Into The Woods
Overview of the production
The Olivier award-winning Best Musical Revival, fresh from a critically acclaimed run at the Bridge Theatre, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “stunning” (The Times) Into The Woods transfers to the West End this September.
Directed by Jordan Fein (Fiddler on the Roof), with set and costume designed by Tom Scutt (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club), this joyful, witty and beautiful new production has been hailed as “a triumphant musical mashup of fairytales” (The Standard). Kate Fleetwood also returns to the production to reprise her celebrated
performance as the Witch.
We all know how the story begins. But what happens after it ends?
Once upon a time…
The Baker and his wife. A Witch with a curse. A boy and his cow. A girl in a red
cloak. A maiden with long flowing hair. A servant covered in cinders. All journey deep
into the dark woods.
To sell the cow
To visit the mother
To see the king
To lift the spell
As the adventure unfolds and paths entwine, wishes are made, slippers are lost, beanstalks take flight and new friendships are forged – revealing that life beyond ‘Happily ever after’ can still be full of magic, even when there’s darkness.
Step into the woods this September. But watch out for the wolf.
Opening at the Noël Coward Theatre for a strictly limited run from 22 September.
Into The Woods is presented by London Theatre Company in association with Jamie Wilson Productions.
General Information
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
2 hours 40 minutes (approx)
Additional content
Cast
Valda Aviks
She/Her
THEATRE includes Titanic The Musical on UK tour; The Addams Family Musical original UK tour (as Grandma Addams); Ella in Cinderella the Musical at the Nuffield, Southampton; Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in the West End; Once in Dublin and in the West End; Sweeney Todd at Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End; On the Twentieth Century at the Union; Into the Woods at Regent’s Park Open Air; The Full Monty at the English Theatre, Frankfurt; Mary Poppins on UK tour; Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at the English Theatre, Vienna; Caroline or Change and Jerry Springer – The Opera (also West End and UK tour) at the National Theatre; Sink or Swim on UK tour; Florence Foster Jenkins in When Florence Met Isadora and La Goulue in La Goulue of the Moulin Rouge at the Rosemary Branch, Islington; The Witches of Eastwick at Drury Lane; Tanz der Vampire at Raimund Theatre, Vienna; Beauty and the Beast in the West End; Sweeney Todd at Leicester Haymarket; and Oliver!, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and Cats in the West End.
TELEVISION & FILM include You Had To Be There, The Trip, Doctor Who, Bad Penny, Little Britain, Words of Love, and Nightbreed.
September 2025
Geoffrey Aymer
THEATRE includes Hamlet and The Taxidermist’s Daughter at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Crucible at Sheffield Crucible; Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Wizard of Oz at Curve, Leicester and the London Palladium; Clutch at the Bush; Jitney at the Old Vic, for Headlong and at Leeds Playhouse; Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall; GHBoy at Charing Cross; Apollo 13: The Dark Side Of The Moon for Original Theatre Online Production; Two Trains Running for ETT on UK tour; The Color Purple at Leicester Curve and Birmingham Hippodrome; Robin Hood and the Arrow of Destiny at Theatre Peckham; The Plague at the Arcola; Driving Miss Daisy at Frinton Summer and Canal Cafe; The Importance of Being Earnest for Original Theatre UK tour; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Young Vic; To Kill a Mockingbird at Regent’s Park Open Air, on UK tour and at the Barbican; MacBeth and The Lightning Child at Shakespeare’s Globe; Neighbors at the Nuffield, Southampton; Angel House for Eclipse UK tour; and The Big Life in the West End;
STAGE WRITING includes Alice In Wonderland, Pan!, Rapunzel, Scroogelicious, Men-TALL, and The Wonderful all for Theatre Peckham; Anansi and the Magic Mirror for Talawa; The Oddest Couple for Theatre Royal Stratford East, and What A Wonderful World for Blue Elephant.
TELEVISION includes Casualty, Mr Winner, Guerrilla, EastEnders, The A Force, and The Real McCoy.
FILM includes Wicked, Sket and RagTag.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Kate Fleetwood
THEATRE includes My Master Builder and A View from the Bridge in the West End; 101 Dalmatians at Regent’s Park Open Air; Absolute Hell, Ugly Lies the Bone, Kind Lear, London Road (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical), and Love’s Labour’s Lost at the National Theatre; Bug for Found 111; Medea at the Almeida; High Society at the Old Vic; Life is a Dream and Hecuba at the Donmar Warehouse; Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre, West End and Broadway (Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role); The Winter’s Tale and Pericles for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Othello at Northampton Theatre Royal; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bristol Old Vic.
TELEVISION includes Frauds, Such Brave Girls, Big Mood, Mary and George, Rain Dogs, The Wheel of Time, Fate, The Winx Club Saga, Brave New World, Victoria, Harlots, War and Peace, The People Next Door, The Widower, Way to Go, Touch of Cloth, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hustle, and After Thomas.
FILM includes Scoop, Choose or Die, Beirut, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, London Road, Philomena, Les Miserables, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Macbeth, The Golden Age, 77 Beds, Vanity Fair, A Changed Man, and Beautiful People.
September 2025
Jo Foster
They/Them
THEATRE includes Four Play at the King’s Head; The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse; Why Am I So Single (also Sadler’s Wells) and & Juliet in the West End; Just for One Day at the Old Vic; Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air; Hex at the National Theatre; and Rent at Hope Mill.
September 2025
Jennifer Hepburn
She/Her
THEATRE includes Opening Night and Mamma Mia! in the West End; Corbin: The Musical at Waterloo East; Van Winkle: A Folk Musical at The Other Palace; Taboo at Brixton Club House; Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2; A Tale of Two Cities at Charing Cross and Upstairs at the Gatehouse; Anything Goes in New York; Les Misérables in the West End; Cats on 25th Anniversary tour; Jekyll and Hyde UK tour; The Buccaneer at the Finborough; and workshops for Moonshadow and Waterbabies.
RECORDINGS include her debut album Nylon.
September 2025
Hana Ichijo
TRAINING Arts Educational School.
THEATRE includes The Producers and The Baker’s Wife at Menier Chocolate Factory; A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic; The Sound of Music at Chichester Festival Theatre; George Takei’s Allegiance at the Charing Cross; Anyone Can Whistle at Southwark Playhouse; and Little Women at The Park.
September 2025
Julie Jupp
THEATRE includes A Christmas Carol, American Clock, and Groundhog Day at the Old Vic; La Cage aux Folles, The Card, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park Open Air; Man of La Mancha at the Coliseum; Richard III at Trafalgar Studios; Urinetown, Merrily We Roll Along and Wonderful Town in the West End; Road Show at the Menier Chocolate Factory; The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows and The Red Balloon at Birmingham Rep; A Boston Marriage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Mikado at the Stephen Joseph, Scarborough; The Good Soul of Szechuan, Company, Assassins, The Ghosts of Scrooge and Goodnight Mr Tom at the Library, Manchester; Sunshine on Leith at Dundee Rep; Turandot at Hampstead; Bad Girls in the West End and West Yorkshire Playhouse; The Pirates of Penzance at the Orange Tree; Abigail’s Party and Company at the Northcott, Exeter; Jamaica Inn, Sweeney Todd, The Snow Queen, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, and The Pirates of Penzance at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Alice in Wonderland at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Bat Boy! in the West End and West Yorkshire Playhouse; Is There Life After High School at the Bridewell; Sweeney Todd at the New Wolsey, Ipswich; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Kes! at Bolton Octagon; Blithe Spirit and Gypsy at Cheltenham Everyman; Honk! at the Watermill, Newbury; A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine for Borderline Theatre; and Girlfriends at the Playhouse.
TELEVISION includes Call the Midwife, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Friday Night Dinner, Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders, and The Bill.
FILM includes Disenchanted, Topsy Turvy and Tree of Hands.
September 2025
Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson
She/Her
TRAINING Arts Educational Schools.
THEATRE includes Identical at Nottingham Playhouse and The Lowry; Pippin at Charing Cross; The Boyfriend at Menier Chocolate Factory; 42nd Street at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Dorian at Southwark Playhouse; and Heathers workshop at The Other Palace.
FILM includes Cats.
September 2025
Gracie McGonigal
She/Her
TRAINING The Brit School.
THEATRE includes Fan Girls and Aladdin at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Little Big Things at Soho Place; The Crucible at the National Theatre and in the West End; Cinderella at Theatre Royal Stratford East; The Young Foxes at the Young Vic.
FILM & TELEVISION includes Bridgerton, Father Brown and The Power.
September 2025
Jacob Fowler
He/Him
TRAINING Trinity Laban.
THEATRE includes The Addams Family on UK tour (as Lucas Beineke); Heathers the Musical on UK tour and at The Other Palace (as J.D.); [title of show] and Before After at Southwark Playhouse; Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Hope Mill Theatre; Dreamboats and Petticoats: Bringing on Back the Good Times on UK tour; Vanara at Hackney Empire; and In Pieces at the Turbine.
CONCERTS include his debut solo show Jacob Fowler: Direct from London at The Green Room 42, New York; Cool Rider at the London Palladium; Jacob Fowler: Intimate and Live at the Crazy Coqs; Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize at Hackney Empire; and Kings of Broadway at the Palace.
TELEVISION includes Little Mix: The Search, which he won with his band ‘Since September’, who subsequently supported Little Mix on their 2022 UK arena tour, Confetti.
RECORDINGS include three singles as part of Since September: Let You Go, 11:11 and All the Broken Hearts.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Sophie Linder-Lee
TRAINING Performers College, Essex.
THEATRE includes Magic Mike in London; Muriel’s Wedding at Curve Leicester; Wicked and Mamma Mia! in the West End; The Rocky Horror Show at Oxford Playhouse and on Italian tour; The Biograph Girl (as Mary Pickford) at the Finborough, and Big Fish the Musical at The Other Palace.
TELEVISION includes The Royal Variety Performance, Slammer, and Top of the Pops.
FILM includes Rocky Horror Live!.
SEPTEMBER 2025