Key Highlights
- He called the version, written by Joel Horwood and Maria Aberg, “electric, glamorous, deeply romantic, utterly heartbreaking, and its profound insight into the past couldn’t be more relevant to our current tumultuous 2020s.” Related Stories News Breaking Baz: Beloved 'Billy Elliot' Musical Returning To London's West End In 2027 For First Time In Eleven Years: "It Still Has Legs," Says Stephen Daldry News 'The Lincoln Lawyer' Achieves Audience Growth With Season 4 Debut; 'Bridgerton' Season 4A Leads Netflix Top 10 Again Producers hope to line up a theater for the production, directed by Michael Longhurst, a former artistic chief of the Donmar Warehouse, to begin performances in the fall.
- Watch on Deadline Once a West End house is confirmed, further casting can begin.
- Page and Longhurst go way back.
- The thespian’s first professional role out of drama school was in a revival of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys that Longhurst directed at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre.
- When he first read the Horwood and Aberg take on The Great Gatsby, Page said he was “struck by how it unlocked the complex nuances of the book, in ways I’d just never thought possible on stage.
