2024-25 Season

Today we are announcing five new productions taking to the Almeida stage later this year and throughout 2025.

Following her Olivier Award-winning production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall (Cabaret) directs BAFTA nominee Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love; Barbie) and Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People; Twisters) in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opening this December.

Next spring sees the world premiere of Otherland by Chris Bush, the playwright behind the Olivier Award-winning Standing at the Sky’s Edge, and director and choreographer Ann Yee (Next to Normal; The Human Body), a play that explores what it means to be true to yourself in the face of unstoppable change.

Returning to the Almeida next year following his ★★★★★ (The Telegraph) production of The Chairs, Omar Elerian translates and directs Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist satire about resisting conformity and holding onto what’s left of our humanity as we resist the rumbling power of the herd.

In summer 2025, Ava Pickett‘s Susan Smith Blackburn Award-winning play 1536 will premiere directed by Lyndsey Turner, having been written under commission as part of our Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme. A fiendishly smart and funny new play, 1536 looks at the friendship between three women, set against the backdrop of Anne Boleyn’s trial and execution.

Following 1536 is Rebecca Frecknall‘s production of Eugene O’Neill‘s A Moon for the Misbegotten featuring Golden Globe-winner Ruth Wilson (The Affair; Luther) and Academy Award-nominated Michael Shannon (George & Tammy; Boardwalk Empire) in this “scorching play about the eternal American theme of reality and illusion” (The Guardian).

Tickets for Otherland and Rhinoceros will go on sale later this year, with tickets for 1536 and A Moon for the Misbegotten going on sale in early 2025. Sign up to our mailing list to be reminded when tickets are available.