To Kill a Mockingbird to return to the West End – with lead casting revealed

To Kill a Mockingbird will be returning to the West End after its ongoing tour.

Directed by Bartlett Sher (The King and I), Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s seminal text was seen in the West End in 2022, going on to run until the summer of 2023. It then kicked off a tour in Leeds in September, with the show currently in Dublin.

It was nominated for nine Tony Awards when it was first seen on Broadway, winning one.

Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, published in 1960, explores racial injustice in America and features one of the most iconic characters in literary history – small-town lawyer Atticus Finch.

A new West End season will now run from 25 June to 12 September at Wyndham’s Theatre on Charing Cross Road. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

The tour, led by Richard Coyle as Atticus Finch, will also be visiting the Grand Opera House in Belfast (24 February to 7 March 2026), Theatre Royal Plymouth (10 to 14 March 2026), Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury (17 to 21 March 2026), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (24 to 28 March 2026), Birmingham Hippodrome (14 to 18 April 2026), Theatre Royal Newcastle (21 to 25 April 2026), Theatre Royal Norwich (28 April to 2 May 2026), Empire Theatre, Liverpool (12 to 16 May 2026), and Milton Keynes Theatre (19 to 23 May 2026).

Coyle will return to the show for its London run, with further casting for the West End run will be revealed in due course.

The creative team for To Kill a Mockingbird is completed by Louisa Muller (associate director), Miriam Buether (set designer), Ed Pierce (design supervisor), Ann Roth (costume designer), Jennifer Tipton (lighting designer), Scott Lehrer (sound designer), Adam Guettel (original score), Kimberley Grigsby (musical supervisor), Serena Hill (casting director), Campbell Young Associates (hair and wigs designer), Laurence Belcher (resident director), and Tavia Jefferson (cultural coordinator).