Just announced! Four new shows for 2025: the 130th birthday for our stunning Frank Matcham auditorium.
Public booking is now open for our new season of shows.
Gary Owen‘s radical reimagining of Henrik Ibsen‘s GHOSTS is directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan, reuniting the team behind the critically acclaimed Iphigenia in Splott, and opens April 2025.
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti adapts Sathnam Sanghera‘s critically acclaimed novel MARRIAGE MATERIAL, a multi-generational drama following one Sikh family and their corner shop from the 1960s to the present day. Directed by Iqbal Khan and opening May 2025.
The UK premiere of SING STREET, a new musical based on the 2016 movie of the same name by John Carney, opens July 2025. With a book by Tony Award winner Enda Walsh, music and lyrics by Gary Clark and Carney, this joyous coming-of-age story is directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman.
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm completes the season with a major new adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s DRACULA, directed by Emma Baggott. This reimagined version centres on the female voices at the heart of the story and opens September 2025.
Rachel O’Riordan, Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, said: “In 2025, our stunning Frank Matcham auditorium celebrates its 130th birthday. Originally designed as a music hall, it is in the DNA of the Lyric to present work in that same spirit: bold, eclectic, entertaining. Stories that take on the most important, current subjects and bring a broad audience together under one roof to enjoy them. So I’m delighted to be announcing a new season of four shows which absolutely exemplify that spirit for today in this special anniversary year for the Lyric.
This season truly has something for everyone – an Ibsen classic radically reimagined, a family saga set against the changing face of Britain, a heart-warming musical based on a beloved coming-of-age film, and a major new adaptation of a horror classic.
The four extraordinary playwrights who make up this season of work – Gary Owen, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Enda Walsh and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm – are as dynamic and varied as our audience, and represent some of the most exciting voices in contemporary theatre. I cannot wait for audiences to see their work on our beautiful stage and can think of no better way for the Lyric to celebrate this milestone birthday.”