London events in May

The 81-year-old theatre legend’s new play is about the titular Jewish quarter of Vienna and follows it from its heyday as a haven for the Jews of Europe to the clampdown of the Nazi regime. 

Artistic director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nadia Fall has written and will also direct this narrative of Tehran life. It's a story of illicit raves and escaping the morality police, which aims to create an alternative view into an often-misunderstood country. 

Poet Derek Walcott's ‘Omeros’ is his landmark work; in it, he reimagines Classical epic the Iliad for a setting on Caribbean island Saint Lucia. 

You want a mash-up of opera, house music and the Orfeus myth? SURE YOU DO. Created by American baritone Nmon Ford, ‘Orfeus’ is set in a dystopian near-future and features creator Ford himself as the eponymous hero, who must save the poet Eurydice from his fascist father, Pluto.

The tearjerking Tony-winner ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ comes to London. The musical concerns the eponymous troubled teen, who writes himself a series of letters to help him cope with a profoundly difficult time in his life, following the tragic death of a school friend.

Check out this revival of the big-hearted, acceptance-preaching, ’60s-homaging musical. It’s being billed as a new production, though fans of the original are unlikely to be disappointed, as it reunites director Jack O’Brie, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, and star Michael Ball. 

Jake Gyllenhaal made his stage debut in London, but has stayed away since. Finally, though, he’s back, reprising his lead role in this recent Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant 1984 musical.