Bridge Theatre announces INTO THE WOODS and return of immersive A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

London Theatre Company has announced two further productions opening at the Bridge Theatre this year: A Midsummer Night’s Dream from 31 May-23 August 2025 and Into The Woods from 2 December 2025-18 April 2026.

One of The Bridge's biggest hits, the immersive A Midsummer Night's Dream returns this summer, starring JJ Feild (Little Disasters, Austenland, Captain America) as Oberon/Theseus, Susannah Fielding (The Merchant of Venice, This Time with Alan Partridge) as Titania/Hippolyta, Emmanuel Akwafo (For the Black Boys…, Sex Education) as Bottom, and David Moorst (Killing Eve, Blitz) who returns to the role of Puck/Philostrate. Further casting is to be announced.

Nicholas Hytner directs with award winning production design by Bunny Christie, costumes by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Bruno Poet, sound by Paul Arditti, music by Grant Olding, and movement by Arlene Phillips.

A Midsummer Night's Dream was first produced at The Bridge in 2019. Its immersive format -- which allows 400 people to stand close to the action with 670 seats wrapped around -- enabled over 100,000 people to see the production six years ago. It was filmed by NTLive.

A brand-new staging for The Bridge of Sondheim and Lapine's dazzling and moving musical Into The Woods will be helmed by director Jordan Fein and designer Tom Scutt.

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s collaboration -- their second, after Sunday in the Park with George -- brilliantly weaves together four Grimms’ fairy-tales in a story of a baker and his wife on their quest to reverse a curse of childlessness cast upon them by the wicked witch.

This will be its first London production since 2016.

Nicholas Hytner, co-founder of The Bridge, said: "Into The Woods is one of the great achievements of the American stage. Jordan Fein's production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Open Air Theatre last year was a triumph, beautifully staged and overwhelmingly moving, and Tom Scutt has established himself across the world as a designer of rare talent and imagination."

Casting will be announced in due course.

Both Into The Woods and A Midsummer Night’s Dream go on sale to priority members of The Bridge today (25 Feb), with public booking opening on 28 February at 10am here.