Jonathan Bailey to star in RICHARD II at the Bridge Theatre

Photo credit: Jason Bell

London Theatre Company have announced that a brand-new production of Richard II will play from 10 February-10 May 2025 at the Bridge Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton, Netflix; Wicked, Universal Pictures) in the title role.

Richard II is charismatic, eloquent, and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious, and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right to rule but is set on wrecking the country he leads. Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous, and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, in the figure of Henry Bolingbroke, by the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority.

Richard II will be designed by Bob Crowley, with lighting by Bruno Poet, and casting by Robert Sterne.

Tickets go on general sale on 26 June at 10am. For more info, please click here.