Overview
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane will host a limited run from Sept. 22 to Oct. 3 with Sting playing Jackie White in the new West End staging.
- The production is a reworked version with a new book by Barney Norris, new songs alongside Sting’s catalogue, and a creative team led by producer Karl Sydow.
- The London dates form part of an international tour that has played Amsterdam, Brisbane and Paris and comes before scheduled Metropolitan Opera performances in New York in June.
- In interviews promoting the show Sting linked the play’s focus on shipyard closures to a claim that the loss of manual labour has helped foster toxic strains of modern masculinity.
- High Court filings show an ongoing royalties dispute with former Police bandmates in which Sting has paid more than £500,000, a legal issue that could shape publicity and commercial arrangements for the run.