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‍“the finest play of the year!” — The Wall Street Journal

“charming, penetrating, deeply moving” — The New York Sun

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Inspired in part by true events, The Wanderers makes its highly anticipated London premiere, following critically acclaimed, sold-out performances in New York  and across the US.

‍An unexpected email from a Hollywood star.

A marriage under pressure.
  
A life beginning to unravel.

‍‍Abe is a prizewinning novelist attempting to capture his family’s untold history. But when famous actress Julia Cheever begins writing to him, their electric correspondence starts to threaten his focus — and the very foundations of his marriage to Sophie, a fellow writer and tortured artist.

The play also tells the story of Schmuli and Esther – newly married, young and idealistic – caught between tradition and yearning.  Despite how different their marriage seems from Sophie and Abe’s, it too becomes a portrait of struggle and mismatched expectations. In the convergence of these two stories, the play reveals the fragility of the ties that bind us — and asks:  

Can we ever escape the stories we’ve inherited,
or do we lose ourselves in the fictions  
of those who love us most?

‍Award-winning director Igor Golyak, winner of four Off Broadway awards for Our Class, presents Anna Ziegler’s acclaimed play with thrilling theatricality, wit and poetry.

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“As perfect a piece of theatre as I’ve seen in many years… Go see this show. It’s magnificent.”

— DC Theatre Scene

“Worth seeing twice, with a plot to ruminate on for a lifetime.”‍

— Washington City Paper

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Writer Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been staged around the world, from New York to London to Tokyo. She is best known for Photograph 51, which starred Nicole Kidman in the West End and won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Play. She is currently adapting the play for film, to be directed by Tom Hooper.

Ziegler’s acclaimed body of work includes Actually (Los Angeles Ovation Award for Playwriting), Boy (NY Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Janeiad (2025 Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, 2025 Steinberg Award citation), and The Wanderers, which received the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play when it premiered at The Old Globe, before it went on to be produced around the country and at Roundabout Theatre Company.

Director Igor Golyak is a Ukrainian-born, award-winning director and founder of -Arlekin! and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Theater Lab. A bold innovator in hybrid and virtual theatre, his acclaimed 2024 production of Our Class at BAM won four Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Director. Other notable works include The Orchard starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht Off-Broadway, The Merchant of Venice at Classic Stage Company, and the US premiere of The Dybbuk.

A graduate of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and the Schukin Theatre Institute, Golyak has directed and taught internationally. His company -Arlekin!, formed of immigrant artists, has performed across the US, UK, and Europe. He is the founder of the #ArtistsforUkraine initiative.

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Age Recommendation: 12 +

Running Time: TBC

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