Sigourney Weaver | The Tempest
8 Weeks | Performances
7 December 2024 – 1 February 2025
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness.
8 WEEKS ONLY. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE
AGE RECOMMENDATION 12+
Tom Hiddleston | Much Ado About Nothing
8 weeks | Performances
10 February – 5 April 2025
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”
Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.
8 weeks only. Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Lloyd said: “It is such an honour to be invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to be the first company to present Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in decades. I could not be more thrilled to welcome three-time Academy award nominated and BAFTA and Golden Globe winning actress, Sigourney Weaver — an international icon of stage and screen — to London. Then to collaborate again with two of the greatest actors of their generation — Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell — on one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most tender comedies is a dream come true.”
The season fulfils Lloyd Webber’s ambition to have Shakespeare at the venue again, with the last performance of the playwright’s work in 1957, The Tempest starring John Gielgud.
Hiddleston described working with Lloyd on Harold Pinter’s Betrayal as “one of the most fulfilling and meaningful experiences of my performing life”.
“I could not be more thrilled to have been given the opportunity to collaborate with him again, this time on one of Shakespeare’s most warm-hearted and joyful plays: Much Ado About Nothing. It is an honour to have been invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to bring Shakespeare back to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in a season alongside Sigourney Weaver in The Tempest, and to be working with the great Hayley Atwell for the first time,” he added.
