Kim Cattrall, Henry Goodman, Derek Jacobi Set for Chichester Festival’s 50th Anniversary Season

Chichester Festival Theatre has announced plans for its 50th anniversary season.

The theater will revisit Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which was part of its first season in 1962, in a production starring Roger Allam, Dervla Kirwan and Timothy West. Jeremy Herrin will direct the show, March 30-April 28. Penelope Keith will star as Lady Wishfort in William Congreve’s The Way of the World, April 13-May 5. Rachel Kavanaugh will direct.

The world premiere of A Marvellous Year for Plums, by Hugh Whitemore, will run May 11-June 2. Philip Franks will direct. Michael Wynn’s new comedy, Canvas, will be directed by Angus Jackson and run May 18-June 16.

Trevor Nunn will direct a musical revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, June 18-September 1. Stephen Mear will choreograph. Henry Goodman will star in the title role of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, in a translation by George Tabori. Jonathan Church will direct the production, which will play June 29-July 28.

Derek Jacobi will headline a production of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House, July 6- August 25. Richard Clifford will direct. Chichester Festival Youth Theatre will present Noah in a new adaptation by Rachel Barnett, July 27-August 11.

Chichester will present Alan Ayckbourn’s new play Surprises, co-produced with the Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough, August 8-September 8. The theater will also stage a revival of Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, August 10-September 8.

Michael Pennington and Kim Cattrall will play the title roles in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, to run September 7-29. Janet Suzman will direct. The season will conclude with Jonathan Kent’s production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, to run September 21-October 27. Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens will star.

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