New 2019 season announced at Southwark Playhouse in London

A new season of plays and musicals has been announced for Southwark Playhouse's Little and Large spaces for the next year, including a transfer of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love and a new musical based on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

From 7^th January, the Hope Mill Theatre's production of Aspects of Love, directed by Jonathan O'Boyle, will transfer to London. Having premiered at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1989, the musical follows an English student Alex Dillingham travelling through France, and features the songs "Love Changes Everything" and "Seeing is Believing". It will play the large until 9^th February.

Running from 14^th February, Alex Oates and Dominic Shaw will collaborate again following their work on the play Silk Road, with All in a Row, a new play about raising a child with autism. With design by PJ McEvoy, puppets by Sian Kidd and lighting by Rachel Sampley, it will run in the Large until 9^th March.

James Phillips' play The Rubenstein Kiss will be revived in London for the first time in the Large by Joe Harmston from 14^th March. The play I inspired by a deeply devoted Jewish couple who were executed for allegedly aiding the Soviet Union in 1953.

In the Little, Anna Girvan will direct a production of Twelfth Night set at a music festival from 17^th January, James Saunders' comedy Bodies gets its first production in 40 years from 13^th February, Tom Gilvin's one-man musical about a man driving through the night from London to Carlisle, Stay Awake, Jake, runs from 13^th March, and Jerry Sterner's play about a family business under threat from a corporate competitor, Other People's Money, runs from 17^th April.

Opening in May and based on the short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, Jethro Compton and Darren Clark's musical adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will run in the Little. The story follows a man who is born an old man, and has previously been adapted for film in 2008 starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

Earlier this year, plans were announced for the theatre to operate from two new venues located in London Bridge, with an official leaving date from the current venue, and a final season there, yet to be announced.