Henry VIII in New York? WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES in Talks for Broadway Transfers

Following a sell-out run at the RSC's Swan Theatre, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are currently playing in the West End at the Aldwych Theatre, and according to the New York Times, they might travel across the pond soon!

An official announcement has not yet been made, but Broadway producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel are reportedly planning to bring the shows to Broadway in Spring 2015, possibly to the now vacant Winter Garden Theatre. If the shows made it to New York, they would be renamed WOLF HALL, PARTS 1 AND 2 to "sharpen and simplify the branding and marketing."

This is the first time Hilary Mantel's enormously popular books have been adapted for the stage. Adapted by Mike Poulton and directed by Jeremy Herrin, the two plays tell the compelling story of the political rise to power of Thomas Cromwell from blacksmith's boy to Henry VIII's right hand man.

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The West End company includes Ben Miles as Cromwell, Nathaniel Parker as Henry VIII, Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn, Paul Jesson as Cardinal Wolsey and Lucy Briers as Katherine of Aragon.

Wolf Hall won the Man Booker in 2009, and Bring Up the Bodies won in 2012, making Hilary Mantel the first woman ever to have received the award twice, and the first person to win the prize for two consecutive novels of the same series. She achieved another first recently when Bring Up the Bodies also won the Costa Novel Award, the first time the same novel has won both this and the Man Booker.