New season stars Tamzin Outhwaite, David Threlfall, Daniel Cerqueira, Arinzé Kene & more
Directors include Nadia Fall, Omar Elerian, Jordan Fein, Alexander Zeldin & more
The Young Vic in London has announced its new season for 2025 to 2026, the first under its new artistic director and CEO Nadia Fall.
Opening the season, Nadia Fall will direct Tamzin Outhwaite (Abigail’s Party) and Daniel Cerqueira (A Gentleman in Moscow) in Joe Orton’s queer cult classic Entertaining Mr Sloane.
Orton’s dark, shocking comedy is playing at the Young Vic from 15 September to 8 November 2025.
Pulitzer and Tony-nominated play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph is getting its European premiere at the Young Vic, from 2 December 2025 to 31 January 2026.
This high-octane, funny and moving look at the futility of war is directed by Omar Elerian (Rhinoceros), and stars Olivier and BAFTA award-winner David Threlfall (Hangmen), Olivier Award-nominee Arinzé Kene (Misty), Ammar Haj Ahmad (The Jungle) and Hala Omran (I Medea).
A new production of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass is coming to the Young Vic in 2026, directed by Jordan Fein (Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, Oklahoma!).
Fein’s new production of this rarely performed Arthur Miller play, set in Brooklyn in 1938 and written in response to the rise of fascism in Europe, is playing at the Young Vic from 21 February to 18 April 2026.
In Spring 2026, award-winning writer and director Alexander Zeldin brings his new play Care to the Young Vic.
Care follows Zeldin’s popular ‘Inequalities’ trilogy of LOVE, The Confessions, and The Other Place, as he makes his Young Vic debut with a play about the elusive connection between loss and rebirth.
Care will run from 11 May to 11 July 2026.
In the Young Vic’s Maria Studio, highlights include an intimate and rousing new musical experience Ohio, from Obie Award-winning duo Abigail and Shaun Bengson (The Bengsons) and directed by Caitlin Sullivan.
Also, theatre/XR director Sacha Wares and editor of Disability News Service John Pring bring the award-winning Museum of Austerity to the Young Vic; and Sophie Swithinbank (Bacon), winner of the 2023 Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award and the Sonia Friedman Productions Prize for Best Play, will present the world premiere of her urgent new play Sting directed by Nancy Medina (A Good House).
This season will also see The JMK Award return to the Young Vic, offering an early career director the opportunity to direct a full-scale professional play in the Young Vic’s Maria Studio. Applications for the Award will open in autumn 2025.
Nadia Fall, Artistic Director and CEO of the Young Vic said in a statement: “Vivid stories are the key to this season. We have seven wildly different works across our Main House and The Maria Studio Theatre, which journey from the shady underbelly of the London suburbs to the chaos of Baghdad after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. We will time travel to Brooklyn in 1938 where fascism is on the rise in Europe, on to a residential care home for a tender and surprisingly joyful look at life in our winter years, before returning to the streets of our metropolis for an eerily modern tale involving misogyny within the MET Police. Alongside the shows in our Main House, we are delighted to be cracking open our studio theatres this season for new forms and voices. Some of the most arresting theatre I have ever experienced was in the Maria and Clare spaces; productions which have stayed with me over the years. Studio theatres can conjure an immersive and potent connection with an audience, achieving a close up and unparalleled intimacy. I can’t wait to share this work with our audience. It’s a season that invites us to hold a mirror up to ourselves and see the unflinching truth about who we really are. Behind closed doors, beyond curated online profiles, and painted smiles: it’s an interrogation of who we are, at our core.”
Currently playing at the Young Vic is Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree, until 24 May 2025.
Following a successful season at the Old Vic this year, James Graham’s new play Punch is transferring into the West End, running at the Apollo Theatre from 22 September to 29 November 2025.
Nadia Fall breaks down her new Young Vic season
New artistic director and CEO of The Young Vic, Nadia Fall, writes about her new season, show by show.
Entertaining Mr Sloane
“I’m so excited to be directing Joe Orton’s audacious cult-classic Entertaining Mr Sloane. I was particularly drawn to the way Orton calls us all out, in a world where humankind is demonstrating a scarcity of both humanity and kindness. Orton’s dark play pokes fun at our incessant dog eat dog nature and still remains downright shocking, sixty-two years after it was first written.”
Ohio
“Ohio is autobiographical gig-theatre at its best, brought to us by the connoisseurs of platforming fresh talent Francesca Moody Productions. The piece sees real-life husband and wife The Bengsons tell their story of being raised in the church and then losing faith, it explores living with congenital hearing loss as a musician. The soulful folk music is woven with the storytelling. It’s a magical tonic of a show.”
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
“The European premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is an adrenaline shot – a striking and imaginative commentary on war. With director Omar Elerian at the helm we have a dexterous navigator of the political and the poetic.”
Museum of Austerity
“Museum of Austerity is the creation of master craftswoman Sacha Wares together with John Pring, Founder of Disability News Service. An installation that unlocks real-life testimonials from people who have lost disabled family members due to changes to the benefit system. The multitude of stories appear as audiences move around the space, it’s an emotional and necessary work.”
Broken Glass
“Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass feels achingly prescient. Miller examines how world events, with the rise of hate and fascism, can infiltrate and impact our psyche, our relationships and our bodies. It’s a beautiful study of marriage and intimacy, of connection and the fractures between couples over time. Director Jordan Fein is an exciting talent and I can’t wait to see his modern take on this powerful play.”
CARE
“CARE from true auteur Alexander Zeldin, is a finely drawn and disarmingly recognisable family portrait where a grandmother has no choice but to live in a care home. Care looks at ageing and life in a delicately, affecting yet uplifting way.”
Sting
“Sting is a riveting new play by Sophie Swithinbank which follows a young woman, Ash, who at first glance seems to be her own worst enemy. As the play unfolds, we see there are darker forces deliberately working to undo her. The story exposes a disturbing misogyny within the police force. Sophie is a young writer with a deliciously witty and disconcerting voice. Nancy Medina will be directing Sting and the partnership of these two women promises to be dynamite.”
JMK Award
“I am also delighted to announce as part of my inaugural season the return of the JMK Award for emerging Directors to the Young Vic. We have long been known as a directors theatre and this award gives young directors time and space to practice and experiment, but also, most importantly, to direct!”
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