An award-winning Australian stage adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl is coming to London in 2026.
Yentl will play the Marylebone Theatre in London from 6 March to 12 April 2026.
Produced by Kadimah Yiddish Theatre, this bilingual staging reimagines Isaac Bashevis Singer’s revolutionary tale from a contemporary viewpoint, and promises to be a “vivid celebration of Yiddish culture”.
This production of Yentl is the first significant new stage adaptation since the 1975 Broadway play and Barbra Streisand’s 1983 film. It premiered at Arts Centre Melbourne in 2022, returning in 2024 and then transferring to Sydney Opera House in 2024.
Three members of the original Australian cast will appear in the London season, with Amy Hack as Yentl, Genevieve Kingsford as Hodes, and Evelyn Krape as The Figure, joined by Kandice Joy as understudy Yentl/Hodes. Further casting is to be announced.
The original Australian creative team are reuniting for the project, with director and co-writer Gary Abrahams, co-writers Galit Klas and Elise Hearst, set and costume designer Dann Barber, lighting designer Rachel Burke, and original composer and sound designer Max Lyandvert. Yiddish translation is by Professor Rivke Margolis.
Set in an 1870s Polish shtetl, it follows a young woman who, forbidden by Orthodox law from studying Jewish scripture, disguises herself as a man and steps into a world alive with possibility and conflict. As her search for knowledge deepens, faith, gender, desire and tradition collide — propelling her toward a destiny that challenges every boundary.
Director and co-writer Gary Abrahams said in a statement: “This isn’t Yentl as you know it. This production reclaims Isaac Bashevis Singer’s original Yiddish short story and reconnects it with its darker and more transgressive roots. Singer’s spirituality sings throughout, conjuring a world full of dybbuks, demons and ghosts. We are thrilled to have our international premiere in London, a city whose artists, playwrights and directors have been hugely influential to my own work.”
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre (KYT) is led by Artistic Director Evelyn Krape and Executive Director Gary Abrahams.
Yentl is presented and managed in London by Wild Yak Productions (The Mongol Khan; What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank) in association with Counterminers CIC.
Yentl is playing at the Marylebone Theatre in London from 6 March to 12 April 2026.
More about tickets to YENTL at Marylebone Theatre London
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