Old Vic announces first season under Rupert Goold

Time Out London reports that the Old Vic has announced the first programming of Rupert Goold's tenure at the south London theatre. Goold previously led the Almeida Theatre in Islington. It was announced in 2024 that he and associate director Rebecca Frecknall would move to the Old Vic, taking over from Matthew Warchus.

The 2027 line-up so far includes four productions. Damian Lewis makes his Old Vic debut in Goold's own production of Shakespeare's Henry V (26 January to 27 March). Milly Alcock takes the title role in August Strindberg's Julie (10 April to 29 May), directed and adapted by Frecknall. Goold will direct Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (15 June to 21 August), about presidential assassins and would-be assassins in US history, which Time Out describes as the first London revival in a while. Arinzé Kene reunites with director Omar Elerian for a short run of Kohlhaas (27 August to 4 September), a monologue adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's 1810 novella.

The autumn season has yet to be announced. The theatre's Greene Studio will have its first programming, with a season to be announced early next year. The Old Vic will also launch £20 front row rush tickets for people under 30 during previews, called Old Vic New Rush, and continue a partnership with Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. All announced shows go on general sale at noon on 16 November.