HAMILTON the Musical at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre
April 28, 2026
Adapted and directed by Robert Icke, the production opens at the Adelphi Theatre from 14 October 2026 – 9 January 2027.
Listening changes everything.
1984. East Germany. A writer and an actor are placed under state surveillance. From the attic above their apartment, their Stasi man listens for evidence of subversion. But to observe a life is to risk changing your own.
Starring Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley, Emmy Award winner Stephen Dillane and Olivier Award nominee Luke Thompson, The Lives of Others plays at the Adelphi Theatre for a strictly limited run.
Full cast will be announced shortly.
Written and directed by Olivier Award-winner Robert Icke and based on the Oscar-winning 2007 film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , this electrifying adaptation explores artistic censorship, state surveillance and the relationship between art and politics.
Set and Costume Designer: Hildegard Bechtler
Lighting Designer: Jon Clark
Sound Designer: Giles Thomas
Original Music by Max Richter
Casting: Julia Horan CDG
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others German language film was released in 2006. It won numerous awards including the Oscar for Best International Film, the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language, the Caesar for Best Foreign Film, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film, the New York and LA Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Foreign Film, the British Independent Film Award for Best International Independent Film, and the European and German Film Awards for Best Film.
Captioned 7 November at 2.30pm
Signed 14 November at 2.30pm
Audio Described 5 December at 2.30pm
Keira’s theatre work includes:
The Children’s Hour and The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre)
Stephen’s theatre work includes:
How It Is (Parts One & Two), When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, An Oak Tree, The Coast of Utopia, Angels in America (Parts 1 & 2), A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Dancing at Lughnasa (National Theatre)
Faith Healer, Endgame, The Real Thing (Donmar Warehouse)
The Master Builder, Macbeth (Almeida Theatre)
A Thought in Three Parts, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Our Late Night, Hush (Royal Court Theatre)
Uncle Vanya (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Hurlyburly (The Old Vic Theatre)
Hamlet (Gielgud Theatre).
Luke’s theatre work includes:
An Oak Tree (Young Vic)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC)
A Little Life (Harold Pinter Theatre and Savoy Theatre)
King Lear (Duke of York’s Theatre)
Hamlet (Almeida Theatre and Harold Pinter Theatre)
Oresteia (Almeida Theatre and Trafalgar Studios)
Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Robert’s recent work includes Romeo & Juliet (Harold Pinter Theatre), Manhunt (Royal Court Theatre) and Player Kings, which ran in the West End, starring Ian McKellen as Sir John Falstaff.
In six years at the Almeida Theatre, he made eight productions: five transferred to the West End, and four to New York. These included his adaptations of The Wild Duck, Mary Stuart (also West End), Uncle Vanya, Oresteia (also West End; Schauspiel Stuttgart; Park Avenue Armory), and 1984 (co-created with Duncan Macmillan, also Broadway; West End; national and international tours).
