Old Vic 'Arcadia' to transfer to the West End

The production received two Olivier nominations including Best Revival and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Isis Hainsworth. Stoppard passed away in November 2025 aged 88.

The Old Vic’s Olivier Award-nominated production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia will transfer to the West End this summer. The production will run at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 20 June to 12 September.

The production ran at The Old Vic from 24 January to 21 March this year, with our four-star review calling it a "beautiful hymn to the power of the human brain".

The production received two Olivier nominations including Best Revival and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Isis Hainsworth. Stoppard passed away in November 2025 aged 88.

Stoppard's play, about the inhabitants of a country house, two centuries apart, premiered at the National Theatre in 1993. It was first staged at the Duke of York’s in 2009 in David Leveaux’s production with Dan Stevens and Nancy Carroll.

The Old Vic cast included Hainsworth as Thomasina Coverly, Seamus Dillane as Septimus Hodge, Leila Farzad as Hannah Jarvis, and Prasanna Puwanarajah as Bernard Nightingale.

Gabriel Akuwudike, Fiona Button, Angus Cooper, Holly Godliman and Matthew Steer completed the company.

The creative team includes Carrie Cracknell (director), Alex Eales (set design), Suzanne Cave (costume design), Guy Hoare (lighting), Donato Wharton (sound), Ira Mandela Siobhan (movement), and Stuart Earl (composer).

Producer Sonia Friedman said: “Bringing Arcadia to the West End this summer feels less like a revival and more like a responsibility.

"Tom was a great friend, and over more than twenty years as his producer I had the privilege of living closely with his work: watching it evolve, seeing how rigorously, deeply, and mischievously he thought, and how much he cared about every detail, whether it was a new work or a revival. Arcadia, though, always stood apart. It holds so much of what made him extraordinary - its playfulness, precision, wit, romance, and that deep curiosity about how we make sense of the world.

"Coming back to it now, I’m struck all over again by how alive it feels. Its ideas about time, truth, and what we can and can’t know don’t belong to the past, they feel immediate, even urgent. But what moves me most is its humanity: the way it holds intellect and emotion in the same breath, never letting one overshadow the other. That’s Tom.

"This production, set in the intimacy of the Duke of York’s Theatre and led by Carrie Cracknell, captures that balance beautifully. It’s bold, clear-eyed, and full of feeling. For me, it’s not just a return to a great play, but a way of honouring a friendship and a body of work that meant the world to me, and to generations of audiences over the past decades.”

Cast for the West End transfer is to be announced.

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Photo credit: Arcadia at The Old Vic. (Courtesy of production)