Tom Hiddleston will then star opposite Hayley Atwell in a new production of Much Ado About Nothing. The two productions, the first opening in December and the second in February, will both run at the West End’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane and will both be directed by award-winning theatre director Jamie Lloyd. “It is such an honour to be invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to be the first company to present Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in decades. At the final performance Gielgud broke Prospero's staff and pronounced that Shakespeare would never again be performed at the Theatre Royal as it would be ‘lost to musicals’.”“Ever since I owned the Theatre Royal I have been determined to prove him wrong. The Tempest, from December 19 to February 1, 2025; Much Ado About Nothing, from February 19, 2025 to to April 5, 2025, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
