It's a double dream Tuesday 💤
Fantasy mode is on at The Bridge 🤩
London Theatre Company has today announced two further productions opening at the Bridge Theatre during 2025.
One of The Bridge's biggest hits, the immersive A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM returns this summer following its premiere at the venue in 2019, with performances from 31 May to 23 August 2025.
The cast will include JJ Feild (Little Disasters, Austenland, Captain America) as Oberon/Theseus, Susannah Fielding (The Merchant of Venice, This Time with Alan Partridge) as Titania/Hippolyta, Emmanuel Akwafo (For the Black Boys…, Sex Education) as Bottom and David Moorst (Killing Eve, Blitz) who returns to the role of Puck/Philostrate, with further casting to be announced.
Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner directs with award winning production design by Bunny Christie (Evening Standard Theatre award winner), costumes by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Bruno Poet, sound design by Paul Arditti, music by Grant Olding and movement by Arlene Phillips. James Cousins is associate director and associate movement director.
A brand-new staging for The Bridge of Sondheim and Lapine's dazzling and moving musical INTO THE WOODS will begin performances from 2 December 2025 in a production helmed by director Jordan Fein and designer Tom Scutt, running for a strictly limited 20-week season until 18 April 2026.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s collaboration -- their second, after Sunday in the Park with George -- brilliantly weaves together four Grimms’ fairy-tales in a story of a baker and his wife on their quest to reverse a curse of childlessness cast upon them by the wicked witch.
On its Broadway debut in 1986, Into The Woods won Tony awards each for Sondheim (Best Musical) and Lapine (Best Book). In London it has had productions by Richard Jones (Phoenix Theatre, 1990), John Crowley (Donmar, 1998) and Timothy Sheader (Open Air, Regent's Park, 2010). This will be its first London production since 2016.
Nicholas Hytner, co-founder of The Bridge, says:
"Into The Woods is one of the great achievements of the American stage. Jordan Fein's production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Open Air Theatre last year was a triumph, beautifully staged and overwhelmingly moving, and Tom Scutt has established himself across the world as a designer of rare talent and imagination."
Jordan Fein's credits include Fiddler on the Roof at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Tom Scutt's extensive credits include Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in the West End and on Broadway where he won the Tony award last year for Best Scenic Design of a Musical.
Casting for INTO THE WOODS is to be announced.
Tickets for both productions go on sale to priority members of The Bridge today. Public booking opens on Friday 28 February, 10am via the Bridge Theatre website.