- Venue Marylebone Theatre, London
- Performance dates Booking to 29 November 2025
- Running time 2 hours 20 minutes (including interval)
- Age guidelines 12+
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Anna Ziegler’s award-winning new play The Wanderers gets its UK premiere at Marylebone Theatre in London.
Written by award-winning playwright Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51) and directed by Ukrainian-born, award-winning director Igor Golyak (Our Class), The Wanderers comes to London following a successful Off-Broadway run at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York.
The production will star Katerina Tannenbaum (And Just Like That, Gossip Girl), Paksie Vernon (People, Places and Things), and Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia).
In The Wanderers, two narratives intertwine in a story about longing, connection, and the invisible threads that bind us across generations.
The Wanderers is playing at Marylebone Theatre from 17 October to 29 November 2025.

Abe, a celebrated writer with a restless spirit and open disdain for religion—including his own. He married to Sophie, a fellow writer who is half Black and half Jewish. Her first book was overlooked, and she doubts she has another in her—Abe has his doubts too. Their marriage, while rooted in love, is marked by tension, quiet rivalry, and unresolved discontent.
Then an unexpected email from a movie star sets Abe on a flirtatious, increasingly risky journey. What starts as curiosity spirals into something deeper—an unravelling of long-buried truths, threatening his marriage, his sense of self, and the life he thought he built.
Meanwhile, 40 years earlier, Esther and Schmuli are shy young Orthodox Jews entering an arranged marriage after only one meeting. Esther finds herself suffocated by the strictures of her ultra-religious world. With quiet courage, she escapes—with her third child—and begins a new, uncertain life.
These two narratives intertwine in The Wanderers, a story about longing, connection, and the invisible threads that bind us across generations. Can we ever truly escape the inheritance of our past?
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Performance Information
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- Group Bookings For groups of 10+ enquire here
Stars and Creatives
Who is in the cast of The Wanderers?
Starring Katerina Tannenbaum as Esther, Paksie Vernon as Sophie, and Anna Popplewell as Julia Cheever
Also stars Alexander Forsyth as Abe and Eddie Toll as Schmuli
Who are the creative team of The Wanderers?
- Written by Anna Ziegler
- Directed by Igor Golyak
- Set design by Jan Pappelbaum
- Costume design by Sasha Ageeva
- Lighting design by Alex Musgrave
- Composer Anna Drubich
- Sound design by Julian Starr
- Casting by Lucy Casson with Harry Armytage
- Production Manager: The Production Office
- General Manager: Alex Turner
- Produced by Sarig Peker of Grapevine Shoot Productions & Keren Misgav of Norel Productions
Venue Information
Marylebone Theatre , Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road , London, NW1 6XT
Nearest Tube or Train: Baker Street (underground), London Marylebone (train)
Nearest Buses: 13, 113, 139, 189, 274, N113
Critics' reviews of The Wanderers
★★★★ "A well-crafted piece of work, acted with real conviction" - Evening Standard
★★★★ "Ziegler is at the top of her game here... elegant, amusing but raw when it needs to be" - What's On Stage
● "Thoughtful off-Broadway smash... brimming with ideas that reward reflection" - TimeOut
● "The play delves into some fascinating questions" - The Stage
● "Innovative staging provides intriguing background to tale of two couples struggling with marriage, feminism and Jewishness" - Jewish News
● "Popplewell is lovely as famous actor, Julia. So too is Katerina Tannenbaum" - The Spy in the Stalls



















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