In a promotion from Viscount Bridgerton to the King of England, Jonathan Bailey returns to the stage in 2025 in Nick Hytner's newest production for The Bridge Theatre. Bailey will star as the titular monarch in Richard II, the first of Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays about the wars of succession during the Middle Ages, otherwise known as the 'Henriad'.

The second play in The Jamie Lloyd Company's much anticipated Shakespeare season at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, join Tom Hiddleston and Haley Atwell as they play the 'merrily warring' will-they-won't-they couple Benedick and Beatrice in the Bard's witty romantic comedy. Much Ado About Nothing reunites the director and Hiddleston following their collaboration on Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 2019, an experience Tom described as "one of the most fulfilling and meaningful experiences of my performing life." Adding "I could not be more thrilled to have been given the opportunity to collaborate with (Lloyd) again, this time on one of Shakespeare's most warm-hearted and joyful plays"

The Globe 2025 summer season brings Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes's take on the Bard's timeless love story Romeo and Juliet - only this time with a Wild West twist. Chaotic saloon fights and wild celebrations spiral into deadly shootouts and ruthless vengeance as a fractured town nears its last stand.

Whilst originally pegged as one of the Bard's tragedies, Cymbeline is far more complex than that, with shades of romance and comedy in this tale of innocence and envy, grasps for power and eventual reconciliation for a dysfunctional royal family, led by an incompetent Queen and her scheming husband The Prince. A gripping tale directed by the Globe-debuting Jennifer Tang.