Overview
- Producers announced Wednesday that Hamlet Hail to the Thief will run at the Barbican Theatre from October 31, 2026 through January 23, 2027 with public tickets going on sale June 26.
- Thom Yorke has reworked and orchestrated material from Radiohead’s 2003 album Hail to the Thief for a live onstage soundtrack performed by a company of musicians and actors.
- Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett co-created and co-directed the production, which preserves much of the original creative team and principal cast from sold-out runs at Aviva Studios and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- Named commercial producers include ATC Music Group, Vivek J. Tiwary/TEG+ and Nate Koch, with the Royal Shakespeare Company serving as executive producer and further casting to be announced.
- The show reframes Hamlet as a surveillance-state story that leans on Hail to the Thief’s dystopian politics, and the Barbican’s brutalist space is presented by the creators as a thematic match for the production.