Theatre Royal Haymarket Company

The Theatre Royal Haymarket is renowned for wonderful theatre and for playing host to the best actors, writers and directors in its three hundred year history. In 2007, we were delighted to launch a new future for the venue with the establishment of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, incorporating a season of three productions led by an artistic director with a series of events, workshops and one-off performances across the year.

The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company was inspired by our Masterclass initiative, a series of workshops and talks presented by leading directors and actors. We decided to invite one of these directors to become resident for a season and run alongside this, a unique apprentice scheme where aspiring directors and designers were invited to join the director and his/her creative team.

The inaugural season was led by the celebrated theatre and opera director, Jonathan Kent whose season included Wycherley’s The Country Wife, Edward Bond’s The Sea, and Marguerite - a world premiere from the composers of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and Martin Guerre.

Season Two was artistically led by Sean Mathias who directed the acclaimed sell-out production of Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, followed by Samuel Adamson’s adaptation of the Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at Tiffanys. Due to the phenomenal success of Waiting For Godot, Mathias chose to revive his production of Godot, starring Sir Ian McKellen alongside Roger Rees, Matthew Kelly and Ronald Pickup which toured Australia and New Zealand, taking the Haymarket to previously uncharted territories.

We are delighted that our current third season is led by Sir Trevor Nunn, who has so far directed Terence Rattigan's Flare Path with Sienna Miller, James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith, Sir Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Samuel Barnett and Jamie Parker, The Tempest starring Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Lyndurst, and currently James Goldman's The Lion in Winter starring Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley.