RSC to Present Matilda, Hamlet, et al. in 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company will premiere a new musical based on Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel Matilda at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Courtyard Theatre in late 2010. The production, to be directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus, will have a book by playwright Dennis Kelly and music and lyrics by Australian comedian Tim Minchin.

The 2010 Stratford season will also include productions of Hamlet, directed by Tarell Alvin McCraney; The Comedy of Errors, directed by Paul Hunter; King Lear, directed by David Farr; Romeo and Juliet, directed by Rupert Goold; Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Michael Boyd; and Morte D’Arthur, in a new adaptation by Mike Poulton, directed by Gregory Doran.

As previously reported, the company’s upcoming staging of Twelfth Night will play the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre, December 19-February 27, after its run at Stratford’s Courtyard Theatre, October 15-November 21. The production, which is directed by Gregory Doran and designed by Robert Jones, features Richard Wilson, Nancy Carroll, Alexandra Gilbreath, Sam Alexander, James Fleet, Richard McCabe, Pamela Nomvete, Simeon Moore, Jo Stone-Fewings, and Miltos Yerolemou.

For more information, visit www.whatsonstage.com.