The world premiere of *My Neighbour Totoro* triumphed at the 2023 Olivier Awards, winning six categories out of its nine nominations at the ceremony. It’s a good time for the Studio Ghibli stage adaptation, too, as *My Neighbour Totoro* will open in the West End next year, with performances at the [Gillian Lynne Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/gillian-lynne-theatre) from 8 March.

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Based on Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 Studio Ghibli film, *My Neighbour Totoro* will return to London later next year, opening at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

Next year, the [Royal Shakespeare Company’s](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/royal-shakespeare-company) triumphant 2022 stage adaptation of [*My Neighbour Totoro*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25389-my-neighbour-totoro) heads to the West End's [Gillian Lynne Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/gillian-lynne-theatre) for a third run due to enormous popular demand. The show won six Olivier Awards and broke the Barbican’s box office record for the most tickets...

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Studio Ghibli is a renowned Japanese animation film studio founded in 1985. They are known for creating imaginative movies, including *My Neighbour Totoro* and *Spirited Away*.

A stage adaptation of television comedy *Inside No 9* will arrive in the West End next year. The show opens for a 12-week run at Wyndham's Theatre from 18 January 2025.

The TV show's original writers and performers Steve Pemberton (*The Pillowman*) and Reece Shearsmith (*A Very Expensive Poison*) will star in the West End show, titled *Stage/Fright*, which will blend original material with familiar characters from the series. 

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The hit musical comedy *Titanique* has confirmed plans for a West End run later this year. The show is currently performing at Off-Broadway venue the Daryl Roth Theatre.

The musical, which is co-written by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, and Constantine Rousouli, has received critical acclaim and multiple awards since its premiere off Broadway at Asylum Theater in 2022.

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The British writer James Graham is on an incredible run at the moment. He just won the Olivier Award for Best New Play for *Dear England*, a fantastic drama about football manager Gareth Southgate, which enticed new audiences into theatre, and the musical *Tammy Faye*, for which he supplied the book, is opening on Broadway this autumn.

He’s also a prolific screenwriter, with recent hits including the crime series *Sherwood* and the dystopian drama *The Way*. Graham has that rare combination of...

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The bright lights of West End theatres are always appealing, but there are also a number of exciting Off-West End venues in the capital, such as the small but mighty [Bush Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/bush-theatre), which is nestled in west London.

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The acclaimed screen and stage actor Ben Whishaw is back in town, starring in the premiere of Margaret Perry’s *[Bluets](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/39930-bluets)* at the Royal Court. The play is an adaptation of Maggie Nelson’s book and follows someone obsessed with the colour blue – taking in artists like Joni Mitchell and Billie Holiday as they navigate a devastating heartbreak.

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It’s another fantastic year for [Shakespeare plays](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/whats-on/shakespeare) in London, and as the weather (finally!) improves, you can start getting those outdoor shows in the diary, as well as all of the brilliant productions in the West End and beyond.

If you’re after a fresh take on the Bard, you’re definitely in luck. Sir Ian McKellen is already wowing audiences, giving his Falstaff a dynamic new spin in Robert Icke's adaptation of *Henry IV*, *[Player...

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You just can’t beat family when it comes to riveting drama. Perhaps that’s because no one gets under your skin quite like the people you love and who know you best – and who are bonded to you by blood, like it or not. From Greek tragedy through Shakespearean slanging matches and contemporary clans, shows with family drama at their centre have always ruled our stages.

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Enter the homes of these loving but fraught families in West End plays such as *Long Day's Journey Into Night* and musicals like *Back to the Future*.

Get ready for what promises to be the most talked-about play of the year. Hollywood star John Lithgow will play Roald Dahl in a new drama, *[Giant](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/39984-giant)*, which sees the famous author about to release his children’s book *The Witches*, but then rocked by a scandal surrounding anti-Semitic comments he made in an article.

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The Tony and Emmy-winning Hollywood actor is starring in Mark Rosenblatt’s provocative new play *Giant* at the Royal Court in London this autumn.

See the latest West End cast of [*The Lehman Trilogy*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25743-the-lehman-trilogy-tickets) in photos. *The Lehman Trilogy* is at the [Gillian Lynne Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/gillian-lynne-theatre) to 20 May. 

Ben Powers adapts Stefano Massini’s Italian play, *The Lehman Trilogy* play into English. The epic play charts the lives of Henry, Emanuel, and Mayer Lehman, three brothers who form the Lehman Brothers investment bank. After 163 years in business, the company declares bankruptcy, triggering a global financial crisis.

Sam Mendes directs Michael Balogun, Nigel Lindsay, and [Hadley Fraser](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/hadley-fraser). [Discover more about *The Lehman Trilogy* on Broadway and in London.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/top-ten-reasons-to-see-the-lehman-trilogy-in-the-west-end)

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The five-time Tony-winning play returns to the West End for a spring season. 

Italian writer and essayist Stefano Massini's play opened as an Italian-speaking production, with performances in Paris and Milan. Ben Power then adapted the financial drama from Italian to English. British dramaturg Ben Power previously adapted Euripides’s *Medea* and three D. H. Lawrence stories into *Husbands and Sons*.

*The Lehman Trilogy* premiered at the National Theatre in 2018, and later transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre. [You don’t need a finance and mathematics background to understand what happens to the Lehmans](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/the-lehman-trilogy-isnt-all-about-finance-and-mathematics). In a [five-star review of *The Lehman Trilogy* for London Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/review-the-lehman-trilogy-at-the-piccadilly-theatre), our critic said: "The production is epic. The singular alchemy of acting, design and direction in this production is so superb that it must be witnessed."

In 2021, the play transferred to Broadway and won five Tonys, including Best Play, Best Director (for Sam Mendes), and Best Actor (for Simon Russell Beale). Now, *The Lehman Trilogy* returns to London for a limited West End season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

### What is *The Lehman Trilogy* about?

What happened to the Lehman brothers? It all starts in 1844, when Henry Lehman, a young man from Bavaria with a big dream, emigrated to New York. With the help of his two brothers, Emanuel and Mayer, the Lehman Brothers bank is born. 

From here, audiences watch a whistlestop tour of 163 years of banking history through three generations of the family, following the establishment of the bank, and its doomed fate which led to the biggest global financial collapse in history, affecting each and every one of us.


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You win some, you lose some. But the Lehmans lost everything. Enjoy a financial rollercoaster in this sweeping play. After Tony and Olivier wins, *The Lehman Trilogy* returns to the West End in 2023. Count your coins. 

*The Lehman Trilogy* is a theatrical masterpiece, unlike anything you’ve experienced on stage. From Es Devlin’s award-winning set to Jon Clark’s incredible lighting design, and Nick Powell’s live piano score, *The Lehman Trilogy* is a feat of dynamic storytelling. This is an epic family drama at its finest. 

Even though hundreds of characters appear in the generational story, only three actors appear onstage. The performers portray everyone from the brothers’ wives to babies – all while wearing three-piece suits. Get ready for a first-rate trio of performers giving a proper masterclass in their craft. 

Ben Power’s adaptation zips through all the major events of 200 years of history in a theatrical masterclass. By the end of *The Lehman Trilogy*, you will have experienced a story about immigration, family, capitalism, and the emotional and literal costs of pursuing the American Dream. 

## What to Watch For:

- Want to read more about *The Lehman Trilogy* play before seeing it on stage? Richard Dixon translated Stefano Massini’s 2016 novel, *Qualcosa sui Lehman*, (*The Lehman Trilogy*) into English in 2020.
- Even though the Lehman Brothers investment firm no longer exists, some of the original Lehman Brothers office buildings are still standing. 7 West 54th Street — the Phillip Lehman residence — now holds New York landmark status. 
- In addition to being an acclaimed theatre director, Sam Mendes has directed several award-winning films, including *American Beauty, Skyfall,* and *1917*. When you’re watching *The Lehman Trilogy* on stage, you’ll feel as if you’re watching an epic film unfold.
- Although the original play is in Italian, *The Lehman Trilogy* premiered at Comédie de Saint-Étienne in France, before an eventual Italian staging at Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
- Ben Power’s adaptation of Stefano Massini’s *The Lehman Trilogy* in London packs 163 years of family history into a thrilling three and a half hours. 

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The production contains moments and themes that some people may find distressing. This includes the non-graphic depiction of a suicide and mentions of suicide. There is also infrequent mention of death, war, and slavery.


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The fifth time furthers the charmed life of [*The Lehman Trilogy*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25743-the-lehman-trilogy-tickets), the mightily moving play that premiered at the National Theatre in July 2018. The show has since twice crossed the Atlantic, winning five Tony Awards last June on the occasion of its Broadway premiere.

And here it is back in the West End for a first showing since the pandemic, equipped with a new cast that lands the play differently from the astonishing trio I saw twice before, but with a cumulative power that acquires a weight all its own.

A tale of both the tenacious grasp and collapse of capitalism refracted across 164 turbulent years, Ben Power’s remarkable compression of Stefano Massini’s five-hour original continues to astonish on a third viewing. And, truly, no praise is too high for Sam Mendes’s production and an assemblage of design creatives that reveals Es Devlin’s sets, Jon Clark’s lighting, and Luke Halls’s video work as star turns all their own. My companion for the play, a newcomer to the show, gasped in wonder at the start, and the dazzle is sustained across 3.5 hours even as the terrain traversed by the show grows ever darker.

I confess to feeling vaguely proprietary about a first cast that united Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles, and Adam Godley in a sort of symbiotic commitment to storytelling that had much to do with their roles in helping shape a sprawling, diffuse text into a complete theatrical experience, not merely a beautifully appointed history lesson.

But though aspects of those originators’ protean star turns go unequaled here, the engaging trio of Nigel Lindsay, Michael Balogun, and Hadley Fraser locate an underlying fury to the narrative leading to Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse that feels appropriate to the apocalypse described. You watch an initially enchanting America come to all but engorge its citizenry, as the story moves from one of dynastic renewal to a day of reckoning within the banking community whose fallout is felt still: The resulting detritus provides a visual frame to a propulsive narrative that manages to be both intimate and epic at once.

We first see Lindsay’s Henry Lehman newly arrive in wonder on American shores. Before long he is making his way in the cotton industry in Alabama, well before the items sold, traded, and speculated upon shift to coffee and, of course, toward cold hard cash in all its heady glory.

Balogun plays the volatile middle brother Emanuel (born Mendel), with Fraser as Mayer Lehman, the youngest brother, who is less sweetly goofy than was the inimitable Godley.

I doubt anyone will do the twist, near the end, with quite the sublimely silly grace achieved by Godley, though the earthier Fraser takes his own joy in the shape-shifting required: I smiled at the sight of him as a demure Pauline Sondheim, wife of Emanuel, which seems an apt fit for Fraser, given that this actor’s gifted wife, Rosalie Craig, was the first female Bobby in *Company*, from that later Sondheim known as Stephen.

The actors shift gender and age as required, often stepping outside the family to embody the worlds of religion and business. That's to say a senior rabbi one minute (Lindsay nails that one) or a hard-nosed representative of a financial climate that has scant time for blood ties the next, Devlin’s turntable set scrawled upon throughout as the characters’ fortunes and names change. (The emphasis on Mayer as the “potato” of the three brothers outstays its comic welcome.)

Told in three acts, each of which comes with a title, Mendes’s sleek staging has been overseen for the West End by Zoe Ford Burnett, who has presumably encouraged the cast to best energise the material as they see fit. Perhaps our own straitened circumstances just now account for an undertow of savagery – from Balogun, in particular – that forestalls cutesiness and keeps the whirligig of performative theatrics on view before us from ever seeming like a stunt.

Nick Powell’s score, played live by Yshani Perinpanayagam, reinforces the sense that we’re watching a symphony of sorts in play form that exerts a baleful power all its own. (I found myself wondering what kind of opera Shostakovich might have fashioned from this material.) And though the makeshift chalkboard that is the shell of the set gets wiped clean, *The Lehman Trilogy* itself builds to an overwhelming conclusion that makes something both heroic and hurtful out of the merciless onward march of history. These brothers and their progeny could be any of us or, at the very least, anyone who has supped with success only to know that life swings in roundabouts and that most tightrope walkers - a key image in the play - at some point or another will sustain a fall.

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Read our four-star review of Hadley Fraser in *The Lehman Trilogy*, now playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre through 20 May.

Born in 1980 in Windsor, Hadley Fraser is a West End actor. Fraser returns to the West End to star in *The Lehman Trilogy* at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham University, Fraser then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music. Following his postgraduate studies, Fraser made his West End debut as Marius in *Les Misérables*, alongside Carmen Cusack and Rosemary Ashe. Following *Les Misérables*, he then played Curly in *Peter Pan* and Frederic in *The Pirates of Penzance*, both at the Savoy Theatre.

In 2006, Fraser made his Broadway debut in *The Pirate Queen*. He played Tiernan, a young sailor who is in love with Grace, played by Stephanie J. Block. The musical ran on Broadway for two months. [Read *The Pirate Queen* New York reviews.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/the-pirate-queen)

Shortly after, Fraser returned to his *Les Misérables* roots, playing Grantaire in the 25th anniversary concert at the O2 Arena. Fraser starred alongside Ramin Karimloo, [Samantha Barks](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/samantha-barks), and Alfie Boe. He continued the concert trend by playing Raoul in *The Phantom of the Opera*, once again alongside Karimloo as The Phantom, and Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae.

In 2011, Fraser returned to *Les Misérables* in the West End, taking over the role of Javert for a year. He then played the Army General of the National Guard in the *Les Misérables* film.

In 2013, he then starred in a regional production of *The Pajama Game* in Chichester. The following year, he then found a London home at the Donmar Warehouse: *Coriolanus* starring Tom Hiddleston, *City of Angels* directed by Josie Rourke, and *The Vote* in 2015.

Fraser was then a part of Kenneth Branagh’s season of plays at the Garrick Theatre, starring in *The Winter’s Tale* and *Harlequinade*. [Read our *Harlequinade* review on London Theatre.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/harliquinade-all-on-her-own) He then returned to the Donmar Warehouse, playing Dunois in *Saint Joan.*, and went back to the Garrick Theatre for *Young Frankenstein.* 

Fraser’s recent theatre credits include *The Antipodes* at the National Theatre, the original cast of *2:22 A Ghost Story* alongside [Lily Allen](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/lily-allen), and a *Chess* concert. He will return to the West End to star in *The Lehman Trilogy* at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

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The Gillian Lynne Theatre originally opened in 1847 as the Mogul Music Hall. From 1919 to 1965, it was named the Winter Garden Theatre, but after renovations, the theatre opened as the New London Theatre in 1973. 

The theatre housed Andrew Lloyd Webber’s *Cats*, which was the longest-running musical in West End history when it closed in 2002.  It was also used as a television studio, and was the home of Masters Snooker for two years.

Since the closure of *Cats*, the theatre has hosted productions of Lloyd Webber’s *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat*, *School of Rock*, and *Cinderella*.

In 2018, Andrew Lloyd Webber announced the theatre would be renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre, the first London theatre to be named after a woman. Lynne worked on productions with the English National Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company and many West End and Broadway shows. She collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on *Cats, The Phantom of the Opera* and *Aspects of Love.* 

## Gillian Lynne Theatre Seating Information

The Gillian Lynne Theatre features a thrust stage that juts into the auditorium. Seats are on three sides of the auditorium. 

Some seats offer side views of the action on stage. But every seat guarantees a view that's close to the action.

Photos released: 'The Lehman Trilogy’ starring Hadley Fraser

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