Bridge Theatre

The Bridge Theatre is a new commercial theatre building near Tower Bridge in London, due to open on 18 October 2017. It has been developed by Nick Starr and Nicholas Hytner and is the residency of their founded London Theatre Company, following their tenancy as excecutive director and artistic director, respectively, at the National Theatre.

The theatre will seat 900 and be a flexible space to accommodate each production, for example the opening production Young Marx will be a traditional end-on set up while Julius Caesar will have the stalls seating removed and be in promenade to allow the audience to be part of the mob within the play. It was reported that the theatre had cost £12million to build.

Opening season

The opening season of the Bridge Theatre will include:

• Young Marx by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, starring Rory Kinnear and Oliver Chris, directed by Nicholas Hytner (18 October - 31 December 2017)
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, starring Michelle Fairley, Ben Whishaw, David Calder and David Morrissey, directed by Nicholas Hytner (20 January - 15 April 2018)
• Nightfall by Barney Norris, directed by Laurie Sansom (28 April - 3 June 2018)

Future projects include:

• Alys, Always a new play by Lucinda Coxon based on the novel by Harriet Lane, directed by Nicholas Hytner
• Flatpack a dark comedy by John Hodge

• An as-yet-untitled work by Nina Raine on the life of Johann Sebastian Bach (with Simon Russell Beale as Bach).
• The Black Cloud a new play by Sam Holcroft from the 1957 novel by Fred Hoyle
• Carmen Havana by Lucy Prebble based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, directed by Nicholas Hytner, choreography by Miguel Altunaga