Peter Shaffer’s multi-award-winning masterpiece Amadeus returns to the West End for a strictly limited season, with Michael Sheen as the court composer Antonio Salieri and Callum Scott Howells as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Directed by Olivier Award winner Jeremy Herrin, with set design by Bunny Christie and costumes by Lez Brotherston, it plays the Noël Coward Theatre from April 2027.
Vienna is a city that prizes order, taste and hard-won reputation, and no one embodies those values more completely than Salieri. Pious and admired, he believes his devotion has earned him God’s favour, until a vulgar, impossibly gifted young prodigy arrives and pours out music of such aching beauty that Salieri can only hear it as proof that heaven has passed him over. What follows is not a duel of equals but the slow poisoning of a soul, as worship curdles into envy and envy hardens into a quiet, ruinous war.
Why it’s worth the watch
One of the twentieth century’s finest dramas, reborn with a starry pairing.
- Michael Sheen leads. The acclaimed stage and screen star returns to the West End as Salieri, one of modern theatre’s great roles.
- Callum Scott Howells as Mozart. The It’s A Sin and Cabaret star takes on the giggling, ungovernable genius.
- A landmark revival. The first major London staging of Peter Shaffer’s play in over a decade.
- An award-winning creative team. Directed by Jeremy Herrin, designed by Bunny Christie, with costumes by Lez Brotherston.
- Strictly limited. A short West End season at the intimate Noël Coward Theatre from April 2027.
