REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2024 SUMMER SEASON
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT, DIRECTED BY OWEN HORSLEY
- FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT’S THE SECRET GARDEN IN A NEW VERSION BY HOLLY ROBINSON AND ANNA HIMALI HOWARD, DIRECTED BY HOWARD
- JOSEPH STEIN, JERRY BOCK AND SHELDON HARNICK’S FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, DIRECTED BY JORDAN FEIN
- JOINING THE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED BEAR SNORES ONAND THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE
- NEW FOR THE 2024 SUMMER SEASON – OVER 33,000 TICKETS AT £15, AND ALL MONDAY TICKETS AVAILABLE AT £15 / £25 / £35
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre today announce its 2024 summer season, opening with Twelfth Night (or What You Will) (3 May – 8 June 2024). Shakespeare’scomedy of mistaken identities is directed by Owen Horsley set against the heat of the Mediterranean sun.
Playing during the daytime for those aged 4+ and their families is the new musical version of Roald Dahl’s picture book, The Enormous Crocodile (17 May – 8 June 2024), with book & lyrics by Suhayla El-Bushra, music by Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab and additional music and lyrics from Tom Brady. Developed and directed by Emily Lim, with co-direction and puppetry design by Toby Olié, the production comes to Regent’s Park following its successful 2023 Christmas season at Leeds Playhouse.
This is followed by the stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story, The Secret Garden (15 June – 20 July 2024) in a new version by Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard, and directed by Howard.
The season concludes with Fiddler on the Roof (27 July – 21 September 2024), with book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. In a new production directed by Jordan Fein, this classic musical of joy, revolution and tradition features the glorious songs ‘If I Were A Rich Man’, ‘Tradition’ and ‘Matchmaker’.
Alongside the 2024 summer season, Regent’s Park also present the previously announced world premiere stage adaptation of Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman’s Bear Snores On (23 March – 21 April 2024), with book by Cush Jumbo and Katy Sechiari, and music & lyrics by Harry Blake. The production, directed by Jumbo and Sechiari, marks Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s first ever show at the venue outside of its summer season, inviting audiences of 4+ and their families to travel from the theatre lawn to a new and specially created indoor pop-up space within the theatre grounds.
James Pidgeon and Tim Sheader said today, “Following the announcement of Bear Snores On at the end of last year – marking the first time in our 92-year history that we’re producing a project in the spring – we’re now thrilled to be sharing our 2024 summer season with you. This year’s summer season includes a Shakespeare comedy revival; a new commission of a literary favourite, continuing our commitment to the development of new work; a revival of a musical classic which this year celebrates its 60th birthday; and a new musical for ages 4+, produced in collaboration with Roald Dahl Story Company and Leeds Playhouse. Whilst Drew McOnie, our new Artistic Director, begins work on plans for 2025 and beyond, we very much look forward to welcoming you to Regent’s Park this summer for Tim’s seventeenth and final season which continues to celebrate the magic and power of togetherness that comes with telling stories under a shared sky.”
Full creative teams and casting for all productions to be announced.
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is currently on a UK tour until August 2024; and the musical version of Dodie Smith’s classic book 101 Dalmatians reimagined from the 2022 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production embarks on a UK tour from June 2024.
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Memberships are now on sale, and Members’ priority booking for the 2024 summer season opens at 12pm today, with public booking opening at 12pm on Thursday 1 February 2024.
Visit www.openairtheatre.com/membership for more information.
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
Bear Snores On
Book by Cush Jumbo and Katy Sechiari
Music & Lyrics by Harry Blake
Based on the book by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Creatives include Harry Blake (Musical Director); Rebecca Brower (Set & Costume Designer); Joshie Harriette (Lighting Designer); Lotte Hines (Casting Director); Cush Jumbo (Co-Director); Maia Kirkman-Richards (Puppet Designer & Director); Ebony Molina (Movement Director); Katy Sechiari (Co-Director);
Luke Swaffield (Sound Designer)
23 March – 21 April 2024
‘In a cave, in the woods in his deep,
dark lair, through the long, cold winter
sleeps a great brown bear.’
A winter frost covers the trees of Regent’s Park, a snow storm is brewing and a tiny Mouse is looking for somewhere warm and safe to hide…a nearby cave could hold the answer but what else does it hold? Something big and brown and fluffy?
Grab your backpack and join Mouse on a magical theatrical journey as she finds fun, courage and a whole bunch of new animal friends.
With book by Cush Jumbo (Josephine and I, Bush Theatre, London and Public Theatre, New York) and Katy Sechiari (Sweeney Todd, The BRIT School) and music & lyrics by Harry Blake (The Tempest reimagined for everyone aged six and over, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Bear Snores On is inspired by the beloved picture book, for anyone aged 4+ with a sense of adventure.
In spring 2024, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will emerge early from our annual hibernation for Bear Snores On. This new theatrical experience for families will travel from the theatre lawn to an indoor pop-up space within the theatre grounds.
Presented in association with Cush Jumbo.
Harry Blake | Music & Lyrics and Musical Director
For Regent’s Park: The Tempest reimagined for everyone aged 6 and over (2023).
Theatre includes: How a City Can Change the World (Sheffield Theatres); Starcrossed (Wilton’s Music Hall); Say Yes to Tess (Leeds Playhouse/UK tour); The Memory of Water, Paradise (Hampstead Theatre); Blood Wedding, Her Naked Skin, Night Must Fall, Hedda Gabler (Wiltshire Creative); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter Theatre/UK tour); Wild East (Young Vic); Thor + Loki (HighTide/Edinburgh Fringe/UK tour); Peter Pan, The Beggar’s Opera, The Secret Seven (Storyhouse); Ode to Leeds, Rudolf (Leeds Playhouse); Jason and the Argonauts, The Snow Child, Septimus Bean and his Amazing Machine (Unicorn Theatre); P’yongyang (Finborough); Casa Valentina (Southwark Playhouse); Rhinegold, Manga Sister (The Yard).
Cush Jumbo |Adaptor & Co-Director
Cush Jumbo OBE is a British actress and writer. Most recently, Cush has been seen in Netflix’s adaptation of Harlan Coben’s New York Times bestselling novel, Stay Close, and in BritBoxUK’s first original drama The Beast Must Die, opposite Jared Harris. She will next be seen in new Apple TV+thriller Criminal Record, opposite Peter Capaldi and as the lead in fencing thriller Balestra. Cush made her Broadway debut opposite Hugh Jackman in Jez Butterworth’s The River. Cush then transferred her self-penned, one-woman show Josephine and I from the Bush Theatre to The Public Theatre in Manhattan. Cush won both the Evening Standard Award for Emerging Talent in London and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show in New York, and the show sold out in both cities. It was her performance in the show that captured the attention of The Good Wife creators who then went on to write the role of ‘Lucca’ in the show specifically for her. That success then spun off into The Good Fight in which she starred opposite Rose Leslie and Christine Baranski. In 2021, she starred as the title role of Hamlet in the Young Vic production, directed by Greg Hersov, for which she won a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award and was nominated for Best Actress at the Oliviers. Her extensive stage experience also includes roles such as Marc Antony in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar at Donmar Warehouse (London) and St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC) for which she was Olivier-nominated, The Shakespeare in the Park production of The Taming of the Shrew, also by Phyllida Lloyd, Maria in Love Labours Lost at Shakespeare’s Globe and Nora in A Doll’s House at the Royal Exchange Theatre. It has recently been announced that she will reunite with David Tennant at the Donmar Warehouse in their upcoming production of Macbeth. Cush will play Lady Macbeth opposite Tennant’s Macbeth.
Katy Sechiari | Adaptor & Co-Director
For Regent’s Park (Performance Credit): The Jungle Book (1998), Watership Down (1997).
Directing credits for The BRIT School: Sweeney Todd, Pippin, Cases, Songs for a New World, Our House, Rent, Legally Blonde, The Red Shoes (Bussey Building), Carrie: The Musical, 13: The Musical, Urinetown, Home (Bussey Building), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Hair, Little Shop of Horrors, Our House, A Chorus Line, Oklahoma! Bright Lights, Big City, Zombie Prom, Blood Wedding, Mark Ravenhill’s The Odyssey (The Ashcroft Theatre), Elegies for Angel, Punks and Raging Queens, Spend, Spend, Spend. As part of Katy’s extensive community and outreach participation work, some of the organisations that Katy has worked with include: Little Amal, Evening Standard Awards, Centre Point, Metropolitan Police, BRIT Trust, Young Vic Taking Part, National Theatre New Views, War Child Charity, BBC Radio 2 for Friday Night is Music Night, Big Issue, National Youth Music Theatre, Terrence Higgins Trust, Kairos Community Trust, St Christopher’s Hospice, Delfont Mackintosh’s Education programme, Disney Teachers Advisory Board, Chicken Shed.
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
Twelfth Night
or What You Will
By William Shakespeare
Creatives include Basia Binkowska (Set Designer); Ryan Dawson-Laight (Costume Designer); Daniel Hay-Gordon (Choreographer & Movement Director); Lotte Hines (Casting Director); Cory Hippolyte (Associate Director); Owen Horsley (Director); Sam Kenyon (Composer & Musical Supervisor); Aideen Malone (Lighting Designer); Max Pappenheim (Sound Designer)
3 May – 8 June 2024
‘What country, friends, is this?’
At a moonlit cafe surrounded by the sea, Olivia sings a lament to her lost brother, watched on by faded crowd.
When a shipwreck catapults Viola into their world of abandoned festivities, a web of disguise and deception begins. This new injection of life rocks this melancholic community to the core, but can she finally shake them from their languor and get the party started again?
Set against the heat of the Mediterranean sun, Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities is a glorious celebration of love. Directed by Owen Horsley (Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses, Royal Shakespeare Company) in a marriage of happiness, nostalgia and riotous partying.
Owen Horsley | Director
Owen is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Associate Director of Cheek By Jowl.
Theatre includes Diana: The Musical (Hammersmith Apollo); Into the Woods (RWCMD); Linck & Mülhahn (Hampstead Theatre) Henry VI: Rebellion, Wars of the Roses, Maydays, Salome, The Famous Victories of Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company); Dorian (Reading Rep); Miss Littlewood, Boundless as the Sea (Royal Shakespeare Company/Cunard); Hamlet (CSC, New York); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garsington Opera); Henry V (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Watermill Theatre); Edward II (St Andrew’s Crypt); The Duchess of Malfi (Southwark Playhouse/UK Tour); ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Co-Director, Cheek By Jowl Tour). Associate and Assistant Director credits include King and Country, Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Changeling, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth (Cheek By Jowl).
Opera includes: La Cenerentola (Nevil Holt), Don Giovanni (LaMaMa, New York)
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Roald Dahl Story Company and Leeds Playhouse co-production
The new musical version of Roald Dahl’s picture book
The Enormous Crocodile
Book & Lyrics by Suhayla El-Bushra
Music by Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab
Additional music and lyrics from Tom Brady
Creatives include Phij Adams (Music Technology & Ambleton Programmer); Daisy Beattie (Associate Puppet Designer & Puppet Supervisor); Tom Brady (Orchestrations, Arrangements & Music Supervisor); Fly Davis (Set & Costume Designer); Johnny Edwards (Associate Sound Designer); Tom Gibbons (Sound Designer); Tash Holway (Associate Director); Jessica Hung Han Yun (Lighting Designer); Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu (Choreographer); Emily Lim (Developer & Director); Toby Olié (Co-Director & Puppetry Designer); Màth Roberts (Music Director)
18 May – 8 June 2024
‘For my lunch today I would like… a nice juicy little child!’
The ENORMOUS crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle in search of delicious little fingers and squidgy podgy knees.
Only the other jungle creatures can foil his secret plans and clever tricks, but they’re going to have to find a large amount of courage to stop this greedy brute.
This new musical version of Roald Dahl’s picture book has tasty tunes by Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab and has a rib-tickling book and lyrics by Suhayla El-Bushra, and additional music and lyrics by Tom Brady. Developed and Directed by Emily Lim, it features a menagerie of mischievous puppets by co-director and puppetry designer Toby Olié, set and costume design by Fly Davis. The jungle awaits the bravest of children!
The Enormous Crocodile musical was developed by Emily Lim, Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab, Suhayla El-Bushra, Tom Brady and Roald Dahl Story Company.
Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab | Music
Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab is a Sudanese-American composer, producer, singer, songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. He performs under the moniker Sinkane and has just released his latest album, We Belong, on City Slang Records. Food is his other passion and he loves to freak people out by putting hot sauce on everything… Yes, even ice cream.
Tom Brady | Additional Music & Lyrics
Tom studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, where he is recipient of the ARAM award.
Credits as Music Director or Supervisor include: Guys & Dolls (The Bridge); Pinocchio (National Theatre); Show Boat, Caroline or Change (West End); Oklahoma! (Young Vic); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sheffield Crucible); Flowers for Mrs Harris, Fiddler on the Roof, Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); The Empress (RSC & Kneehigh); Romantics Anonymous (Wise Children & Bristol Old Vic/US Tour); Anything Goes (Sheffield Crucible & UK Tour); Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall); Evita (Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia); Have A Nice Life (Edinburgh, NYC Fringe and Philadelphia).
Tom has also conducted concerts with the Orchestre Nationale d’Lille.
Credits as arranger or additional arranger include: Guys & Dolls (The Bridge); The Empress (RSC & Kneehigh); The Magicians’ Elephant (RSC); Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre); The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible).
Credits as composer include: The Butterfly Lion (Chichester Festival Theatre); Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty (CFYT).
Tom teaches on the Musical Theatre postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music.
Suhayla El-Bushra | Book & Lyrics
Theatre includes: The Suicide (National Theatre); Cuckoo (Unicorn Theatre); Arabian Nights (Lyceum, Edinburgh); The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Screen work includes: Ackley Bridge (C4); Becoming Elizabeth (Starz); Bush (Film4).
Emily Lim | Director
Emily’s work explores theatre making as a form of community building and radical joy.
She is Director of Public Acts at the National Theatre and an Associate Artist at the National Theatre and Company Three. She was the recipient of the inaugural Peter Hall Bursary at the National Theatre from 2016-2018.
Theatre includes: The Odyssey, Pericles, A Declaration From The People (National Theatre); Yoko Ono’s Bells for Peace (Manchester International Festival); We’re Here Because We’re Here (1418 Now, National Theatre & Birmingham Rep); Brainstorm (Company Three, National Theatre & Park Theatre); Everything, The Best Day Ever! A Play About the End of the World (Company Three); Grown Up (Gameshow, Camden People’s Theatre); Wuthering Heights (National Youth Theatre); Things Will Never Be The Same Again (And Other Stories), The Kilburn Passion, The Wardrobe (Tricycle Theatre); Another Fine Mess (Bristol Old Vic); Henry V (Southwark Playhouse).
Toby Olié | Co-Director & Puppet Designer
Toby is a director, designer and puppeteer.
For Regent’s Park: 101 Dalmatians (2022); Running Wild (2016, also UK Tour).
As Director, theatre includes: Neil Gaiman’s The Wolves in the Walls (Little Angel); The Four Seasons: A Reimagining (Gyre & Gimble/Shakespeare’s Globe); The Elephantom (National Theatre/Gillian Lynne); The Hartlepool Monkey (Gyre & Gimble/UK Tour) and associate puppetry director of War Horse (National Theatre/Gillian Lynne).
As Puppetry Designer/Director, theatre includes: Spirited Away (Imperial Theatre, Tokyo & Coliseum, London); Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Light Princess (National Theatre); Don Quixote (RSC/Garrick); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Opera House); Disney’s new staging of The Little Mermaid (Holland/Moscow/Tokyo); A Robot in the Garden, The Boy and the Beast (Shiki Theatre Company, Japan); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic/Trafalgar Studios); A Christmas Carol, Running Wild, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Peter Pan (Chichester Festival); Little Shop of Horrors (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Goodnight Mister Tom (Duke of York’s/UK Tour).
As Puppeteer, theatre includes: Hind of Joey in the original production of War Horse (National Theatre) before moving to Joey’s head for the subsequent West End transfer; Venus and Adonis (RSC); National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage (BBC One); The Homeless Polar Bear (Greenpeace short film); Angelo (Little Angel).
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
In a new version by Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard
Creatives include Tingying Dong (Sound Designer); Anna Himali Howard (Director); Polly Jerrold (Casting Director); Jai Morjaria (Lighting Designer); Hana Pascal Keegan (Associate Director); Khadija Raza (Costume Designer); Holly Robinson (Writer); Leslie Travers (Set Designer)
15 June – 20 July 2024
‘Mary would always say that what happened at that moment was almost magic.’
Spoilt and abandoned, 10-year-old Mary Lennox is sent from India to Yorkshire, and put into the care of an uncle she has never met.
At Misselthwaite Manor, a broken-hearted house full of secrets and strange noises, Mary discovers a garden as lost and neglected as she is. If she can learn to make friends with robins, grumpy gardeners, and a boy who speaks to animals, Mary might be able to bring more than just the garden back to life.
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved and radical story about the magic of nature and the nature of magic is adapted in a new version by Holly Robinson (soft animals, Soho Theatre) and Anna Himali Howard (Graceland, Royal Court; Orpheus, Opera North).
Commissioned by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Anna Himali Howard |Director
Anna Himali Howard is a director, theatremaker and dramaturg. She was a Creative Associate at the Gate Theatre and was an Associate Artist at Brixton House.
Theatre directing includes: Graceland (Royal Court Theatre Jerwood Upstairs); Orpheus (Opera North); Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House); Curious (Soho Theatre, 2021); I Stand for What I Stand On (Strike a Light & GYCA); Inside (Orange Tree Theatre); I Wanna be Yours (Bush & UK tour); As Small Place, Albatross (Gate); Be Next Young Company (Birmingham Repertory Theatre & European Theatre Festival); Yours Sincerely (Birmingham Repertory Theatre & Vaults Festival); Small Island (Staff Director, National); Fleabag (Associate Director, International tour, prod. Soho Theatre & Drywrite, 2018); Othello (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse).
Theatremaker credits include: Jane Anger (Yard Theatre Live Drafts); Mahabharat/A (Camden People’s Theatre); The Beanfield (Breach Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, New Diorama & UK tour).
Holly Robinson | Writer
Holly is a Birmingham-born playwright, now based in London. Her first play Soft Animals was written as part of the Soho Writers’ Lab programme, and opened at Soho Theatre in 2019. Holly was subsequently nominated for the Best Writer award at the 2019 Stage Debut Awards. Holly is currently one of the Soho Six and is developing her play with Soho. Holly is also developing an original screen idea with Chapter One.
Theatre includes: Small Myth (Vault Festival); Soft Animals (Soho Theatre).
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
Fiddler on the Roof
Based on the Sholem Aleichem Stories by Special Permission of Arnold Perl
Book by Joseph Stein
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Produced on the New York Stage by Harold Prince
Original New York Stage Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Creatives include Mark Aspinall (Musical Supervisor); Stuart Burt (Casting Director); Julia Cheng (Choreographer); Jordan Fein (Director); Hannah Hauer-King (Associate Director); Nick Lidster for Autograph (Sound Designer); Aideen Malone (Lighting Designer); Tom Scutt (Designer)
27 July – 21 September 2024
‘It’s a new world, a new world. Love.’
It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka where Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, that means a visit from the matchmaker… But as each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he bend to the will of his children and learn to embrace the unfamiliar?
In a new production directed by Jordan Fein (Oklahoma, Young Vic), and featuring glorious songs, ‘If I Were A Rich Man’, ‘Tradition’, ‘Matchmaker’ and ‘Sunrise, Sunset’, this classic musical of joy, revolution and community is an exuberant celebration of love and life.
Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International.
Jordan Fein | Director
Jordan is a theatre and opera director based somewhere between New York and London. Select credits include Ryan Haddad’s new play Dark Disabled Stories (The Public Theater/The Bushwick Starr), the world premiere of Andrew Butler’s Rags Parkland Sings The Songs of The Future (Ars Nova: Lucille Lortel for Outstanding New Musical), Erin Markey’s Singlet (The Bushwick Starr) and A Ride On The Irish Cream (American Realness Festival, American Repertory Theater), The Miserly Knight and The Dead City (Bard Summerscape), Indecent (Weston Playhouse), The Skin Of Our Teeth (Bard College) and Dialogues of The Carmelites (Opera Philadelphia/Curtis Opera Theatre). Jordan co-directed the London transfer of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! At The Young Vic (Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical) and was the Associate Director for the 2019 Broadway Revival (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical). He is the Associate Director and Director of The Prologue on the current West End revival of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret (Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical). Jordanfein.net
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REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE
Established in 1932, the multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is one of the largest theatres in London (at a capacity of 1,304). Passionate about producing popular, enriching and unexpected theatre that provides a lens into the here and now, the scale and ambition of our productions together with our magical outdoor setting, makes us unique in the capital’s cultural landscape. Every year we welcome over 150,000 people to our 20-week summer season.
Drew McOnie assumed the role of Artistic Director in January 2024, taking over from Tim Sheader, and will programme the 2025 season onwards. James Pidgeon was appointed Executive Director in 2021.
Over the last twelve years, our productions have won seven Olivier Awards, seven WhatsOnStage Awards, and four Evening Standard Awards. We were named London Theatre of the Year in 2017 by The Stage, and received the Highly Commended Award for London Theatre of the Year in 2021. Our productions have toured the UK, and have transferred to both the West End and the United States. Our 2016 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar is currently touring North America for the second time, and commenced a UK tour in September 2023.
As a registered charity that receives no regular public subsidy, we rely entirely on earned income and charitable contributions. Nevertheless, we have introduced 29,000 tickets at £15 across the whole of 2024’s summer season, our BREEZE scheme enables those aged 18-25 to buy tickets for £10, and we regularly work with local charities. Each year, on average, we subsidise tickets for 6,000 school pupils.
Food and drink plays a significant role in the Open Air Theatre experience, with our in-house bars and restaurants including Covered Dining (recently certified as a Sustainably Run Restaurant), The Grill and The Pizza Oven. We also have our own picnic lawn and the West End’s longest bar!
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has become one of the most independently sustainable and financially successful producing theatres in the country, and we’re proud to embark on the next stage of our vision with ever-increasing artistic ambition and entrepreneurial spirit.
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2024 SEASON AT A GLANCE
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
BEAR SNORES ON
23 March – 21 April 2024
Access performances:
Relaxed: Saturday 6 April, 2pm and Thursday 11 April, 11am
BSL Interpreted: Tuesday 16 April, 1pm
Age Recommend: 4+
Tickets from: £12.50
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
TWELFTH NIGHT
3 May – 8 June 2024
Access performances:
Captioned: Friday 31 May, 7.30pm
BSL Interpreted: Thursday 6 June,7.30pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 8 June, 2pm
Age Recommend: 12+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Roald Dahl Story Company and Leeds Playhouse production
THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE
17 May – 8 June 2024
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Wednesday 5 June, 10.15am
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Friday 7 June, 1.45pm
Age Recommend: 4+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
THE SECRET GARDEN
15 June – 20 July 2024
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Tuesday 9 July, 7.45pm and Wednesday 17 July, 7.45pm
Relaxed: Sunday 14 July, 5pm
Captioned: Friday 19 July, 7.45pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 20 July, 2.15pm
Age Recommend: 10+
Tickets from: £15
A Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
27 July – 21 September 2024
Access performances:
BSL Interpreted: Tuesday 3 September, 7.45pm
Captioned: Friday 6 September, 7.45pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 7 September, 2.15pm
Age Recommend: 12+
Tickets from: £15
ON TOUR
David Ian for Crossroads Live and Work Light Productions present
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
UK Tour until August 2024
Runaway Entertainment present
101 DALMATIONS
Reimagined from the 2022 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production
UK Tour from June 2024