Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods transfers to the West End this Autumn
Jordan Fein’s production opens at the Noël Coward Theatre, 22 September 2026 – 9 January 2027.
Tickets are on sale intothewoodsonstage.com.
Into The Woods is currently playing at Bridge Theatre until 30 May 2026.
Find out more about the current production of Into the Woods
The Cast
Kate Fleetwood will reprise her celebrated performance as the Witch. Full cast for the West End transfer will be announced shortly.
The Show
Why would you go into the woods?
To sell the cow, to visit mother, to see the king, to lift the spell?
In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s dazzling musical, the Baker, the Baker’s Wife, the Witch, Jack, Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella and Rapunzel take us beyond happy ever after to discover what really matters.
Sondheim and Lapine’s second collaboration after Sunday in the Park with George brilliantly weaves together four Grimms’ fairy tales. On its Broadway debut in 1986, Into The Woods won Tony Awards each for Sondheim (Best Original Score) and Lapine (Best Book). In London it has had productions by Richard Jones (Phoenix Theatre, 1990), John Crowley (Donmar, 1998) and Timothy Sheader (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, 2010). This is its first major London production since 2016.
Access Performances
Audio Described Performance: Friday 9 October 2026 7.30pm
Captioned Performance: Monday 9 November 7.30pm
Creative Team
Director: Jordan Fein
Set and Costume Designer: Tom Scutt
Musical Supervisor and Musical Director: Mark Aspinall
Orchestrations by: Jonathan Tunick
Sound Designer: Adam Fisher
Lighting Designer: Aideen Malone
Video Designer: Roland Horvath
Movement Director: Jenny Ogilvie
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer: Sam Cox
Puppetry Design: Cheryl ‘Chuck’ Brown, Max Humphries & Tom Scutt
Casting Director: Stuart Burt CDG CSA
Production Manager: Chris Hay
Associate Director: Georgia Green
Scenic Associate: David Allen
Associate Musical Director: Alex Beetschen
Associate Sound Designer: Ollie Durrant
Associate Lighting Designer: Lucy Adams
Associate Costume Designer & Costume Supervisor: Lucy Martin
Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Supervisor: Charlie Watson
Props Supervisors: Jonathan Hall & Chris Marcus for Marcus Hall Props
Orchestral Management: Andy Barnwell & Rich Weeden for BW Musicians
Kate Fleetwood (the Witch)
Her theatre work includes My Master Builder (Wyndham’s Theatre), A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket), 101 Dalmatians (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Absolute Hell, Ugly Lies the Bone, King Lear, London Road – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre), Bug (Found111), Medea (Almeida Theatre), High Society (The Old Vic), Life is a Dream, Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse), Macbeth – Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Broadway), Twelfth Night (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Pericles (RSC), Othello (Northampton Theatre Royal), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic). For television, her work includes 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, Sarah Jane Adventures, Hustle and After Thomas; and for film, 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.
