Sydney Theatre Company’s Dracula Is Going to the West End With Cynthia Erivo

Everything’s coming up Kip.

Former Sydney Theatre Company artistic director Kip Williams is going from strength to strength with his gothic cine-theatre trilogy: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula.

Yesterday, it was announced that Dracula, which premiered in Sydney last year, was making the move to London’s West End with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo set to play all 23 characters.

Erivo is a Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner, as well as a three-time Oscar nominee. This will be Erivo’s first stage performance in nearly a decade, with rehearsals starting directly after the release of Wicked: For Good in November.

In a statement Erivo said: “Returning to the stage feels like a homecoming, one that I’ve been craving for a long time. … From the moment I was asked, I could not get the role out of my mind. Kip’s vision is thrilling, terrifying, and deeply resonant, offering a chance to sit with not only the darkness in the world, but also the light we fight to hold onto. It’s a rare gift for an actor to inhabit so many voices and perspectives in one piece, and I’m honoured to do it for West End audiences in this extraordinary production. The prospect of doing this show scares me and I know it will be a huge challenge. This show will ask everything of me – and I’m ready to give it.”

Echoing Erivo, Williams said, “I am thrilled to be returning to the West End… I am excited to reunite with many of my Dorian Gray collaborators on this project, and it is an immense privilege to have such a singularly gifted artist as Cynthia at the heart of it. I can’t wait to share this piece with London audiences, especially in the West End, a place where Bram [Stoker] spent so much of his creative life.”

Tony-nominated members of Williams’s creative team – Marg Horwell, Nick Schlieper and Clemence Williams – will work on the production alongside sound designer Jessica Dunn, video designer Craig Wilkinson and dramaturg Zahra Newman, who starred in the Australian production.

This is the second of Williams’s gothic productions to make the move from Australia to the West End. The Picture of Dorian Gray ’s London production, starring Aussie Succession star Sarah Snook, won two Olivier Awards before moving to Broadway, where it was recently nominated for six Tony awards.

Performances of Kip Williams’s Dracula starring Cynthia Erivo begin on February 4, 2026 at the Noël Coward Theatre

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