The Talented Mr Ripley stage production announces new tour prior to the West End

Patricia Highsmith’s iconic psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley is getting a new stage tour, ahead of a planned West End run.

The new production is adapted and directed by award-winner Mark Leipacher (Wings of Desire, Mary Stuart), and was previously produced by Northern Stage.

The show will start its tour at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre on 4 September, and then visit Edinburgh, Birmingham, Woking, Oxford, Brighton, Bristol, London Richmond, and Salford, with further dates to be announced. See dates and booking info.

Details about casting are to be announced.

Joining Mark Leipacher in the creative team are set and costume design by Holly Piggott (Fleabag, Wyndham’s Theatre) with associate set and costume design by Ellen Farrell, lighting design by Zeynep Kepekli (The Little Mermaid, Bristol Old Vic), sound design by Max Pappenheim (The Night of the Iguana, Noel Coward Theatre) and casting by Marc Frankum CDG (The Woman in Black, Fortune Theatre).

The Talented Mr Ripley is a The Faction production, produced by Jack Maple and Thomas Hopkins.

Patricia Highsmith’s novel was turned into a successful 1999 movie by Anthony Minghella, starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The book was also recently adapted for acclaimed Netflix series Ripley starring Andrew Scott.

The Talented Mr Ripley is set in a world of deception, desire, and deadly ambition. Tom Ripley is a nobody — scraping by in New York, forging signatures, telling little white lies — until a chance encounter changes everything. When a wealthy stranger offers him an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy to bring home his wayward son, Dickie Greenleaf, Tom leaps at the opportunity.

But in the sun-drenched glamour of 1950s Italy, surrounded by shimmering waters and whispered secrets, Tom is seduced by the life Dickie leads — the freedom, the wealth, the effortless charm. Fascination turns to obsession, and as his grip tightens on Dickie’s world, the lines between truth and deception begin to blur. What starts as an innocent opportunity, spirals into a chilling game of lies, identity theft, and murder.

The Talented Mr Ripley is touring in autumn 2025, including London’s Richmond Theatre from 10 to 15 November 2025.

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