The season is set to include the return of musical Murder Ballad to London.
The Greenwich Theatre has announced its 2025 season which will be filled with theatre, musicals, live music, children’s shows and completing the year with a pantomime.
This newly announced season will open with Nick Payne’s One Day When We Were Young (26th February – 22nd March) which is being produced in association with the Park Theatre where it will play for a strictly limited season. It follows the story of Leonard and Violet who Violet spend their first night together as the bombs begin to fall during World War II, and embark on a journey spanning six-decades that stretches the delicate, invisible bond between two people to its limit.
Meanwhile, Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song (2nd to the 24th May) will be performed at the theatre’s main space. Having first premiered in the UK at the Almeida Theatre, in March 2009, it a blackly comic exploration of deceit, paranoia
and desire and will star Jeremy Edwards (The Locke Inn, 2016; Hollyoaks, 1995).
For the Summer, Greenwich Theatre will present a musical adaptation of The Three Musketeers which has been written by favourite Anthony Spargo (Horrible Histories – BarmyBritain Parts One, Two, Three and Four!, Garrick Theatre and Apollo Theatre; Ernest and the Pale Moon, Les Enfants Terribles National Tours).
Also heading to the theatre from the 30th July until the 24th August will be The Elves and the Shoemaker. Suitable for those ones under 6, the story follows of what happens when a mysterious Elf-Inspector arrives at a struggling shoemaker’s shop, they declare that the surprise visitor must go, but as the shoemaker and their partner watch the elves work their magic, they’re faced with the question of whether these visitors are really a problem after all.
The London return of Murder Ballad (last seen in 2016), will make an appearance from the 30th September until the 26th October. This musical follows the story of three three people, disillusioned by life and caught in a secret love triangle that threatens
to tear their lives apart.
2025 will be rounded out by Peter Pan (28th November – 11 January 2026), written by
and starring Greenwich favourite Anthony Spargo.
Meanwhile, the season will also feature a range of work from a variety of visiting companies. Cattle Productions will bring ‘rag and boning’ father and son duo Albert and Harold to Greenwich with Steptoe and Son: Live (17th January), offering the conflict and highlights from the smash hit BBC television series (1962-1974), live on stage. Die Fledermaus (31st January – 1st February) promises audiences unforgettable melodies, fizzy frolics and cheeky capers with a witty translation of Strauss’ enduring operetta, directed by Guido Martin-Brandis. Greenwich Theatre’s Studio Bar will
also host a Valentine’s Day extravaganza as Jas Ratchford and David Thomas present the hilarious sing-along show Punchlines ‘n’ records (14th February).
Artistic Director James Haddrell comments: “At a time when so many theatres are being forced to scale back their ambition, we are delighted to unveil our most ambitious year to date, with major drama and musical revivals alongside new work for families, and of course the return of our annual award-winning pantomime.”
To find out more visit: https://greenwichtheatre.org.uk/whats-on/