Shaw's central character - a figure who has been described variously through history as a saint, a witch, an illiterate farm girl and a political genius. Other casting includes Matt Bardock as Robert De Baudricourt and D'Estivet, Richard Cant as De Stogumber, Hadley Fraser as Dunois and Elliot Levey as Cauchon.

As previously announced, this autumn the Donmar will open a new theatre in King's Cross to stage Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare Trilogy led by Harriet Walter - Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest. 25% of all tickets will be made free to 25s and under, with a new ticket initiative Young+Free, which invites the public to pay forward a ticket to a new generation of theatre-goers.

The Donmar New York Season begins on 2 July with a new production of James Graham and Josie Rourke's Privacy at The Public Theater. The season continues this autumn with Josie Rourke's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Broadway's Booth Theater starring Janet McTeer, Liev Schreiber and Mary Beth Peil, and the transfer of Phyllida Lloyd's The Tempest to Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse.

Donmar at King's Cross King's Boulevard, King's Cross, London N1C 4BU 0844 815 7151 For more information visit www.donmaratkingscross.com

For 25s and under to register for Young+Free visit www.donmaratkingscross.com