HAMPSTEAD THEATRE

by Stephi Wild - January 06, 2025

The full company has been set for the world premiere of Anna Mackmin's new play, Backstroke – joining the previously announced Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie are Lucy Briers, Anita Reynolds and Georgina Rich....

by Alexander Cohen - December 17, 2024

Don’t be fooled. It’s midwinter and a rotund man with a big white beard is centre stage. But this is no schmultz-fest panto. It’s Simon Russell Beale as A.E Housman in Blanche Mcintyre’s sober new production of Tom Stoppard’s portrait of the artist as an old man, The Invention Of Love....

by Blair Ingenthron - November 30, 2024

Watch the trailer for King James by Rajiv Joseph, running now at Hampstead Theatre in the video here! Directed by Alice Hamilton, the production stars Ényì Okoronkwo and Sam Mitchell....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 25, 2024

See what the critics are saying about King James at Hampstead Theatre. Read the reviews for the production of the play by Rajiv Joseph and learn more!...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 28, 2024

See what the critics are saying about Reykjavík plays at Hampstead Theatre. Read the reviews for Richard Bean’s play and learn more about the production....

by Alexander Cohen - October 25, 2024

There’s a whiff of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem about Richard Bean’s Reykjavík. Come and raise a melancholic glass to the old world of superstition, mythic tales of magic and monsters, fated to be swallowed by the bloodless age of bureaucracy. It’s like spending an evening with that old man in the pu...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 17, 2024

See what the critics are saying about The Lightest Element at Hampstead Theatre. Read the reviews and learn more about the production....

by Stephi Wild - July 16, 2024

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced a revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Cabinet Minister, in a brand-new adaptation by Nancy Carroll, who also stars as Lady Katherine Twombley. ...

by Stephi Wild - June 25, 2024

Eleanor Lang has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of The Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End. ...

by Stephi Wild - April 03, 2024

The full cast has been announced for the UK premiere of Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis directed by Michael Longhurst at Hampstead Theatre from 3 May to 15 June....