As the theatre heads into its second year in its brand-new home at Islington Square, the exciting season includes a number of brand new plays and musicals.
Artwork for King's Head Theatre 2025 Spring Season.
The King's Head Theatre has announced its 2025 Spring Season which will run from January - August 2025.
Kicking off the season is FIREBIRD. Written by Richard Hough and Directed by Owen Lewis, the show centres on the story of a young soldier and fighter pilot during the Cold War. Based on Sergey Fetisov's memoir Firebird: The Story of Roman, it will follow them as they embark on a clandestine affair in Soviet-occupied Estonia.
It is being adapted for the stage for the first time following an acclaimed film by Peeter Rebene and Tom Prior in 2021. FIREBIRD will run from 9 January - 9 February 2025.
As part of the new season at the King's Head Theatre, three brand new full-length musicals will perform.
By Liesl Wilke and Andy March, Stalled: A New Musical heads to London following a full reading on Broadway and workshop production in LA. Now embarking on a world premiere from 13 February, the production is set in a bougie-ass Seattle ladies' room where we meet a frazzled mother, a neurodivergent daughter, a young nonbinary poet and a terrified queer computer scientist.
Stalled: A New Musical will run from 13 February - 23 March.
The second is King of Pangea, a breakout hit with audiences at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's New Musicals Festival. With book, music and lyrics by Martin Storrow; it follows Christopher Crow who faces a tragic loss and escapes to the only place that makes sense - Pangea, the imaginary island of his childhood. Based on the author's authentic experience, this promises to be a wholly original and soul-stirring folk musical that celebrates the extraordinary power of hope.
King of Pangea will run from 7 June - 6 July.
The last of the full-length musicals is Tom Ford & Alex Syiek's The Show on the Roof. This show dramatises a series of investigations and arrests of a queer men in Boise, Idaho back in the 1950s. This new musical will shine a light on a pivotal yet overlooked chapter of LGBTQ+ history.
The Show on the Roof will run from 11 July - 16 August.
Former Artistic Director Hannah Price is making her debut in the new building with Rosie Day's (This Is Not A) Happy Room. A new dark comedy, it follows the Hendersons, a happily dysfunctional family who are reuniting for their father's fourth wedding. However, when he dies in a car accident on the way there, the family have to rapidly switch the wedding to a funeral, which unearths secrets and confessions.
(This Is Not A) Happy Room will run from 26 March - 27 April.
Then there's Naomi Westerman's Puppy, a play which explores the boundaries of female and queer sexuality. Based on the controversial 2015 pornography legislation, it follows two women who set up their own feminist porn company and find themselves in a battle for their rights.
Puppy will run from 1-27 April.
Finally comes The Gang of Three. From leading play-writing duo Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky is a story which follows Labour leader Harold Wilson's shock resignation as Prime Minister in 1976 and the attempt by three feuding political giants to replace him. The Gang of Three tells the story of how their fractured friendships and bitter rivalries instead ushered in eighteen years of Tory Rule.
The Gang of Three will run from 30 April - 1 June.
With so much on offer to come in 2025, don't forget there's also a brand-new pantomime this year. Islington's only pantomime Cinderella which will run from 30 November - 5 January.
